Four years after the publication of "The Football Book", the "Sports Illustrated" editorial team that created the "New York Times" best seller returns with this revised and expanded edition. With over half a million copies in print, "The Football Book" is the perennial favorite in "Sports Illustrated" highly successful series of coffee-table books released every holiday season since 2005. And this revision brings the original edition up to the minute, with 80 pages of brand-new material - including a dozen stories from "Sports Illustrated" best writers and more than 60 pages of spectacular new photographs of NFL action through Super Bowl XLIII in February 2009. With unforgettable photographs, and award-winning stories, this lavish volume brings to life the bone-rattling impact and the breath-taking 'athleticism that have made pro football America's true national pastime.