Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL.
Jeff Pearlman, veteran sports author, wrote a book about a defunct league more than 30 years after it imploded in on itself and it’s the most fascinating football book I’ve read in years. In the acknowledgements section, Pearlman says when shopping the book idea around he was told “no one wants a book about the f******* USFL.” I disagree.
Not only is this book somehow topical, it serves as a retrospective a generation later that only the passage of time allows us to truly appreciate.