"A thorough history and reference book on the National Football League's annual Super Bowl"--Provided by publisher.

The 1970 merger between the American Football League and the National Football League laid the foundation for a stronger brand of gridiron competition, providing a new level of excitement for fans. This book examines each year of the NFL's pivotal decade in detail, covering the great names, great rivalries and great games, as well as the key changes in both strategy and rules. Along the way, the author explains how pro football developed into a near-religious American tradition.

Chronicles 75 championship Sundays, weaving them into a narrative of each game's unique drama, excitement, strategy, irony, results and after effects.