Bibliograph

Gunslinger, the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre, Jeff Pearlman

Type

Label

Gunslinger, the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre, Jeff Pearlman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-415) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Gunslinger

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

932050606

Responsibility statement

Jeff Pearlman

Sub title

the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre

Summary

"Gunslinger tells Brett Favre<U+0019>s 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 couldn<U+0019>t bear to leave,"--Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Beginning -- Childhood -- High school -- Varsity blues -- College-bound -- The man -- Legend -- Near death -- Senioritis -- Hotlanta -- Arrival -- A Packer emerges -- God and the devil -- The wheels fall off -- High and dry -- Super Bowl -- Low -- Something about -- Chewed up -- Big Irv -- Heir apparent -- McCarthyism -- Soap -- J-E-T-S -- A Norse god -- A saintly beating

Target audience

adult

Classification