Sunday's Heroes : NFL Legends Talk About the Times of Their Lives

Sunday's Heroes was born out of Whittingham's many years of researching the league and its history. His work culls together the best first-person stories from the greatest players to ever take the field. Regardless of your favorite team, player or era, Sunday's Heroes has the stories you want to hear from the players you either love or love to hate.

Dating back to its inception in 1920, the National Football League was built on and by players who loved the game of football, who had incredible pride in the game they played, and whose intensity often accompanied them off the football field. Though the league and the game have undergone many changes in the past nine decades, much has also remained the same about the people who play it -- the heroes. In Sunday's Heroes: NFL Legends Talk About the Times of Their Lives, Richard Whittingham allows us to relive great moments in NFL history through the words and stories of the heroes who lived them. From Jim Thorpe to Jim Brown, Johnny Unitas to John Elway, Sunday's Heroes puts us in the huddle with the greatest players of all time, and shares some of the best football stories the NFL has to offer.

A fascinating history of the National Football League chronicles more than eighty seasons on the field in a collection of first-person anecdotes, vignettes, stories, and recollections--by George Halas, Art Rooney, John Unitas, Dick Butkus, Jim Thorpe, and other legends--accompanied by archival action photographs. When the National Football League was founded in 1920, the Bears were in Decatur, Illinois (and known as the Staleys), and the Cardinals were in Chicago-they were the only franchises that remain in the league today. More than eighty seasons of National Football League history are chronicled in a collection of first-person anecdotes, vignettes, stories, and recollections by some of football's greatest legends