{"id":879,"date":"2020-09-14T06:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=879"},"modified":"2020-09-13T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T20:47:21","slug":"gridiron-stories-from-100-years-of-the-national-football-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/gridiron-stories-from-100-years-of-the-national-football-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Gridiron: Stories from 100 Years of the National Football League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gridiron-595x595.jpg?resize=525%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12511\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3irREyn\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781481481120\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781481481120?aff=anasuen09\">IndieBound<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Gridiron: Stories from 100 Years of the National Football League<\/em><br \/>\nby Fred Bowen (Author) and James E. Ransome (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> The National Football League is the most popular sports league in the United States. Its championship game, the Super Bowl, is watched by millions of people every year. But it wasn\u2019t always like this. In the last one hundred years, football has changed from a poorly organized, often overlooked sport to America\u2019s favorite pastime. Discover the league\u2019s scrappy beginnings in an automobile showroom, and early players like Red Grange, the Galloping Ghost. Relive the very first championship game, played indoors after a circus had visited, and famous games like the Ice Bowl. See the NFL at war, and meet some of the remarkable athletes who helped desegregate the league. Learn how the draft came into existence, and about the teams that strove for that almost impossible goal&#8211;a perfect season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gridiron2-595x298.jpg?resize=525%2C263&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"263\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12513\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gridiron3-595x298.jpg?resize=525%2C263&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"263\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12514\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iQ1DwsK0bUc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hear the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iQ1DwsK0bUc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">author talk about the book<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Gridiron: Stories from 100 Years of the National Football League by Fred Bowen (Author) and James E. Ransome (Illustrator) Booktalk: The National Football League is the most popular sports league in the United States. Its championship game, the Super Bowl, is watched by millions of people every year. But it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/gridiron-stories-from-100-years-of-the-national-football-league\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gridiron: Stories from 100 Years of the National Football League&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-eb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":124,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/two-pioneering-women-athletes\/","url_meta":{"origin":879,"position":0},"title":"Two Pioneering Women Athletes","author":"@roberta3","date":"November 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In alphabetical order, today we have two picture book biographies about pioneering women athletes. 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