Football for a Buck by Jeff Pearlman

Football for a Buck by Jeff Pearlman

From Jeff Pearlman--the New York Times best-selling author of Three Ring Circus--comes the rollicking, outrageous story of the USFL, full of larger-than-life characters and you-can't-make-this-up stories featuring some of the biggest celebrities and buffoons in the game.

The United States Football League--known fondly to millions of sports fans as the USFL--did not merely challenge the NFL, but cause its owners and executives to collectively shudder. In its three seasons from 1983-85, it secured multiple television deals, drew millions of fans and launched the careers of legends such as Steve Young, Jim Kelly, Herschel Walker, and Reggie White. But then it died beneath the weight of a particularly egotistical and bombastic team owner--a New York businessman named Donald J. Trump.

In Football for a Buck, Jeff Pearlman draws on more than four hundred interviews to unearth all the salty, untold stories of one of the craziest sports entities to have ever captivated America. From 1980s drug excess to airplane brawls and player-coach punch outs, to backroom business deals and some of the most enthralling and revolutionary football ever seen, Pearlman transports readers back in time to this crazy, boozy, audacious, unforgettable era of the game. He shows how fortunes were made and lost on the backs of professional athletes and how, forty years ago, Trump was already a scoundrel and a spoiler.

For fans of Terry Pluto's Loose Balls or Jim Bouton's Ball Four and of course Pearlman's own stranger-than-fiction narratives, Football for a Buck is sports as high entertainment--and a cautionary tale of the dangers of ego and excess.

JEFF PEARLMAN is the author of eight New York Times best-selling books, including Football for a Buck, The Bad Guys Won!, and The Good Guys Won! He and his wife Catherine, as well as their children Casey and Emmett, live in Southern California. Jeff Pearlman is the host of the podcast Two Writers Slinging Yang and writes a regular blog at jeffpearlman.com.

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ISBN 13	9780358118114
ISBN 10	0358118115
Title	Football for a Buck
Author	Jeff Pearlman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Mariner Books
Year published	2019-09-10
Number of pages	400
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.