Praise for the first edition:
It's sure to be a hit with any gridiron fan.
-- American Profile

A superb book for fans and a compelling history of a great game.
-- BookPage

In the United States, football has more fans than any other sport. Why is the NFL so popular? Who are the players that have carried this storied league to the biggest stage in America? These questions and many more are answered in detail in Football's Greatest Stars.

Author Allan Maki includes fascinating profiles of the 50 greatest and most exciting players in the history of professional football. They're all here: from the pioneers of the game to the current stars to the legends headed to the Hall of Fame. Exciting photographs show these past and present superstars in action, and 32 franchise profiles chart the league's rise to the top of professional sports.

Some of the stars new to this edition are:

• Jared Allen
• Aaron Rodgers
• Drew Brees
• Adrian Peterson
• Larry Fitzgerald
• Troy Polamalu
• Antonio Gates
• Darrelle Revis
• Robert Griffin III
• Ray Rice
• Rob Gronkowski
• Justin Smith
• Andre Johnson
• Terrell Suggs
• Calvin Johnson
• Joe Thomas
• Maurice Jones-Drew
• DeMarcus Ware
• Haloti Nagata
• Patrick Willis
• Cam Newton

Allan Maki also examines the sport in three insightful essays: one on the National Football League's spectacular rise to prominence, another on the leading men and defining moments that have shaped the league and a third on the sport's legends-to-be. Football's Greatest Stars is a superb book for every fan and a compelling history of a great game.

Allan Maki is an award-winning sports writer who spent 22 years at Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail. He has written for Time, Maclean's, FHM, USA Today and co-authored the book Football's Greatest Stars through three editions. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame's media section in 2006. He lives in Calgary with his Californian wife.

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[Review of previous edition:] A superb book for fans and a compelling history of a great game -- includes profiles of its greatest players.

BookPage

[Review of previous edition:] Packed with 120 color photos of Peyton Manning, O.J. Simpson, Jerry Rice, Jim Brown, Joe Namath, Terry Bradshaw, Deion Sanders and many , many other touchdown titans, it's sure to be a hit with any gridiron fan.

American Profile .com

[Review of previous edition:] Football's Greatest Stars looks at an elite group of players who came to define the sport through their stellar play.... A valuable reference guide for lovers of the sport, reading the book will bring back memorable Sunday afternoons of watching some of the greatest players ever to put on a football helmet.

Shelf Life

[Review of previous edition:] There's a lot of information in this book.

Winnipeg Free Press