On Any Given Sunday
A Life of Bert Bell
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.
Published:15th Nov '09
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Bert Bell, a native of Philadelphia, has been called the most powerful executive figure in the history of professional football. This biography recounts the remarkable story of how de Benneville 'Bert' Bell rejected the gentility of a high society lifestyle in favor of the tougher gridiron and rose to become the founder of the Philadelphia Eagles.The first biography ever written about the man who some considered the greatest commissioner in the history of professional sports
"Robert S. Lyons' flavorful biography captures the blustery and paternalistic Bell, portraying him as a man who worked relentlessly to keep the NFL alive and push it to thrive....[T]he book is worth reading. One has to appreciate the long string of anecdotes and colorful details Lyons has dug up. Who knew, for instance, that Bell would calm tempers at owners' meetings by taking out his false teeth and putting them in his water glass? More important, no book has detailed Bell's contributions to the NFL so thoroughly."
—Philadelphia Inquirer
"I know the book well. It's a terrific book."
— NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, as heard on The Sal Paolantonio Show (ESPN)
ISBN: 9781592137312
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
Weight: unknown
352 pages