Draft Days: The Pageantry, Strategy, Chaos, and History of the NFL Draft (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780306837821)

Vendor: Richard Eisen
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Draft Days: The Pageantry, Strategy, Chaos, and History of the NFL Draft

$35.00

Draft Days: The Pageantry, Strategy, Chaos, and History of the NFL Draft

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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ESPN's Rich Eisen, host of The Rich Eisen Show and anchor of the NFL Draft for over two decades, explores our strange love affair with the draft in a definitive book that chronicles nearly a century of colorful history, strategic jostling, and insider secrets--with input from coaches, players, executives, scouts, analysts, beat writers, and historians.

The NFL Draft should not be one of the most popular televised sporting events in America, especially given that it doesn't involve any actual sports. And yet a broadcast that consists of ten hours of people reading names off a list--and the rest of us reacting in real-time to the reading of those names--draws millions of television viewers, fuels a cottage industry of mock-draft experts, and attracts hundreds of thousands of people who flock like festival-goers to watch it live. How did an event that struggled for decades to attract the attention of even the most bored newspaper reporters transform itself into America's most-watched reality show?

Draft Days is the story of America's year-round love affair with football. It's about hope, despair, pageantry, controversy, and the power of television--with cameos from legends, busts, and Mel Kiper's hair. And who better to write the authoritative book on the subject than the man who's become its resident emcee? Rich Eisen has had a front-row seat at the heart of the draft as it's blown up into an annual phenomenon. Now it's his turn on the clock. He'll share his inside perspective on the indelible moments and riveting storylines that have transformed the NFL Draft into the league's offseason Super Bowl--from the brilliant maneuvering to the regrettable choices to the sheer joy and unpredictability of one of sports' biggest spectacles.

Author: Richard Eisen
ISBN-10: 030683782X
ISBN-13: 9780306837821
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Language: English
Published: 03/02/2027
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
By Richard Eisen
By Richard Eisen
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Rich Eisen is the host of The Rich Eisen Show, as well as NFL Network's NFL GameDay Morning on Sunday mornings throughout the football season. Eisen was a mainstay on ESPN's SportsCenter from 1996 until he helped launch NFL Network as its first on-air employee in 2003. He has anchored the network's special on-location coverage of the Super Bowl, NFL Draft and NFL Scouting Combine for more than twenty years, and he also serves as the emcee of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Gold Jacket Ceremony in Canton, Ohio. Eisen's work has garnered 8 Emmy nominations for Outstanding Studio Host with The Rich Eisen Show earning three nominations for Best Daily Studio Show. In 2017, he was honored as the 12th Pat Summerall Award recipient at the St. Jude Legends of Charity Dinner. A tireless supporter of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Eisen transitioned his annual Spring "Run Rich Run" event into a fundraiser that has raised over $9 million for the children's hospital. He's been married to fellow broadcaster Suzy Shuster for 23 years (and counting) with 3 children (no longer and counting) and 2 rescue dogs (open to more).

Michael Weinreb is an award-winning journalist and the author of four books, including Season of Saturdays, an acclaimed personal and cultural history of college football, and Game of Kings, about a championship Brooklyn high school chess team, which won a Quill Award. He has written for ESPN, Grantland, The New York Times, The Ringer, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, and many more

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