The League By John Eisenberg Sparknotes

John Eisenberg, a former sportswriter, writes about the creation of the NFL on pages 325-326 of "The League”, written in 2019 to celebrate the 100th year of the NFL. It tells an important story, to sports fans, about the start of the NFL and achieves his purpose of praising the hard work of the original NFL creators in the 1920s-1940s through specific details of the first Super Bowl, the impact of the rules created, and their feelings after finally achieving success.
First, Eisenberg uses specific details about the first Super Bowl to set the scene of the impact of the NFL creators' hard work. Throughout the book he includes specific details about games. For example, “With seven seconds to play, the Colts lined up for a 20-yard field goal that

The overall message of this book is that hard work leads to success and that is a very important life lesson. These creators worked through many obstacles, persevered and succeeded in their goal. There were many emotions during the end of the game for the fans and owners. “A man was crying tears of joy” (Eisenberg 326), and that man was one of the NFL creators, Bert Bell. He showed real emotion that day because this meant a lot to him and he was so happy with the outcome. These owners went through a rollercoaster of emotions on the journey to creating the NFL but it was all worth it in the end. They were all over the country watching the game but were united in their enthusiasm at the end of the game. This moment was a turning point in the book because there was finally success. “40 million people had watched the Colts and GIants on NBC” which is an insane statistic since years before there weren’t very many people actively watching. “That was roughly one-fifth of the country’s population [at the time]” (Eisenberg 326). After all of their hard work, the owners finally got the NFL out to the world. The five owners worked together and encouraged each other through hard times. They made good and bad decisions but they used their determination to build something that millions of people now care about and love. It is important for John Eiseberg to finish his book with this happy ending because it showcases the goal the owners were working towards. He ends with “their job was done” (Eisenberg 326) which explains how all of the hard times the owners went through was worth it in the end and hard work leads to success. It is an important message to give to the audience because some people could be on the verge of giving up on something they worked really hard for and Eisenberg wants to show that it is possible to have success even after all of the rough