Product Description

The official 2009 National Football League Record & Fact Book is the only record book authorized by the National Football League. The 2009 National Football League Record & Fact Book is distributed to news organizations around the world to assist in their coverage of the NFL. Its 688 pages include:

• Special Inside the Numbers statistical section
• Revised and updated chronological history of professional football since 1869
• All-time NFL individual and team records
• Official rcords for postseason games, Super Bowl and Pro Bowl
• A complete listing of 2009 team and individual statistics
• Top individual rushing, passing, receiving and quarterback sack performances of 2008
• 2009 NFL Draft Summary
• Active and career coaching records
• Active statistical leaders
• Veteran and first-year rosters for all 32 teams
• Team directories
• Complete 2009 schedule
• History of overtime games
• All-time team-versus-tream results
• Pro Football Hall of Fame members
• A list of outstanding individual performances
• A summary of yearly statistical leaders

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7695 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 688 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781603208093
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"The NFL RECORD & FACT BOOK is an invaluable tool for those who follow the NFL" - CBS Sports"

Customer Reviews

Why no box scores?
Why did the NFL eliminate the box scores from the previous season?

I know they saved about 40 pages by doing so, but that was one of the best parts of the book! Are these available anywhere else?

You would think announcers, reporters and other media types would want to know details of what happened in games played the previous season, especially between division rivals that meet twice a year.

Seriously - is there any other printed source for full-year box scores?

This is still a good reference, but I've got serious doubts about buying next year's edition.

Getting worse each year.
This publication used to be incredibly informative, and still has more statistics on the NFL than any other sports almanac. I think, however, that this may be the last year I purchase a copy. Already eliminated from the publication years ago were the breakdowns of star players' performance against each team. I always liked seeing statistical proof that certain players really had some teams' numbers, but removing that was minor. Then, the individual game recaps were shortened, which was annoying but okay. Now, they've eliminated teh game recaps entirely. This has become just a collection of statistics, not much more than is available in an annual sports almanac, and not worth paying $20 for.

Elimination of Scoring Summaries is a Huge Disppointment
I've been purchasing the NFL Record & Fact Book for 25 years now, and it has been an invaluable reference that I use over and over again throughout the season. However, for the last 8 years, it has continually fallen victim to cost-cutting measures.

In 2002, they decreased the physical size of the book, going with smaller print and making it harder to read. In 2004, the quality of the paper used decreased noticeably. In both cases, it was a nuisance, but all of the information was still there.

This year, however, for the first time since I've been collecting the book, it contains less information than the previous year. In some cases this doesn't concern me; for instance, they've eliminated the "Tom Brady's (for example) Career Passing Against Each Opponent" section, which I always though was excessive, and the abstract nature of what a player had to do to get featured in that way was a little bothersome anyhow.

But what left me with that lingering feeling of disappointment was that they have eliminated the section that contains a scoring summary and a one-paragraph blurb about each regular-season game of the prior season. It has been replaced by a presentation of the scores and standings of each week, with an admonition that if we want complete box scores and game summaries, we can go to [...].

Fine and dandy, the age of high-tech information, blah blah blah. And I'm sure that if I went to [...] today, they would have far more information about the 2008 games than was ever contained in previous editions of the Record & Fact Book. But I ask you this: will [...] archive this information in an easily-accessible way forever? Or will they keep the last 5 seasons and allow anything before that to drift off into the digital nether-world? As an enthusiast for the history of pro football, I still refer to my Record and Fact Books from the 1980s with some regularity. 20 years from now, when I want to reference a game played in the 2008 season, how difficult will it to be find what I'm looking for?

Even in this age of cheap digital data storage (and if I'm a grouchy old man 34, so be it), there is something to be said for the permanence of having information that is important to you in a concrete, portable format. Two thumbs down on the NFL.