Favre: For the Record - Rilegato

Favre, Brett; Havel, Chris

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 038549050X ISBN 13: 9780385490504

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 1996

Riassunto

The NFL's Most Valuable Player and the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, the winners of the thirty-first Super Bowl, recounts his adolescent training and perseverance and his struggle to overcome an adult addiction to painkillers.

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L'autore:

Chris Havel is a sports columnist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

een Bay Packer quarterback Brett Favre has the arm of Dan Marino, the agility of Steve Young, the field presence of Joe Montana and the brashness of Jim McMahon. Born the son of an indomitable high school football coach in hardscrabble Kiln, Mississippi, Favre has gone on to become the NFL's most valuable player two years running (a feat equaled only by the legendary Joe Montana) and, after twenty-nine years, has brought the Lombardi Trophy back to Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Favre has also paid dearly for his devotion to the brutal game of professional football. Priding himself on his ability to withstand incredible levels of physical pain and to continue playing when most players would head to the sidelines, Favre admitted last year to a dependency on Vicodin pain killers. But he faced his problem like he faces opposing defensive linemen, head-on, and voluntarily admitted himself into the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas for drug counseling. In Favre, Brett share

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 038549050X
• ISBN 13: 9780385490504
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 287