Touchdown Wire’s summer football reading list

We all hated the dreaded summer reading list in school. But what if the list was about football? Here’s our recommended summer reading.

The Genius of Desperation

The Genius of Desperation: The Schematic Innovations that Made the Modern NFL by [Doug Farrar, Louis Riddick]

You cannot understand the future of football without tracing its evolution. In this book, Doug Farrar works through the game and illustrates the schematic advances that were spurred on by the need to win. Farrar highlights the various paradigm shifts that moved the game forward, dating back to the 1920s and tracking to the modern game. Farrar also points to the future, and the likely impact that “positionless football” is going to have on the game we love. You can find this book on Amazon.

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