Merger And Mayhem 1966 And the Birth of the New NFL

The year 2006 marks the 40th anniversary of the birth of the National Football League as we know it, when owners in the NFL and the upstart American Football League agreed to an unprecedented merger that would take place at the start of the 1970 season. They also agreed to play, beginning at the end of the '66 season, a game between each league's champion. Now known as the Super Bowl, the championship game is one of the most-watched events in the television year. Merger & Mayhem is an intimate, insider account with epic sweep that details the historic season that led to the legendary game between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Hall of Fame sportswriter Larry Felser pulls no punches, profiling the players and candidly recounting the off-field war between owners and cities, a story as brutal as and sometimes more than the more familiar one on the field.Felser, Larry is the author of 'Merger And Mayhem 1966 And the Birth of the New NFL', published 2006 under ISBN 9781578602728 and ISBN 1578602726.