Tropic of Football The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL by Rob Ruck

Tropic of Football The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL by Rob Ruck | 20.98 MB
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Title: Tropic of Football
Author: Rob Ruck
Year: 2018

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Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award
Everything that's rousing and distressing about block-and-tackle football is encompassed in Tropic of Football. . . illuminating."
—Newsday
How a tiny Pacific archipelago is producing more players—from Troy Polamalu to Marcus Mariota—for the NFL than anywhere else in the world, by an award-winning sports historian Football is at a crossroads, its future imperiled by the very physicality that drives its popularity. Its grass roots—high school and youth travel program—are withering. But players from the small South Pacific American territory of Samoa are bucking that trend, quietly becoming the most disproportionately overrepresented culture in the sport.
Jesse Sapolu, Junior Seau, Troy Polamalu, and Marcus Mariota are among the star players to emerge from the Samoan islands, and more of their brethren suit up every season. The very thing that makes them so good...

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