For the Love of the Game: Four Decades Inside the NFL – Nonfiction

Peter King’s The Game offers a portrait of the modern National Football League in all its messy, gridiron glory. Drawing on his insider knowledge of history, impeccable reporting, and an eye for a vivid anecdote, King traces the league’s evolution from the mid-1980s, when it went head-to-head with baseball in popularity, to the present, as America’s dominant sports entertainment machine. King is joined by ESPN senior writer Don Van Natta. Buy The Game