The weather is turning cooler and game day has finally arrived in the jungle. Leo Lion and Tenarious Tiger were voted the coach and the captain of their football teams. Tiger is very fired up because Lions team has won three years in a row. All of the animals on both teams have been working very hard to get in shape and prepare for the big game. They all know the importance of being physically fit in order to play their best and help their team win the game. So, buckle up your chin strap and lets see if Tiger can pull off the upset this year. Who will be the heroes, who will win The Jungle Football Game, and who will be voted the much desired Most Valuable Player Award? Join Coach Bobby Agee as he introduces children to the greatest American game of allfootball. Through the use of their favorite jungle animals, the children will learn some of the basic concepts and skills of the game, such as touchdowns, extra points, kickoffs, blocking, tackling, and kicking the football.

Acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its men Football teaches young men self-discipline and teamwork. But football celebrates violence. Football is a showcase for athletic beauty and physical excellence. But football damages young bodies and minds, sometimes permanently. Football inspires confidence and direction. But football instills cockiness, a false sense of superiority. The athlete is a noble figure with a proud lineage. The jock is America at its worst. When Mark Edmundson’s son began to play organized football, and proved to be very good at it, Edmundson had to come to terms with just what he thought about the game. Doing so took him back to his own childhood, when as a shy, soft boy growing up in a blue-collar Boston suburb in the sixties, he went out for the high school football team. Why Football Matters is the story of what happened to Edmundson when he tried to make himself into a football player. What does it mean to be a football player? At first Edmundson was hapless on the field. He was an inept player and a bad teammate. But over time, he got over his fears and he got tougher. He learned to be a better player and came to feel a part of the team, during games but also on all sorts of escapades, not all of them savory. By playing football, Edmundson became what he and his father hoped he’d be, a tougher, stronger young man, better prepared for life. But is football-instilled toughness always a good thing? Do the character, courage, and loyalty football instills have a dark side? Football, Edmundson found, can be full of bounties. But it can also lead you into brutality and thoughtlessness. So how do you get what’s best from the game and leave the worst behind? Why Football Matters is moving, funny, vivid, and filled with the authentic anxiety and exhilaration of youth. Edmundson doesn’t regret playing football for a minute, and cherishes the experience. His triumph is to be able to see it in full, as something to celebrate, but also something to handle with care. For anyone who has ever played on a football team, is the parent of a player, or simply is reflective about its outsized influence on America, Why Football Matters is both a mirror and a lamp.

This book is an exciting way to make your kids love football. It narrates the basics of football through graphic story telling. The story is about a little sparrow's effort to conduct a Football World Cup in her jungle. Recommended for kids This book will be an ideal gift for kids. Recommended for kids from 3 to 8 years of age. The storybook has attractive graphic content on all pages. This graphic storybook will be an exciting way for kids to know more about football. Synopsis The little sparrow is trying to conduct a World Cup in the jungle. But the animals do not know how to play football. She is teaching the animals how to play the game. The elephant and the squirrel make their teams to compete. The elephant has the strongest possible team, while the squirrel's team is quite weak. There are many surprises that result in a winner. Read the book to know more!

Safari FC - The Jungle Cup is a children's picture book for the 2-6 year old. It introduces children to the basic skills of football (soccer) in a fun, jungle setting using a variety of animals as the players. A friendly parrot commentates the game, taking you on the Safari FC football journey. Safari FC play a friendly game of football against a team of Ostriches, emphasizing the importance of team play and sportsmanship. The story is told through the art of illustration as characters are brought to life through facial expressions, body language and vivid football actions and skills. The book is a creative way of highlighting to children fundamental social, emotional and physical skills through the world game of football.

Brian Laws has played in all four professional divisions of English football, including six years under the legendary Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest. Here, Laws recalls his footballing odyssey, taking in stops at Burnley, Huddersfield, Middlesbrough, Nottingham, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Sheffield and back to Burnley again.

Instant New York Times Bestseller · Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation “Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights is an American classic. With The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too is destined to become a classic. I devoured it.” — John Grisham An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war – the invasion of Okinawa—their ranks included one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled: Former All Americans, captains from Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly twenty men who were either drafted or would ultimately play in the NFL. When the trash-talking between the 4th and 29th over who had the better football team reached a fever pitch, it was decided: The two regiments would play each other in a football game as close to the real thing as you could get in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal. The bruising and bloody game that followed became known as “The Mosquito Bowl.” Within a matter of months, 15 of the 65 players in “The Mosquito Bowl” would be killed at Okinawa, by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die in a single battle. The Mosquito Bowl is the story of these brave and beautiful young men, those who survived and those who did not. It is the story of the families and the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far more innocent time in both college athletics and the life of the country, and of the loss of that innocence. Writing with the style and rigor that won him a Pulitzer Prize and have made several of his books modern classics, Buzz Bissinger takes us from the playing fields of America’s campuses where boys played at being Marines, to the final time they were allowed to still be boys on that field of dirt and coral, to the darkest and deadliest days that followed at Okinawa.

Documents the history of football from the colonial days to today's professional and college games, in a work that includes memorabilia, cartoons, photographs, and other images that chronicle the sport's cultural and social influence.