Gerald R. Gems is a professor of health and physical education at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. He is the author of For Pride, Profit, and Patriarchy: Football and the Incorporation of American Cultural Values and Windy City Wars: Labor, Leisure, and Sport in the Making of Chicago.
Elliott J. Gorn is Professor of History and American Civilization at Brown University. He is author of many books, including Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One and Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America, and coauthor of A Brief History of American Sports.
Stephen Hardy is a retired professor of kinesiology and affiliate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. His publications include Sport Marketing, Fourth Edition, and How Boston Played: Sport, Recreation, and Community. Andrew C. Holman is a professor of history and the director of Canadian studies at Bridgewater State University. His publications include Canada's Game: Hockey and Identity and The Same but Different: Hockey in Quebec.
Peter Levine is a senior fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses and a former Senate staffer. He has served as the Deputy Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense—the senior Pentagon official responsible for defense management reform.
Michael Oriard played football for the University of Notre Dame and the Kansas City Chiefs and is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in American literature and culture at Oregon State University. He is the author of four volumes on the cultural history of American football, including King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly, and the Daily Press. He has written about football for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Sports Illustrated, and has appeared in numerous football documentaries produced by NFL Films, PBS’s Frontline, ESPN, and others.
