Going Long
Going Long
Going Long
The Wild Ten-Year Saga of the Renegade American Football League in the Words of Those Who Lived It
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Going Long
Going Long
The Wild Ten-Year Saga of the Renegade American Football League in the Words of Those Who Lived It
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Oral histories can be a tricky thing. For every book that does it right (SNL, ESPN, MTV (I Want My MTV...the best oral history ever), there are several (there is a oral history of CAA that is brutal) that can turn into a mess. Put this one in the former category. Super informative. Detailed, but not bogged down in minutiae. Some of the big players in the AFL don't appear in the book (Al Davis...but not for lack of trying), but a lot of them do, and they have stories. Lots of stories, with a lot of characters. Even wonder why the Bengals seem have to the same colors as the Browns? How the Kansas City team got it's name? That there would be no Oakland Raiders if the original owners of the Minnesota Vikings hadn't defected to the NFL? It's hard to imagine today's teams playing in the conditions that some of these teams started with. Well written book Highly recommended for football historians or those in former AFL towns.
