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Book

The Mannings : the fall and rise of a football family

Call Number

  • 929.2 M2832A (OSH)

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Edition

First Edition.

Publication Information

New York : Ballantine Books, [2016]

Physical Description

xvii, 347 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Summary

"From New York Times bestselling author Lars Anderson comes a revealing portrait of the first family of American sports. What the Kennedys are to politics, the Mannings are to football. Two generations have produced three NFL superstars: Archie Manning, the Ole Miss hero-turned-New Orleans Saint; his son Peyton, widely considered one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game; and Peyton's younger brother, Eli, who won two Super Bowl rings of his own. And the oldest Manning child, Cooper--who was forced to quit playing sports after he was diagnosed at age eighteen with a rare spinal condition--might have been the most talented of them all."--Amazon.com.

Contents

  • Prologue: Peyton's final pass
  • Desperate for a hero
  • The pee-wee QB
  • "My boy will be there"
  • The redheaded show-off
  • The cerebral signal caller
  • A storm gathers
  • Why now?
  • The birth of a folk hero
  • The best I ever saw
  • The fear of failing
  • What might have been
  • A married man becomes a saint
  • "I'll always be from Dew"
  • The beat-up quarterback
  • Archie one and Archie two
  • The commuter QB
  • Teaching life
  • and football
  • lessons
  • The most magical fall
  • A note for Peyton
  • "The bad thing happened to the right guy"
  • The decision
  • The Mamma's boy
  • Easy rider
  • "I only had dogs and cats named after me"
  • A coach just like Archie
  • The past is never dead
  • A combination of Archie and Peyton
  • The thinking man's QB.

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