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    Football Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide
    Football Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide
    Football Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide
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    Football Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide

    By Will Graves

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    Nothing brings fans together quite like pro football, a Sunday tradition. Take a front-row seat to everything that makes the NFL great in Football Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNorth Star Editions
    Release dateSep 1, 2018
    ISBN9781634940412
    Football Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide
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    Will Graves

    Will Graves has worked for more than two decades as a sports journalist and since 2011 has served as correspondent for The Associated Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he covers the NHL, the NFL, and Major League Baseball as well as various Olympic sports.

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      Football Season Ticket - Will Graves

      By Will Graves

      Football Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide © 2019 by Press Room Editions. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from the copyright owner, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      First Edition

      First Printing, 2019

      Book design by Sarah Taplin

      Cover design by Sarah Taplin

      Photographs ©: Kevin Terrell/AP Images, cover (top); Don Wright/AP Images, cover (bottom left); Matt York/AP Images, cover (bottom right top); Peter Read Miller/AP Images, cover (bottom right bottom); LM Otero/AP Images, 4; Focus on Sport/Getty Images, 7, 12, 43, 51, 64, 68, 80; Icon Sportswire/Getty Images, 9; Anthony Behar/Sipa/AP Images, 10–11; Pro Football Hall of Fame/AP Images, 14, 20, 28; NFL Photos/AP Images, 16–17, 34, 38; AP Images, 22, 26; Vic Stein/Getty Images, 30; Herb Scharfman/Sports Imagery/Getty Images, 37; Donald Miralle/Getty Images, 45; Nate Fine/Getty Images, 46; Andy Lyons/Getty Images, 53, 87; Tony Tomsic/AP Images, 54; E.L. Bakke/Getty Images, 59; Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images, 62; Kirby Lee/Getty Images, 71; Jon Durr/Getty Images, 72; Elsa/Getty Images, 75; Allen Kee/Getty Images, 79; Mark Brettingen/Getty Images, 83; Bob Levey/Getty Images, 88; Dustin Bradford/Getty Images, 92; Scott Cunningham/Getty Images, 94–95; Red Line Editorial, 96–97, 103

      Design Elements ©: Shutterstock Images

      Press Box Books, an imprint of Press Room Editions

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018940605

      ISBN:

      978-1-63494-036-8 (paperback)

      978-1-63494-041-2 (epub)

      978-1-63494-046-7 (hosted ebook)

      Distributed by North Star Editions, Inc.

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      Mendota Heights, MN 55120

      www.northstareditions.com

      Printed in the United States of America

      Chapter 1

      A Super Holiday

      You won’t find it on an official calendar, but make no mistake: the world stops for Super Sunday.

      Since the first Super Bowl was held in January 1967, Super Sunday has become more than just a game. Famous singers step forward to belt out the national anthem. The hottest entertainers line up to perform during the halftime show. Companies scramble to come up with inventive commercials that will have people talking long after the final whistle.

      At the heart of it, though, is the game itself. Featuring the two best teams in the National Football League (NFL), the Super Bowl is the pinnacle of the sport. And when it’s done, the winners get to crown themselves champions, grab the Vince Lombardi Trophy, and revel in a sea of confetti.

      What’s not to like?

      The rise of Super Sunday is like the history of the NFL itself. In the beginning, it wasn’t that big a deal. The first Super Bowl wasn’t even a sellout. Heck, it wasn’t even called the Super Bowl. Back then it was the AFL-NFL World Championship Game.

      Boring, right? Fans seemed to think so.

      Even though the most expensive tickets went for $12, there were plenty of empty seats at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Green Bay Packers crushed the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.

      Though his team lost, Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt came up with an idea to make the game sound cooler the next time. He noticed his kids kept playing with a toy called a Super Ball.

      My dad said, ‘Well, we need to come up with a name, something like the Super Bowl,’ Lamar Hunt Jr. said. Then he said, ‘Actually, that’s not a very good name. We can come up with something better.’

      Turns out, he didn’t have to.

      Super Bowl sounded catchy, but it needed something more. So, Hunt also suggested adding Roman numerals for each game so fans could tell

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