Books

The Hidden Game of Football essentially created the field of football analytics. It changed how sportswriters and analysts looked at the game.

The Pros collects work from Sports Illustrated photographer and illustrator Robert Riger, with commentary from Tex Maule.

City of Champions is an exhaustively-researched book about a high school football team that brings to life small-town America in the late 1930s in ways that are genuinely moving.

In Brainwashed, Hoge argues that the evidence for a link between football and CTE is overstated, incomplete or mistaken and that it is being exaggerated by people who plan to use it to destroy football.

John Madden's first book is essentially an autobiography, but one written with the legendary coach's familiar, relaxed style.

Fridays are when Bill Belichick is most talkative with the media and this book gathers some of the highlights.

Mark Leibovich, who writes for the New York Times Magazine and mostly deals in the world of politics, goes behind the scenes of the NFL.

Bill Walsh, Bill Parcells and Joe Gibbs dominated the NFL in the 1980s. Bob Glauber looks at their careers.