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Pro Football Stats of the 70's Set

Pro Football Stats of the 70's

Your ultimate guide to the
players and teams of the 70's



Your expert Q&A source for 70's football statistics...
  • Which team gained the most yards on offense during the 70's? Dallas Cowboys, 50, 332 yards
  • Which Minnesota Viking player was named All-Pro the most times during the 70's?Ron Yary, named All-Pro 7 times





With The Perfect Draft, Pro Football Stats of the 70's and 50 Seasons of Quarterbacks (or Quarterbacks through history), Don Nichols compiles football statistics as if they were gold and shakes and stirs them in fun and interesting ways. He compares all the draft picks for the last 45 years and determines what the 'Perfect Draft' would have looked like. If there was a way to do a fantasy football team that spanned the last 50 years of football - these players would be on it. He compiled league and team statistics for the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's so we could see the stats for the eras. He then ranked 150 quarterbacks over the last 50 years to tell us who really were the best QB's of all time! Interesting, controversial, and great football commentary. If you love football - you will devour these books.

The Perfect Draft by Don Nichols

The Perfect Draft

If ever there was a perfect all-time fantasy football team - this is it! The Perfect Draft examines the draft picks of the last 45 years and Nichols selects who he thinks is the best of all time for that draft pick. Fun new way to stir up football conversation. Love it - hate it - agree or disagree, your choice, but these 224 all-time great football players belong in "The Perfect Draft".



Don Nichols' suggested reading list

Pro Football Stats of the 70's by League

Don Nichols
the football junkie

A decade's worth of stats collected to show which teams, players and franchises had dominance over the NFL!

ISBN: 0984541799

Pro Football Stats of the 70's by Team

Don Nichols
the football junkie

A decade's worth of stats collected to show which teams, players and franchises had dominance over the NFL!

ISBN: 0984541713

The Perfect Draft - 2011

Don Nichols
the football junkie

Over the past 45 years the best draft picks of all-time were assembled and assigned "The Perfect Draft."

ISBN: B004XT6HTM

50 Seasons of Quarterbacks

Don Nichols
the football junkie

Who was the best quarterback of the last 50 years? Who was the 2nd best? How about the top 150 quarterbacks of the past 50 years.

ISBN: B0056U4CYE

NFL Record and Fact Book 2009

Editors at the NFL

The official statistics and record book of the NFL. Contains all-time records, the previous year's statistics, the schedule for the proceeding years, and a host of other information.

ISBN: 1603208097

The ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia, Second Edition.

Edited by Pete Palmer, Ken Pullis, Sean Lahman, Tod Maher, Matthew Silverman, Gary Gillette, with an intro by Ron Jaworski

At 1536 pages and 4.2 pounds, this book has the statistics of every player that ever donned an NFL uniform. Every player drafted, every award ever given, every season ever played.

ISBN: 1402752504

Sports Illustrated The Football Book Expanded Edition

Editors of Sports Illustrated

320 pages of breathtaking photographs, essays, and statistics that captures the spirit of the NFL as only the writers at Sports Illustrated can.

ISBN: 1603200843

NFL Record and Fact Book 2008

Editors at the NFL

The official statistics and record book of the NFL. Contains all-time records, the previous year's statistics, the schedule for the proceeding years, and a host of other information.

ISBN: 1603207708

NFL Record and Fact Book 2010

Editors at the NFL

Release Date July 27, 2010. This upcoming book has the official statistics and record book of the NFL. Contains all-time records, the previous year's statistics, the schedule for the proceeding years, and a host of other information.

ISBN: 160320833X

That First Season: How Vince Lombardi took the worst team in and set it on the path to glory

John Eisenberg

A in-depth look at the coach who changed football and dominated a league. The story details the arrival of Lombardi in Green Bay and the struggles between a coach that believed in discipline and a team that resisted him.

ISBN: 0618904999

Total Football II

Total Sports, Michael Gershman, David Neft, John Thorn, Matthew Silverman, Elias Sports Bureau, Bob Carroll

At 1824 pages this book has the statistics of every player that ever donned an NFL uniform. Every player drafted, every award ever given, every season ever played. Exhaustive research, notably for the years 1920-1932, when pro football was still palying second fiddle to the college game.

ISBN: 0062701746

The Best Game Ever

Mark Bowden

The game which many historians chronicle as the coming of age for the NFL is brilliantly recounted by Mark Bowden. The game - the first overtime game in NFL history - featured 17 players that would later go on to enshrinement in the NFL Hall of Fame. Bowden not only details the game but also covers the lives of several of the players within it.

ISBN: 087113988X

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Excerpt from "The Perfect Draft" by Don Nichols

Pick 7

Champ Bailey, DB

Georgia

Washington Redskins (1999)

Honorable Mention:

Peterson garners tons of ink, Sharpe was the Packers first post-Lombardi superstar, but Champ Bailey is a shut-down corner who's played in 10 Pro Bowls.