While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Nfl books.
- Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times (2019)
- The NFL: Critical and Cultural Perspectives (Sporting) (2015)
- Is There Life After Football?: Surviving the NFL (2016)
- The NFL’s Greatest Day: Roger Staubach, Franco Harris and the Story of Immaculate Saturday (2019)
- Warren Sharp’s 2019 Football Preview (2019)
- Brand NFL: Making and Selling America’s Favorite Sport (2010)
- My Life on the Line: How the NFL Damn Near Killed Me and Ended Up Saving My Life (2019)
- Week One NFL Winners: A Football Handicapping Book (Sports Betting 2019) (2018)
- Football Outsiders Almanac 2019: The Essential Guide to the 2019 NFL and College Football Seasons (2019)
- ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL 2019 (2019)
- Picking NFL Winners: A Statistical Handicapping Primer (2018)
- The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football’s Most Important Decade (2016)
Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times (2019)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Town, an equally merciless probing of America’s biggest cultural force, pro football, at a moment of peak success and high anxietyLike millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life tuned into pro football than he’d care to admit. Being a lifelong New England Patriots fan meant growing up on a steady diet of lovable loserdom.
The NFL: Critical and Cultural Perspectives (Sporting) (2015)
The National Football League is one of the most significant cultural engines in contemporary American life. Yet despite intense and near ubiquitous media coverage, commentators rarely turn a critical lens on the league to ask what material and social forces have contributed to its success, and how the NFL has influenced public life in the United States.
Is There Life After Football?: Surviving the NFL (2016)
2016 Best Book Award, North American Society for the Sociology of SportIs There Life After Football?draws upon the experiences of hundreds of former players as they describe their lives playing the sport and after their football days are over. The “bubble”-like conditions of privilege that NFL players experience while playing, often leave players unprepared for the real world once they retire and must manage their own lives.
The NFL’s Greatest Day: Roger Staubach, Franco Harris and the Story of Immaculate Saturday (2019)
A tight, dramatic NFL playoff game is exciting on its own, but two of the most dramatic in the same afternoon might result in the most compelling day in football history. This book is the first to capture the excitement and tension of December 23, 1972, when Pittsburgh played Oakland and Dallas met San Francisco in a pair of first-round playoff games that captivated millions.
Warren Sharp’s 2019 Football Preview (2019)
*Simply the best analytical 2019 football preview you can buy*Welcome to previewing the NFL through a lens you’ve never witnessed before. Warren Sharp’s 259-page full color 2019 Football Preview is unlike anything you have seen before.
Brand NFL: Making and Selling America’s Favorite Sport (2010)
Professional football today is an $8 billion sports entertainment industry–and the most popular spectator sport in America, with designs on expansion across the globe. In this astute field-level view of the National Football League since 1960, Michael Oriard looks closely at the development of the sport and at the image of the NFL and its unique place in American life.
My Life on the Line: How the NFL Damn Near Killed Me and Ended Up Saving My Life (2019)
“O’Callaghan came out as gay in 2017 after retiring from the league in 2011. Fearing condemnation while hiding his sexual orientation during a football career that spanned six seasons, O’Callaghan said he had regular suicidal thoughts while growing addicted to painkillers and he had elaborately planned his own death for retirement. In My Life On the Line, co-authored by Outsports co-founder Cyd Zeigler, O’Callaghancredits then-Kansas City Chiefs executive Scott Pioli and Dr.
Week One NFL Winners: A Football Handicapping Book (Sports Betting 2019) (2018)
The games outlined in this book hit 58% winners in Week One this year, including a +200 money line with the Tennessee Titans. I am beyond proud to report that one reader of last year’s edition of this book won $215,000 in the prestigious Westgate SuperContest. Another reader won close to $50,000. That’s a lot of money for picking winners in football. And here’s even better news: You can do the same.
Football Outsiders Almanac 2019: The Essential Guide to the 2019 NFL and College Football Seasons (2019)
The most authoritative and innovative annual guide to both the NFL and college football is back for an all-new season with more cutting-edge statistical analysis, obsessive film study, and trademark humor. Includes comprehensive coverage of all 32 NFL teams, analysis of offseason personnel changes, over 500 KUBIAK fantasy football projections, and breakdowns of the top 50 college football teams for 2019.
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL 2019 (2019)
If you love football, this handy guide is for you! Inside you’ll find week-by-week schedules for the entire 2019 season, team schedules for all 32 teams, and a play-offs section so you can track every game from Wild Card weekend through the Super Bowl. Also includes tons of useful information, such as every team’s head coach, every team’s first round draft pick from this year’s draft, and a recap of how the 2018 season ended and where that puts each team as we head into the 2019 season.
Picking NFL Winners: A Statistical Handicapping Primer (2018)
Every year, sports bettors around the world wager billions of dollars on the NFL. But only a small fraction win.
The NFL in the 1970s: Pro Football’s Most Important Decade (2016)
The 1970 merger between the American Football League and the National Football League laid the foundation for a stronger brand of gridiron competition, providing a new level of excitement for fans. This book examines each year of the NFL’s pivotal decade in detail, covering the great names, great rivalries and great games, as well as the key changes in both strategy and rules.
Best Nfl Books Worth Your Attention
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Aaron Hernandez’s Killing Fields: Exposing Untold Murders, Violence, Cover-Ups, and the NFL’s Shocking Code of Silence
Author(s): Dylan Howard
ID: 2445760, Publisher: Front Page Detectives, Year: 5 Nov 2019, Size: 5 Mb, Format: epub
Freezing Cold Takes: NFL: Football Media's Most Inaccurate Predictions--And the Fascinating Stories Behind Them
Author(s): Fred Segal
ID: 3382559, Publisher: Running Press Adult, Year: 2022, Size: 6 Mb, Format: epub
Freezing Cold Takes: NFL: Football Media's Most Inaccurate Predictions—and the Fascinating Stories Behind Them
Author(s): Fred Segal
ID: 3409716, Publisher: Running Press, Year: 2022, Size: 6 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not errorless. Some books are absolutely record-breakers according to Los Angeles Times, others are drafted by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.