The Magic of Scholastic Book Fairs and the NFL

For most of us older pro football fans, our love of the game began in the classroom. Specifically, during those Scholastic book fairs of the 1960s, 1970s (my era), 1980s and 1990s. These were are formative years of fandom where the printed word and physical books truly mattered.  The All-Pro Football Stars books of the late 1970s are what helped to fuel my fandom, and couple that with Sports Illustrated, and weekly appointment viewing of The NFL Today, NFL Films' This Week in Pro Football, and of course Monday Night Football, a life long nearly 50 year fan was born. Fortunately the fine folks at the Internet Archive appear to now be able to once again offer digital lending of old out of print titles, including many of which are those treasured Scholastic sports titles that introduced us to the wide world sports. Now, if said titles are not able to be read at the Internet Archive, you most definitely SHOULD NOT use an anonymous Tor browser and VPN to mask your IP address and download these old Scholastic sports titles from the many shadow libraries that are on the Internet.