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The ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia First Edition (ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia)
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Rating:  - Great information
I bought this book for my husband and I use it more than him!
The only downfall is that there is that you have to pay for more books to keep up with current information. There should be a supplemental book or cd we can purchase after every season.
Rating: - Must Have
If you like to read about Football History then this is the book for you teams Like The Brooklyn Lions and Brooklyn Dodgers Kanas City Cowboys are all in here every player every to play a game is also in here if you are a football historial or just like to read about football history and stats you would be cheating yourself by not buying this book so put this one in your shopping cart and order right away choose next day air and have fun reading
Rating: - The ESPN PRO FOOTBALL ENCYCLOPEDIA EDITION
I bought this as a gift for my husband.he absolutely loved it.If you think you know someone who knows everything about football, you have to buy him this book.
Rating: - A must have for any NFL fan!
Everything you ever wanted to know about the NFL. This book has every stat imaginable. I also have the older TOTAL FOOTBALL and this is a different book but very similar. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Rating:  - Would be 5 stars except for some errors I found
I have been interested in pro football stats since the late 1950s, so I ordered this new encyclopedia immediately (I have all the other ones referred to in this one). And as the authors said might might happen, once I got the book yesterday, I was up until the wee hours of the morning perusing it!
Physically, though a large paperback, this book opens flat nicely on a table. I found the format in which the stats were presented to be fine with me. Only stats and info for the NFL, AAFC, and the 1960 AFL are in the book. There was very useful info I hadn't seen in other encyclopedias, such as starters by position. However, there were no fuller team rosters, so it's still Neft et. al. for that. I also liked the scores of games being given by quarters.
I was really excited when I realized that game-by-game outstanding performances (100 yard rushing and receiving performances, and 300 yard--somewhat less in early seasons--passing performances) were presented starting in 1932 in the scores section. However, it was at this point that I began to notice editing errors, relating mostly to what team a player performed for. For example, Cliff Battles' 100 yd rushing day of Oct 1, 1933 is said to have occured while he played for the Chicago Cardinals! In 1934, a similar performance is attributed to his stint with the Detroit Lions! And all the outstanding performances for the LA Rams from 1946-49 are said to have occurred on the very same day and for the very same player(s) while they were playing for the LA Dons (e.g. Bob Waterfield threw for 312 yards for both teams on Dec 1, 1946). For the years prior to 1950, I found innumerable such errors, though nothing jumped out at me from 1950 on.
Some other errors I spotted are: the attribution of Johnny Strzykalski's season rushing stats to one Bob Steuber, a little used sub for the LA Dons, in the rankings for the 1947 season; the incorrect boldfacing of Jim Brown's long gain of 1964 as the NFL's longest, while his long gain of 1965, which did lead the NFL, is not boldfaced; and, in the season summary for 1933, the implication that there were no blacks in the NFL that year, when of course Joe Lillard was still playing and even gained 373 yards on 119 carries.
I found some of the adjusted stats interesting, but also quirky. For example, since 40 yards per interception are subtracted from passers "Total Adjusted Yards", George Blanda ended up contributing an adjusted NEGATIVE 134 yards to the Houston Oilers in 1962! He wasn't the only QB in that fix.
The intro to the book indicates that an update is to be published every year. If so, I hope the book is proofed again, and these and other errors are corrected. Then it will be on its way to a 5-star rank!
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