"Upton Bell grew up at the knee of the NFL's first great commissioner, his father, the legendary Bert Bell, who not only saved the game from financial ruin after World War II but was one of its greatest innovators. Coining the phrase 'on any given Sunday,' Bert invented the pro football draft and proposed sudden death rules. [This book] details Bell's firsthand experiences, which started as he watched his father draw up the league schedule each year at the kitchen table using dominoes ... Over the past fifty-three years, Bell has been an owner, a general manager, a personnel executive, a scouting director for two Super Bowl teams, a television commentator and analyst, and a talk-radio host"-- Dust jacket flap.
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