When you talk about football in Europe, everybody thinks you mean soccer. American football is still a developing sport in Europe, despite having a centennial history behind it. Packed with game scores and interesting anecdotes, "Touchdown in Europe," by Massimo Foglio and Mark L. Ford, tells the story of the first 85 years of American football in Europe from the very beginning: Thanksgiving Day, 1897, near Paris, France, when the gridiron game made its first appearance. During the 20th century there had been a few attempts to introduce Europeans to the game. For the most part, though,...
When you talk about football in Europe, everybody thinks you mean soccer. American football is still a developing sport in Europe, despite having a ce...