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Summary: A must have
Review: This book is a must have for any football/sports fan. More info then you could imagine. This book has helped me sleep numerous times. For instance, when you just can't remember some guys name, or what team he played for, or what round he was drafted in etc., and it's driving you nuts because you can't remember: Total Football II has the answer. The only thing that kept this book from being five stars in my opinion was it needed more info (rosters/etc.) on the "other" leagues (usfl,etc.). Again, a must have for any sports fan.
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Summary: A book every football fanatic MUST have
Review: This book is A must to every football fanatics collection. Together with the NFL Record and Fact book, no football question you have will ever go unanswered.
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Summary: An alright book!
Review: This book was alright. Some of the words I couldn't understand. Words like roughing the passer. I believe that if someone has the ball they should know that they are going to get smashed!
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Summary: Stick to the facts
Review: This is a reference book, and a darn good one, but they could have trimmed a couple of hundred pages of heft by leaving out the a lot of the subjective content. For example their list of the best 300 players of all time is pure opinion, albiet educated opinion. The section on strategy was outdated almost as soon as it was printed. That's a minor complaint, though. I use it extensively in research for the book I'm writing. Its guide to the stadiums that teams have used over the years is by far the best, most complete out there (although, another small criticism, they could have summarized the info in a table for quicker reference) Clearly not for the casual fan, but a great arguement settler for the serious football fan.
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Summary: Crammed with facts, but too facile and sycophantic
Review: This is, as you might expect, an interesting book if you want to settle an argument about which round the 1952 Chicago Bears drafted Tennessee's Andy Kozar in or who was named to the Associated Press All-NFL team in 1985. There aren't that many books around which do that kind of thing, and for that alone, we should be grateful. The non-reference sections, though, leave a lot to be desired, as you might expect from something which purports to be "The Official Encyclopedia of the NFL". It's all very facile and a little too toadying. The USFL, for instance, is written off as "the short-lived spring league with the expensive stars"; the section title "The NFL on TV" is similarly sycophantic (e.g., "If the price for NFL games is high, their appeal as entertainment programming is unmistakable"), and it reveals little more than the names of the original Monday Night Football commentary team (you mean there are people who buy this kind of book that don't know that kind of thing?) and how much each successive TV package was worth. There are also rather superfluous sections on footballers in the movies and Super Bowl television commercials, of all things. In a reference book? I was hoping for season-by-season reviews of each team, and more information about individual regular-season games than just the score. I'd like to know which players were on each team's roster at the start of each season, and which were replacements due to injury, cuts, and so on. Instead I got pages and pages of stuff like "The Best 100 games" and "Top 300 players" sections which weren't at all inspiring - the former because it seems so biased toward the modern (i.e., television) age, and the latter because it seems to serve little purpose other than to invite criticism. Okay, maybe I'm being a little hard on these guys. Upon reflection, though, I'd have preferred an Unofficial Encyclopedia of the NFL. And if Pro Football Weekly really did claim this was "The Best Football Book Ever," then surely they don't have much of a library.
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Summary: Perfect 10! Every fan should own this book
Review: This revision of "Total Football" is amazing! Without a doubt, when i read it, i knew this book should be own by every serious football fan. The analysis, the statistics, and the information provided makes this one of my favorites in my collection.
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Summary: A ton of information
Review: Total Football has a wealth of information that football fans will find delightful. All of that data and detail occupies a lot of space (over 1800 pages). Those pages are in 8 1/2 by 11 inch format and the book weighs about 8 pounds. It is a bit unwieldy to handle and so is somewhat difficult to manage on anything other than a table or desk. I would like to see it published as a two volume set in a smaller and lighter format. Other than that, Total Football II is an absolute pleasure and I recommend it highly.
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Summary: Not What It's Cracked Up To Be
Review: What a poorly written, poorly designed and mistake-filled book. The Player Register is one big mess and incomplete. No information on long gains, blocked punts, times sacked, tackles, etc. The team stats are rudimentary at best (points, rushing and passing only). Next to no information on the playoffs. And the title is a misnomer...Total Football? There is more to football than the NFL.
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