Just around the bend

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the Denver Post

Through the words and images of the Denver Post, this book captures the impact of Peyton Manning's arrival in Denver, from his signing in March and his first game in a Broncos uniform through the team's push to the top of the AFC standings and into the playoffs. Essential reading for Broncos fans heading into the team's second season with Manning under center, this work celebrates the reemergence of a star quarterback in the aftermath of a career-threatening injury. With stories and imagery from the award-winning staff at Colorado's large.

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Jim McMahon with Bob Verdi

In the midst of all the publicity for the 1985-86 Bears and media favorite "Refrigerator" Perry, the Midway Monster most in the spotlight was unconventional quarterback McMahon, with his punk-rock haircut, sunglasses and headbands. Here, with the assistance of Chicago Tribune sports columnist Verdi, he tells of his life and his attitudes. Not surprisingly, he views himself primarily as an entertainer rather than an athlete and on the printed page maintains the ruthless candor that has made him controversial. He makes no attempt to conceal his contempt for Bears team president Michael McCaskey, his distant and cool relationship with his parents and his feeling that a lot of sportswriting belongs in the category of fiction and not reportage. He also has very little good to say about his alma mater, Brigham Young. His autobiography is refreshing and real, not unlike the man himself.

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Ron Knapp

Profiles the personal life and football career of the man who succeeded Joe Montana as quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers.

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Ray Lucas with David Seigerman

In Under Pressure, Ray Lucas provides fans with a timely, uncensored look at pro football's play-at-all-costs culture. Overcoming questions about his size and skills as a quarterback, Lucas persevered and went on to play seven seasons in the NFL. His professional football career, however, came to a sudden end at age 30, when a neck injury caused him to collapse on the sideline during training camp. Instructed by NFL doctors that surgery wasn't an option, Lucas turned to painkillers for relief, but as his tolerance for medication escalated and his NFL insurance coverage expired, he began to pla.