title: Football Made Simple: A Spectator's Guide (Spectator Guide Series)
author:  Dave Ominsky 
description: P.J. Harari and Dave Ominsky co-authored this book while pursuing their MBAs at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. However, it was while working as an attorney prior to enrolling in business school that Harari first came upon the idea for a Spectator Guide. Her clients often conducted business meetings at basketball or hockey games and she spent her time feigning interest or pretending to understand what was going on.Harari went in search of a book of rules hoping to solve her dilemma. Surely the local library would have something, she thought, or perhaps a local bookstore. But she had no luck. She resorted to teaching herself football by watching games on television, weekend after weekend of sitting alone in her living room. Harari did the same with hockey and basketball. And as her expertise grew, she was visited by peers, male and female alike, who would close her office door and quietly confide that they knew nothing about sports and desperately needed or want
zlib_text: **Football For Dummies **®****
  
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  **Table of Contents**
  
  Introduction
  
  > > About This Book
  
  > > Conventions Used in This Book
  
  > > What You’re Not to Read
  
  > > Foolish Assumptions
  
  > > How This Book Is Organized
  
  > > > > Part I: Football 101
  
  > > > > Part II: Go, Offense!
  
  > > > > Part III: The Big D
  
  > > > > Part IV: Meet the Rest of the Team
  
  > > > > Part V: Football for Everyone
  
  > > > > Part VI: The Part of Tens
  
  > > > > Part VII: Appendixes
  
  > > Icons Used in This Book
  
  > > Where to Go from Here
  
  Part I: Football 101
  
  > > Chapter 1: America’s Greatest Game
  
  > > > > Why Football Is the Best
  
  > > > > Who’s Playing Football
  
  > > > > How Football Began
  
  > > > > > > Camp defines the rules
  
  > > > > > > Grange helps spread the popularity of pro ball
  
  > > > > How the Football Season Is Set Up Today
  
  > > > > How Television Helped Increase Football’s P