A story of professional football as both a sport and a business details the life of quarterback Taylor Rusk and his teammates on the Texas Pistols

The Franchise

Gent, Peter

Literature & Fiction

Ballantine Books

Eight days in a pro football player's world of game pressures, drugs, and sex are portrayed by a former Dallas Cowboy

North Dallas Forty

A story of professional football as a sport and as a business that details the lives of quarterback Taylor Rusk and his teammates on the Texas Pistols

United States

Random House, Inc.

Twenty years after North Dallas's championship, the gridiron gang--quarterback Seth Maxwell, a movie star; Jo Bob Williams, sheriff of Purgatory County; B.A., ex-coach-turned governor; and one-time receiver Phil Elliot--returns to celebrate

North Dallas After 40

Villard

Mass market paperback, Signet, 1974. One of the most violent, sexiest, and funniest books ever written about pro football. 294 pages

Literary

Signet

This book is a fictional account of eight harrowing days in the life of a professional football player.

Genre Fiction

NORTH DALLAS FORTY

The story of eight harrowing days in the chaotic life of a professional football player, North Dallas Forty, originally published in 1973, exposes an NFL rife with corruption, drugs, sex, and violence. His body already racked with multiple injuries, Phil Elliot (played by Nick Nolte in the major film of 1978) is a cynical tight end hooked on painkillers and other mind-altering substances who must choose between enduring abuse by crazed coaches and depraved teammates or giving up his dreams of glory. This graphic story explores the disturbing relationship between violence in the football stadium and violence in American culture itself. "[Gent] balances shock with humor, irony with warmth, detail with insight, and ends up with a book that easily transcends its subject matter." - Dick Schaap, ESPN

Twenty years after North Dallas' championship, the gridiron gang--quarterback Seth Maxwell, a movie star; Jo Bob Williams, sheriff of Purgatory County; B.A., ex-coach-turned governor; and one-time receiver Phil Elliot--returns to celebrate

North Dallas after Forty

Contemporary

Twenty years after North Dallas's championship, the gridiron gang--quarterback Seth Maxwell, a movie star; Jo Bob Williams, sheriff of Purgatory County; B.A., ex-coach-turned governor; and one-time receiver Phil Elliot--returns to celebrate

Random House Value Publishing

Made into a great football movie starring Nick Nolte in 1978.

William Morrow

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The Franchise

North Dallas Forty

The Franchise

North Dallas After 40

North Dallas Forty

North Dallas Forty

North Dallas Forty

North Dallas after Forty

North Dallas After 40

NORTH DALLAS FORTY