Richard Lister
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With pressure to perform free from error-an impossibility-in America's most popular sport, the work done by football officials has become more difficult than ever. A Tough Job Made Harder explores how this has happened as well as the challenges that lie ahead for the game and its officials.
Cultural imperatives grounded in team allegiance has increased the stresses on football's judges to invariably, "get it right." Officials offer the path of least...
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The only third-person account describing the lives and work of NFL game officials.
There would be no NFL football without him.
He is an accountant, educator, lawyer, sales executive, policeman, dentist, business owner, corporate executive, or fireman.
He is an NFL game official.
His life is a little like Clark Kent's; he lives a mainstream life Monday through Friday. On Sunday he puts on a uniform lending impressive power. He makes decisions affecting...
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How does Ormilla, a hungry outcast girl in South Asia, turn into a flourishing young woman confidently leading a preschool? How does a violent part of Belfast City in the United Kingdom, where youths used to throw stones at police cars, develop into a thriving community? And how does Peter in Kenya, an alcoholic dressed in rags covered with mud, become a dignified Christian man full of joy and no longer poor?
The answer? They've been transformed...
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The View from the O-Line is an NFL narrative that has yet to be told, about men who game-in and game-out take grueling physical punishment without the expectation of fame and media attention. These are the men who make up the offensive line.
Howard Mudd spent more than forty years in the NFL, first as a player and later as a coach. His narrative anchors this work while more than twenty contributors: current and former NFL players-including Nick Mangold,...