The Mannings the fall and rise of a football family
"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; hi...
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New York :
Ballantine Books,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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Table of 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.
