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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Football (2nd Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Joe Theismann, Brian Tarcy
Publisher: Alpha
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 93692
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0028641671
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332
UPC: 021898641670
EAN: 9780028641676
ASIN: 0028641671
Publication Date: June 2001
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Product Description
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Football, Second Edition, provides new and intermediate football fans with all the information they need to understand and enjoy football. From high school to the NFL, coverage includes the basics of offense and defense, players, rules, strategies and even what to wear! New coverage for this edition includes: the draft - how it works for teams and players including parity, new technology on the field including instant replay, dangerous referee flags and rules changes for college and pro ball, XFL, arena league, expansion teams and NFL Europe, and the changing business and team strategy for professional football today.
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 Great book for someone who knows nothing about football. February 19, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book has helped me a lot. I did know some things, but it was extremely helpful to me.
 not for the beginner September 23, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I knew a little about football to begin with so the first part of the book was helpful, but the rest of the book got too technical, completely lost me. If you know nothing of the game the first part might even be a challenge.
 Great Book March 23, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love football and i know some things about this sport, but this guide gives you a complete step by step explanation.
Great for all fans
Good for football culture, kinda weak and jargony on actual rules August 20, 2005
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
I like the straightforwardness of the writing, and the insight into the appeal of the game. Alas, if you're an outsider hoping to learn the game from scratch, you're going to have a lot of trouble--after teaching you rudimentary terms, the writers start describing the game as if you've been watching it all your life, tossing barely-introduced jargon around all over the place. I was really disappointed that the one aspect of the game I was most interested in (the actual GAME) was so poorly rendered.
You will know football even though you are not an American January 30, 2005
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I'm a Chinese girl and never watched any American football games in Hong Kong until I married to an American and moved to United States one and half years ago. He is a football fan and he keeps track his team every day, not to mention especially during the regular season every Sunday.
I started to watch football games with him, and I liked it a lot. Now, I understand why so many American like football. I asked many questions while I was watching the game, because I wanted to understand it more. Therefore, I read this book last year and it gave me a lot of basic information in an easy way. More interesting is the book gives many statistics and facts that I was impressed by the football business. Anyone has no idea about football, this book can help.
Now, my husband was surprised that I knew football so well and we discussed football a lot during the regular season this year. This book helps us to have more conversation topics.
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