{"id":55749,"date":"2025-03-18T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=55749"},"modified":"2025-02-24T12:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:57:56","slug":"why-we-love-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/why-we-love-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Love Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Why We Love Football<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is so much more than a compilation of great plays in no particular order.\u00a0 \u00a0Hard to accept, but in some ways, this product is superior to mere screen viewing.\u00a0 In fact, you probably saw half of these historic moments live without knowing what lie behind those X’s and O’s.\u00a0 There\u2019s \u201cThe Catch\u201d, the \u201cHelmet Catch\u201d, and the \u201cImmaculate Reception\u201d.\u00a0 As this work makes clear, you only viewed the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n

Posnanski frames each of these iconic football moments within their proper historical context, teaching us about all the principal characters involved and their formative influences.\u00a0 Where did these scrappy upstarts come from?\u00a0 What propelled them to that moment?\u00a0 What formidable odds were they up against? \u00a0\u00a0More than once I had to log into Youtube to see them again with fresh eyes.\u00a0 Give it a shot, what else are you doing between now and the draft?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why We Love Football is so much more than a compilation of great plays in no particular order.\u00a0 \u00a0Hard to accept, but in some ways, this product is superior to mere screen viewing.\u00a0 In fact, you probably saw half of these historic moments live without knowing what lie behind those[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[9880,676,9879],"class_list":["post-55749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-joe-posnanski","tag-nonfiction","tag-why-we-love-football"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-evb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55798,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55749\/revisions\/55798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}