This is a good book for those trying to understand football. My kids enjoyed it and they learned a lot from it. 

Informative, yet doesn't get bogged down with deep details.

My Review: If you have been around my blog or any of my social media for any amount of time you know I am a big football fan. As soon as I could read the names of the teams and write I was making picks with my family. So of course I had to pick this book up and give it a shot. I was very pleasantly surprised with this one, I kind of expected a lot of the same old stats and records that I have found in other books I have read. Instead I found there to be a lot of history and facts that I wasn't aware of and could really appreciate. Even if you are a fan, and have read a lot of books, this would be a good one to add to the shelves, it can be appreciated by some of the youngest and newest fans on up.



My Rating: I was very pleasantly surprised with this book, it gave a lot of information and history that I wasn't aware of and it was in a nice precise manner that made for a quick read and easy to grasp for young fans. I give it a rating of Four Paws!

Football fans will like this book. Because it is not about a specific team, the information will not get outdated quite as quickly as other football books. The history is interesting, yet it doesn’t bog the reader down in details that a middle grade reader would not understand. A teacher could use this to demonstrate text features, as it includes them all.

Living in England and coming into American Football late in life, although I now understand and love how the game is played, I'm aware that there is a whole bunch of history that is missing from my overall education of the sport. Ever since I watched my first game at Wembley (Cowboys @ Jaguars) I've wanted to know more but not really wanted to plough through great tomes or scour the internet to play catch-up. I know I am not really the target audience for this book but, for me, it gave me enough understanding of how the sport developed, how the leagues formed and merged to tick that box for me. It details how the sport has changed through the years, the way it is played, the equipment used, and how certain positions have developed. It also gave me more than enough blasts from the past to add colour to the mix with specific mention to some of the greats of the sport, and I finished the book with a better overall understanding of the players and the game. I even managed to find things in this book that my NFL obsessed brother didn't already know; cue smug grin!
I have already recommended it to quite a few of my peers here in England as a good overall history and background for the sport as I think that this is another audience that it would suit as well as the age group it is advertised for. With the NFL becoming bigger here in the UK there must be plenty of others who would also benefit from this book.
And with the new season looming, reading this book has me chomping at the bit for this year's International Games at Wembley. Roll on October!
My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

This is a fun romp through the formation and history of the NFL, perfect for someone who, like me, loves to try and pretend they understand what's going on during a game. This would certainly grab the attention of the fledgling fan.

I'm a huge football fan and had high hopes for this book, unfortunately it did not live up to them. Rather than an in depth look (perhaps I should have looked at the page count first), this is nothing more than a quick history of the NFL and a look at some high profile players/moments.

Unfortunately glaring errors stand out due to the overall short length - Kurt Warner didn't take three teams to the Super Bowl, he took two: the Rams and the Cardinals. Also he wrote "And in February 2015, Patriots undrafted cornerback Malcolm Butler picked off Seattle's Russell Wilson in the end zone late in Super Bowl XLIX to help New England edge the Seahawks 28-24 in thrilling finish. One year later, backup quarterback Nick Foles led the Philadelphia Eagles to their first Super Bowl win" The Eagles didn't win until 2018.

If not for the errors, I'd say this could be a good introductory book for someone wanting to learn about football, but there isn't anything in here that the casual fan wouldn't already know.