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Thomas P. Oates is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. His work on sports, media, and contemporary culture has appeared in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Sport Journal.    Zack Furness is Assistant Professor of Communications at Penn State University, Greater Allegheny.  He is the editor of Punkademics and the author of One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility (Temple).

• Foreword: Football as Mediated Spectacle • Michael Oriard  Introduction: The Political Football: Culture, Critique, and the NFL • Thomas P. Oates and Zack Furness  I Production, Promotion, and Control1 The Greatest Game Ever Played: An NFL Origin Story • Daniel A. Grano2 Game Time: A History of the Managerial Authority of the Instant Replay • Dylan Mulvin3 The Ochocinco Brand: Social Media's Impact on the NFL's Institutional Control • Jacob Dittmer4 New Media and the Repackaging of NFL Fandom • Thomas P. Oates  II Identities, Social Hierarchies, and Cultural Power5 NFL Sex • Toby Miller6 Football and "Ghettocentric" Logics? The NFL's Essentialist Mobilization of Black Bodies• Ronald L. Mower, David L. Andrews, and Oliver J. C. Rick7 "I Was a Gladiator": Pain, Injury, and Masculinity in the NFL • Katie Rodgers8 Masculinity, Race, and Violence in Any Given Sunday • Aaron Baker9 Spignesi, Sinatra, and the Pittsburgh Steelers: Franco's Italian Army as an Expression of Ethnic Identity, 1972–1977 • Nicholas P. Ciotola  III Gridirons and Battlefields10 Offensive Lines: Sport-State Synergy in an Era of Perpetual War • Samantha King11 NFL Films and the Militarization of Professional Football • Michael L. Butterworth12 For the Love of National Manhood: Excavating the Cultural Politics and Media Memorializations of Pat Tillman • Kyle W. Kusz  ContributorsIndex