Gunslinger
Subtitle: the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
By: Jeff Pearlman
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780544454378
Subjects: Football players; Biography
Description: "Gunslinger tells Brett Favres story for the first time, drawing on more than five hundred interviews, including many from the people closest to Favre. Jeff Pearlman charts an unparalleled journey from his rough rural childhood and lackluster high school football career to landing the last scholarship at Southern Mississippi to a car accident that nearly took his life. Favre clawed back, getting drafted into the NFL by the Atlanta Falcons, then finding his way to Green Bay, where he restored the Packers to greatness and inspired a fan base as passionate as any in the game. Yet he struggled with demons: addiction, infidelity, the loss of his father, and a fraught, painfully prolonged exit from the game he loved, a game he couldnt bear to leave,"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-415) and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginning; title: Childhood; title: High school; title: Varsity blues; title: College-bound; title: The man; title: Legend; title: Near death; title: Senioritis; title: Hotlanta; title: Arrival; title: A Packer emerges; title: God and the devil; title: The wheels fall off; title: High and dry; title: Super Bowl; title: Low; title: Something about; title: Chewed up; title: Big Irv; title: Heir apparent; title: McCarthyism; title: Soap; title: J-E-T-S; title: A Norse god; title: A saintly beating.