Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. 1920–1959: Before They Were Called “Preseason Games”
2. 1960: A First for Almost Everything
3. 1961: Confronting the Segregated South
4. 1962: Experiments in Atlanta, Fort Worth, and Cleveland
5. 1963: Kickers and Paper Lions
6. 1964: A Soccer Player Changes American Football
7. 1965: AFL versus NFL, NBC versus CBS
8. 1966: Last Chance to Get in on the Merger
9. 1967: The Summer of Upsets
10. 1968: Don’t Call Them “Exhibitions”
11. 1969: A Final Summer for the AFL
12. 1970: One League, Twenty-Six Teams, One Strange Summer
13. 1971: New Stadiums, New England
14. 1972: Too Many Injuries
15. 1973: Playing for Kicks
16. 1974: New Rules, New Competition; No Freedom, No Football
17. 1975: Work Stoppages and Walkouts
18. 1976: A Surfeit of Preseason
19. 1977: No More Barnstorming
20. 1978: Out with Six and Fourteen, in with Four and Sixteen
21. 1979: Reconfiguring for the 1980s
22. 1980: Raiders on the Move
23. 1981: Raiders Staying Put
24. 1982: Solidarity Handshakes
25. 1983: Taking the Show to England
26. 1984: The “No Fun League”
27. 1985: On the Threshold of a New Era
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the Author

Mark L. Ford is assistant editor of the Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA) and President of the Eastern Broadcasting Company. He is a frequent contributor to Coffin Corner, journal of the PFRA.