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Title: Total Football: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League (1st Ed) by Bob Carroll, Michael Gershman, David Neft, John Thorn ISBN: 0-06-270170-3 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.96 (23 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Must Have for Football Fans
Comment: This book is a must have for all serious football fans. It is the most complete one volume source of information about professional football.
My favorite sections include:
History of the game: The introductory essays on the history of pro football and the complete histories of each team is fascinating and an important context for many of the conventions and the culture of today's game.
History of players: Not only is there a complete roster of every player who has ever played in the National Football
League and it's antecedents, there are more detailed biographies of the "500 greatest players" as determined by the panel of writers responsible for this encyclopedia.
Complete game summaries of and statistics for all the playoffs, Super Bowls, and most important games in league history: I personally found this the most nostalgic reading, as I could remember where I was and who I was watching the playoffs and Super Bowls with.
And much, much more -- some more mundane (essays on player equipment) and some more interesting (history of defunct leagues like the United States Football League (USFL)).
I do have two complaints about the encyclopedia -- one minor and one a glaring omission.
My minor complaint is that they need a better copy editor. I found many typos, especially the detailed information about playoffs and Super Bowls.
My major complaint is that is has a woefully incomplete section detailing the individual records (most rushing yards in a game, etc.) which is a terrible omission. I can find a more complete listing of individual and team records in a sports almanac. A book purporting to be TOTAL FOOTBALL shouldn't need a companion book to round it out and have all the facts one might want at hand. I strongly recommend they improve on this in the next volume.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very, Very Good, But Not Great...
Comment: Being an avid Football fan, Total Football is a dream come true. It gives me fast reference to players and their statistics, positions, high schools, and even hometowns. However, there is one glitch that keeps popping up. After referencing through the book many times, i finally realized that a player must have played in a game in order to have been given credit for being involved in football that year. Therefore, a player could have been not played in a game, or sat out the season on injured reserve, and the book does not give him credit for playing at all. If a player was on a team's roster, but missed the year because of an injury, that should be noted. With the way Total Football is, I wouldn't know if a player was injured for the year, on the roster but didn't see action, or just sat out the year. To me, that's a big deal.
Rating: 5
Summary: Some people want magic
Comment: For those of you who are looking for every NFL player - even those who never played a game - I suggest rubbing a magic genie, because that'll be the only way you'll find that information. It simply doesn't exist. While some bellyache that the statistical information isn't organized and re-printed 30 different times in every discernable way, they don't understand that this book is almost 2000 pages long. Repeating all of that information AGAIN would involve hundreds, if not thousands, of additional page. Total Football II is by far and away the most complete statistical reference there ever was. No, there are no indexes of high schools or longest punt returns or pre-season, third-stringer touchdown records, but please! This book contains every important stat available. The articles are written by people with centuries of cumulative years of experience covering and writing about the NFL. Even though your favorite game may not be listed, I can assure you that you probably haven't seen as many as the great writers who created this book did. Keep that in mind before you criticize them for not including Billie Joe Tolliver in their 300 greatest players segment.
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Title: Official 2003 National Football League Record & Fact Book (Official National Football League Record and Fact Book) by NFL, National Football League ISBN: 0761131485 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Official NFL 2002 Record & Fact Book by National Football League ISBN: 0761126430 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Hockey League by Dan Diamond, James Duplacey, Ralph Dinger, Igor Kuperman, Eric Zweig, Ernie Fitzsimmons ISBN: 189212985X Publisher: Total Sports Pub. Date: 30 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia (3rd Edition) by Michael Jordan, David J. Stern ISBN: 0385501307 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 17 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Pro Football Guide 2003 : The Ultimate 2003 Season Reference by Sporting News ISBN: 0892047070 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Distributed Products Pub. Date: 13 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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