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Tarkenton

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Francis Tarkenton, 1975’s Most Valuable Player in the National Football League - an honor long overdue - and possessor of numerous all-time records, including most touchdown passes thrown, has combined with a veteran columnist for the Minneapolis Star, Jim Klobuchar, to describe fully and candidly Tarkenton’s career as an uncommon football player and his views on a host of interesting topics.

In this book Fran Tarkenton offers personal portraits of some of the great players, coaches, and owners he has played with and against, and identifies the best and the dirtiest; recreates the longest day of his life, a playoff football game in which disappointment gave way to personal tragedy; describes the Super Bowl syndrome and his high school and college experiences in Georgia; examines his controversies with Norm Van Brocklin and Wellington Mara; discloses what kind of coach or general manager he would be; and puts the reader in the middle of the huddle and the locker room that have served as his habitat in a record-breaking fifteen-year career.

Language: English

Pages: 274

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harper and Row

Release: October 01, 1976

ISBN: 0060124121

ISBN 13: 9780060124120

Tarkenton

4/5 ( ratings)

Francis Tarkenton, 1975’s Most Valuable Player in the National Football League - an honor long overdue - and possessor of numerous all-time records, including most touchdown passes thrown, has combined with a veteran columnist for the Minneapolis Star, Jim Klobuchar, to describe fully and candidly Tarkenton’s career as an uncommon football player and his views on a host of interesting topics.

In this book Fran Tarkenton offers personal portraits of some of the great players, coaches, and owners he has played with and against, and identifies the best and the dirtiest; recreates the longest day of his life, a playoff football game in which disappointment gave way to personal tragedy; describes the Super Bowl syndrome and his high school and college experiences in Georgia; examines his controversies with Norm Van Brocklin and Wellington Mara; discloses what kind of coach or general manager he would be; and puts the reader in the middle of the huddle and the locker room that have served as his habitat in a record-breaking fifteen-year career.

Language: English

Pages: 274

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harper and Row

Release: October 01, 1976

ISBN: 0060124121

ISBN 13: 9780060124120

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