Turf Wars : The Fight for the Soul of America's Game
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0593729420
ISBN-13
9780593729427
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Imprint
Random House Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 5th, 2025
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
567 grams
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Tourism industryHospitality industryAmerican football
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An NFL insiders explosive account of the ruthless power struggles between owners and players over the future of football.
During his fourteen years as the head of the NFL Players Association, DeMaurice Smith was a front line advocate for football players through some of the most tumultuous crises in NFL history: Colin Kaepernicks protests, Deflategate, a lockout, two collective bargaining agreements, and more. But after witnessing the leagues troubling response to discrimination and racial unrest, both within the league and beyond, Smith realized it was time to pull back the curtain and speak truth to power.
Drawing from his years of unprecedented access and unparalleled knowledge of Americas favorite sport, Smith documents his years leading the NFLPA and explains how the NFL distorts the truth, telling partial stories to insulate itself and grow its $20-billion-a-year brandand the players battles to protect themselves.
From contract negotiations to battles over suspensions, Smith shows us how the union fought to protect players from the greed, racism, and dishonesty the league is built on. He also takes readers inside closed-door meetings and unreported conversations and confrontations with the industrys most powerful figures such as Robert Kraft, Jerry Jones, Tom Brady, and Roger Goodell.
Turf Wars puts every NFL crisisboth familiar and lesser knownwithin a broader cultural and historical context, framing the leagues extraordinary rise as a mirror to Americas own history. Revelatory and profound, Turf Wars is a book about the soul of football: its degradation, and how to save it.
During his fourteen years as the head of the NFL Players Association, DeMaurice Smith was a front line advocate for football players through some of the most tumultuous crises in NFL history: Colin Kaepernicks protests, Deflategate, a lockout, two collective bargaining agreements, and more. But after witnessing the leagues troubling response to discrimination and racial unrest, both within the league and beyond, Smith realized it was time to pull back the curtain and speak truth to power.
Drawing from his years of unprecedented access and unparalleled knowledge of Americas favorite sport, Smith documents his years leading the NFLPA and explains how the NFL distorts the truth, telling partial stories to insulate itself and grow its $20-billion-a-year brandand the players battles to protect themselves.
From contract negotiations to battles over suspensions, Smith shows us how the union fought to protect players from the greed, racism, and dishonesty the league is built on. He also takes readers inside closed-door meetings and unreported conversations and confrontations with the industrys most powerful figures such as Robert Kraft, Jerry Jones, Tom Brady, and Roger Goodell.
Turf Wars puts every NFL crisisboth familiar and lesser knownwithin a broader cultural and historical context, framing the leagues extraordinary rise as a mirror to Americas own history. Revelatory and profound, Turf Wars is a book about the soul of football: its degradation, and how to save it.
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