TOP FIVES

Top five: football books for Fall 2025

Top Five football books for Fall 2025: smart, readable picks spanning quarterbacks, team history, and league business, with brief blurbs and release dates.

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STRATEGY

Books

Football Scouting Methods by Steve Belichick, review

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Football Scouting Methods by Steve Belichick is the 1962 guide that shaped modern scouting. A must-read on formations, tendencies, and opponent analysis.
Books

Upside Down Football by Ted Kluck, review

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Ted Kluck’s Upside Down Football is an inside look at long snappers and the world of special teams. A must-read for fans of football’s unseen battles.

Vince Lombardi on Football by Vince Lombardi

The Why is Everything by Michael Silver, review

Art and Magic of Quarterbacking by Joe Montana, review

The Birth of Football’s Modern 4-3 Defense, TJ Troup

PLAYER BIOS

FOOTBALL HISTORY

American Kings by Seth Wickersham, review

A powerful, wide-ranging portrait of the quarterback position, American Kings is essential reading for football fans and culture buffs alike.

How Football Became Football by Timothy P Brown, review

Majesty and Mayhem by Tom Danyluk, review

Football Done Right by Michael Lombardi, review

The Occasionally Accurate Annals of Football by Dan Patrick and Joel H Cohen, review

COACH BIOS

Parcells: A Football Life by Nunyo Demasio and Bill Parcells, review

The definitive autobiography of the legendary NFL coach who led four franchises, won two Super Bowls, and mentored icons like Belichick and Coughlin.

Chuck Noll by Michael MacCambridge, review

The Players’ Coach by Tom Moore, review

The Gamemakers by Jack Clary, review

Paul Brown: The Man Who Invented Modern Football by George Cantor, review

INTERVIEWS

CATEGORIES

TEAM HISTORY

Brady vs Belichick by Gary Myers, review

Who mattered more to the Patriots dynasty, Brady or Belichick? Gary Myers tackles football’s great debate.
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The Lions Finally Roar by Bill Morris, review

How the Detroit Lions recovered from decades of mishaps to become an NFC force.
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The 2,003-Yard Odyssey by Joe Zagorski, review

Joe Zagorski tells the story of OJ Simpson's record-breaking season, and the O-line that led the way.
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Once A Giant by Gary Myers, review

Gary Myers tells the story of the brotherhood of the 1986 New York Giants and the trials many of them faced after football.
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It’s Better to be Feared by Seth Wickersham, review

Seth Wickersham delivers a well-written and deeply reported examination of the Belichick and Brady era in New England.
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