Download or read book The Sporting News Selects Football's 100 Greatest Players written by Ron Smith and published by Sporting News Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greatness is in the eye of the beholder and any measure of that greatness stirs debate, outrage and a passion that burns deep in the soul of any professional football fan. The beholder in this volume is a team of editors from THE SPORTING NEWS, the publication that has chronicled the rise of the professional game from its club-sport infancy to the multimillion dollar National Football League that exists today. Not only have the top 100 professional football players of the century been selected, but they have been recording to the talent, passion, and excitement they brought to the field and the emotion they stirred among generations of fans.