附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-521) and index.
Intro -- Terms of Use -- Want to learn more? -- Contents -- Foreword: Gale Sayers -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Kickoff: Halas Lives! -- First Quarter: 1895-1932 -- One: Learning the Ropes -- Two: Destiny Beckons -- Three: From Tank Towns to That Toddlin' Town -- Four: The First Superstar -- Five: The Last Roar of the '20s -- Six: Partners on the Rocks -- Second Quarter: 1933-1945 -- Seven: The Big Breakout -- Eight: Of Rubber Shoes and the Madman of the Midway -- Nine: A Son Like No Other -- Ten: "The Greatest Team of All Time -- Eleven: The Team of Destiny -- Twelve: Crisis on the Home Front -- Thirteen: War, War, War -- Third Quarter: 1946-1965 -- Fourteen: Money That Burns-the Postwar War -- Fifteen: Best Record, No Titles -- Sixteen: The Luckman Curse, or Was It Lujack, Layne, or Blanda? -- Seventeen: Tube or Consequences -- Eighteen: Bears Down -- Nineteen: The Kids Who Came to Play -- Twenty: Paddy Cake, Paddy Cake, Papa's Man -- Twenty-One: Déjà Vu and a Dose of Halas Hubris -- Twenty-Two: Changing Times -- Twenty-Three: Building for Another Title -- Twenty-Four: Primed for the Push -- Twenty-Five: Hooray for George! -- Twenty-Six: Trouble Comes in Many Packages -- Twenty-Seven: The Greatest Stars, the Greatest Loss -- Fourth Quarter: 1966-2003 -- Twenty-Eight: The Mess -- Twenty-Nine: Mugs and Jerry -- Thirty: Halas and the McCaskeys: The Legacy -- Overtime: Not Sudden Death! -- Bibliography -- Index.
摘要:George Halas changed the way Americans spend their Sundays. He founded the National Football League and created its storied franchise, the Chicago Bears. He is considered the father of pro football, as he grabbed an outlaw sport by its throat, shook it, led it into respectability, and made it into the richest and most popular spectator sport on the earth. As owner of the Bears from 1920-1983, he also coached the team for 40 seasons and won 8 NFL titles.; Elected to NFL Hall of Fame in 1963, Halas ranks 2nd on the all-time list with 324 victories as head coach, and his name graces the trophies awarded each year to to both the NFC champion and the league's defensive player of the year. And his family still owns the Bears. Halas remains, nearly 20 years after his death, one of the towering figures of professional sports--a man whose very name is synonymous with the league and team he founded. He was every bit as important a figure (if not more so) as legendary Packers' coach Vince Lombardi, the subject of David Maraniss' best-selling biography When Pride Still Mattered. His story is one of those great American success stories, yet ironically, there has never been a full-fledged, thoroughly researched, balanced, authoritative, biography written about the man.; Papa Bear is unique and different from previous Halas biographies in that it draws on exclusive interviews with formerly reticent members of the Halas family, his closest friends, his former players and assistant coaches, his business associates, and others. This material, as well as other archival materials Davis has unearthed has never before been published in any of the previous, no-frills works published on Papa Bear Halas, the last of which was published in 1986. This is the first biography to tell the whole story of the great Halas, from all possible angles, and it's also the first to tell the story of Halas' legacy, all the way through the recent renovation and rededication of Chicago's Soldier Field in
