Author: Joe Montana
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805042788
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Montana combines instruction with inspiration and anecdotes and highlights from his storied career. 125 color photos & diagrams.
Joe Montana's Art and Magic of Quarterbacking
Author: Joe Montana
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805042788
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Montana combines instruction with inspiration and anecdotes and highlights from his storied career. 125 color photos & diagrams.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805042788
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Montana combines instruction with inspiration and anecdotes and highlights from his storied career. 125 color photos & diagrams.
Montana
Author: Keith Dunnavant
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250017866
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Rich in anecdotal detail, insight and context, Montana is a powerful story about a man who was defined by his intense competitiveness, and how this intangibly helped him become one of the ionic figures in football history. As long as football is played, Joe Montana will be synonymous with the heart-pounding rally. Seemingly impervious to the pressure of a scoreboard deficit, the quarterback known as Joe Cool brought a steadying calm to every huddle, especially when the situation seemed especially dire. His reputation for miracles began to take root at the University of Notre Dame. In the 1979 Cotton Bowl, he overcame the flu, hypothermia and a 22-point deficit to lead the Fighting Irish to a stunning victory over Houston. This narrative continued in the NFL, as he engineered 31 fourth-quarter comebacks, including victories known in professional football lore as The Catch and The Drive, forever casting his career in a heroic glow. While leading the San Francisco 49ers to four Super Bowl championships over a nine-year period, establishing a new standard for passing efficiency, and twice earning the league's Most Valuable Player award, Montana became the signature quarterback of the 1980s and one of the greatest ever to play the game. Overcoming his own limitations, which caused him to be underrated coming out of Notre Dame, he quickly mastered Bill Walsh's West Coast Offense, and thereby, helped reinvent offensive football. But it was rarely easy. Like the rallies he so often produced, his life was filled with the sort of tension that made his journey seem routinely dramatic: The father who pushed him. The high school coach who challenged his commitment. The college coach who very nearly squandered him. The back surgery that almost ended his career. The younger athlete who tried to take his job. In Montana, acclaimed author Keith Dunnavant sketches the definitive portrait of a man who repeatedly defied the odds, on and off the field.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250017866
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Rich in anecdotal detail, insight and context, Montana is a powerful story about a man who was defined by his intense competitiveness, and how this intangibly helped him become one of the ionic figures in football history. As long as football is played, Joe Montana will be synonymous with the heart-pounding rally. Seemingly impervious to the pressure of a scoreboard deficit, the quarterback known as Joe Cool brought a steadying calm to every huddle, especially when the situation seemed especially dire. His reputation for miracles began to take root at the University of Notre Dame. In the 1979 Cotton Bowl, he overcame the flu, hypothermia and a 22-point deficit to lead the Fighting Irish to a stunning victory over Houston. This narrative continued in the NFL, as he engineered 31 fourth-quarter comebacks, including victories known in professional football lore as The Catch and The Drive, forever casting his career in a heroic glow. While leading the San Francisco 49ers to four Super Bowl championships over a nine-year period, establishing a new standard for passing efficiency, and twice earning the league's Most Valuable Player award, Montana became the signature quarterback of the 1980s and one of the greatest ever to play the game. Overcoming his own limitations, which caused him to be underrated coming out of Notre Dame, he quickly mastered Bill Walsh's West Coast Offense, and thereby, helped reinvent offensive football. But it was rarely easy. Like the rallies he so often produced, his life was filled with the sort of tension that made his journey seem routinely dramatic: The father who pushed him. The high school coach who challenged his commitment. The college coach who very nearly squandered him. The back surgery that almost ended his career. The younger athlete who tried to take his job. In Montana, acclaimed author Keith Dunnavant sketches the definitive portrait of a man who repeatedly defied the odds, on and off the field.
Audibles
Author: Joe Montana
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780380713264
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780380713264
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Joe Montana
Author: Adam Woog
Publisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438142382
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Nicknamed "Joe Cool" for his ability to remain calm under pressure, Joe Montana's career highlights are staples of NFL highlight films.
Publisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438142382
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Nicknamed "Joe Cool" for his ability to remain calm under pressure, Joe Montana's career highlights are staples of NFL highlight films.
Joe Montana's Art And Magic of Quarterbacking
Author: Joe Montana
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780756776725
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Over 16 NFL seasons Joe Montana established his preeminence among quarterbacks. Here, he shows what makes a quarterback successful. Includes in-depth explanations of the proper technique for every element of the game -- throwing mechanics, footwork, handoffs, sprint-outs, draw plays & play-action passes, short & long passing plays, etc. Montana proceeds to the more sophisticated aspects of quarterbacking, such as reading defenses, audibles, finding the open man, & engineering game-winning drives. He also explores the intangible elements of great quarterbacking: leadership, discipline, commitment, competitive drive, etc. Color photos.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780756776725
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Over 16 NFL seasons Joe Montana established his preeminence among quarterbacks. Here, he shows what makes a quarterback successful. Includes in-depth explanations of the proper technique for every element of the game -- throwing mechanics, footwork, handoffs, sprint-outs, draw plays & play-action passes, short & long passing plays, etc. Montana proceeds to the more sophisticated aspects of quarterbacking, such as reading defenses, audibles, finding the open man, & engineering game-winning drives. He also explores the intangible elements of great quarterbacking: leadership, discipline, commitment, competitive drive, etc. Color photos.
Montana
Author: Joe Montana
Publisher: Turner Pub
ISBN: 9781570362361
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
A scrapbook-style biography follows the former quarterback's record-breaking career and offers his reflections on life after professional sports
Publisher: Turner Pub
ISBN: 9781570362361
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
A scrapbook-style biography follows the former quarterback's record-breaking career and offers his reflections on life after professional sports
The Ultimate Scoring Drive
Author: David B. Wall
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512707619
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This book likens a mans life and faith journey to a football scoring drive. Drafted by the Followers, you the reader become the running back for an extraordinary team. Not far into your offensive drive, you realize that you face eleven hard-hitting defensive opponents. Each adversary uses a different tactic to stop your progress. While nobody can penetrate the opposition on their own, by following your lead blocker you will be heading downfield into a life of overwhelming victory. This book is about every mans story and Gods story, underscored by NFL players experiences on the field of life. Discover how to drive to victory by following the One who has conquered all. Finish The Ultimate Scoring Drive with some other men or on your own. Discussion questions for each chapter can be found online (free) at www.UltimateScoringDrive.com.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512707619
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This book likens a mans life and faith journey to a football scoring drive. Drafted by the Followers, you the reader become the running back for an extraordinary team. Not far into your offensive drive, you realize that you face eleven hard-hitting defensive opponents. Each adversary uses a different tactic to stop your progress. While nobody can penetrate the opposition on their own, by following your lead blocker you will be heading downfield into a life of overwhelming victory. This book is about every mans story and Gods story, underscored by NFL players experiences on the field of life. Discover how to drive to victory by following the One who has conquered all. Finish The Ultimate Scoring Drive with some other men or on your own. Discussion questions for each chapter can be found online (free) at www.UltimateScoringDrive.com.
Super Bowl Marriage
Author: Terry Owens
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0307551113
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A Playbook for the Greatest Team Sport Ever Played This could be the team’s breakout year. A new coach. A new system. And a couple of impact players that could take the team deep into the playoffs–even the Super Bowl. The potential is there, but will the team come together? Will they bounce back if they lose a couple of early games? Are they tough enough to play through the injuries and still perform at the championship level? Every NFL team that’s serious about winning a title has to answer those questions. And so does every husband-and-wife team that’s serious about a Super Bowl Marriage. Super Bowl Marriage tells the stories of some of the NFL’s most dramatic games, toughest players, and creative coaches–then skillfully links their lessons to life’s greatest team sport--marriage. Test your knowledge of the Super Bowl-era and learn how Bill Walsh, John Elway, Brian Urlacher, and others can help your marriage team win the championship game. From the honeymoon training camp through the fourth quarter final drive of growing old together, you and your spouse need to keep your game day focus. Success in marriage will depend on your ability to give it all for the team, do what the coaches say, and play through the pain. You two can hoist the trophy as winners in a life-long, loving relationship. Finally, a marriage playbook for the intense and exhilarating team sport of being husband and wife! Marriage can be as thrilling, demanding, and complex as any high stakes football game. Its potential for unparalleled satisfaction and joy is matched only by its potential for incredible pain and disillusionment. On the gridiron of life, where the consequences for fumbling can be disastrous, marriage is risky. You can stand on the sidelines, hoping things work out with your spouse, or rise to the challenge and know the thrill of a Super Bowl Marriage.
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0307551113
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A Playbook for the Greatest Team Sport Ever Played This could be the team’s breakout year. A new coach. A new system. And a couple of impact players that could take the team deep into the playoffs–even the Super Bowl. The potential is there, but will the team come together? Will they bounce back if they lose a couple of early games? Are they tough enough to play through the injuries and still perform at the championship level? Every NFL team that’s serious about winning a title has to answer those questions. And so does every husband-and-wife team that’s serious about a Super Bowl Marriage. Super Bowl Marriage tells the stories of some of the NFL’s most dramatic games, toughest players, and creative coaches–then skillfully links their lessons to life’s greatest team sport--marriage. Test your knowledge of the Super Bowl-era and learn how Bill Walsh, John Elway, Brian Urlacher, and others can help your marriage team win the championship game. From the honeymoon training camp through the fourth quarter final drive of growing old together, you and your spouse need to keep your game day focus. Success in marriage will depend on your ability to give it all for the team, do what the coaches say, and play through the pain. You two can hoist the trophy as winners in a life-long, loving relationship. Finally, a marriage playbook for the intense and exhilarating team sport of being husband and wife! Marriage can be as thrilling, demanding, and complex as any high stakes football game. Its potential for unparalleled satisfaction and joy is matched only by its potential for incredible pain and disillusionment. On the gridiron of life, where the consequences for fumbling can be disastrous, marriage is risky. You can stand on the sidelines, hoping things work out with your spouse, or rise to the challenge and know the thrill of a Super Bowl Marriage.
The Winning Spirit
Author: Joe Montana
Publisher: Random House of Canada
ISBN: 9780812974980
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
One of the greatest NFL quarterbacks of all time and a leading motivational coach join forces to present sixteen timeless and effective principles that promote peak performance in every life endeavor, arguing that the key to performance excellence is fueled by personal integrity. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Publisher: Random House of Canada
ISBN: 9780812974980
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
One of the greatest NFL quarterbacks of all time and a leading motivational coach join forces to present sixteen timeless and effective principles that promote peak performance in every life endeavor, arguing that the key to performance excellence is fueled by personal integrity. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
The Catch
Author: Gary Myers
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 0307462447
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
How many great catches have there been in the history of the NFL? Hundreds? Thousands? Mention "The Catch,"though, and fans will think of only one: Joe Montana to Dwight Clark, the NFC Championship game, the Dallas Cowboys vs. the San Francisco 49ers, January 10, 1982. It changed the game and The Game. This is the story of the pieces that fell into place to allow it to happen and what it meant to the players, to the fans, and to the future of professional football. Drama like this couldn't be scripted any better. Dallas was still reigning as America's team. San Francisco was hungry for a ticket to its first Super Bowl. With less than a minute left, the 49ers were one touchdown and extra point away from pulling it off, six yards from the end zone. Too Tall Jones and the Cowboys' celebrated defense were primed to stop Montana and the 49ers. The play came in from head coach Bill Walsh: Sprint Right Option. It almost never worked in practice. But this was game on. It had to work. Montana took the snap and rolled right. With 700 pounds of prime defensive talent bearing down on him, leaning backward, in his last moment of upright balance, Montana sent the ball to the back of the end zone. The primary receiver had slipped and was not in place. But the secondary receiver, Dwight Clark, was streaking toward the corner, leaping higher than he ever had or ever would again. With his arms reaching for the sky, his fingers splayed, he snatched the impossibly high pass, briefly lost control, regained it . . . touchdown! Franchises, careers, lives, and dynasties all changed in that moment. Sports journalist Gary Myers was there, and now with fresh revelations from key players, including Montana, Clark, Ronnie Lott, Randy Cross, Tony Dorsett, Drew Pearson, Charlie Waters, and others, he takes fans back to an iconic game and one of the NFL's most breathtaking plays. Myers presents new details on the rise of Montana and the 49ers and the fall of the '80s Cowboys. He reveals what Bill Walsh saw in an overlooked third-round draft pick named Joe Montana and how Walsh accidentally discovered Dwight Clark. He shows how legendary Dallas head coach Tom Landry, who as reputed did put winning first, was not above crying over players whose personal careers had to come second. He celebrates forgotten heroes like journeyman running back Lenvil Elliott, who picked that particular game–and that final drive down the field–to shine. It's all here, from the death threat that spooked Montana during the game to 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo's bad luck when his view of the historic play was literally blocked by a horse's ass. The Catch is both the ultimate replay of a sports moment for the ages and a penetrating look into the inner dynamics of the NFL.
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 0307462447
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
How many great catches have there been in the history of the NFL? Hundreds? Thousands? Mention "The Catch,"though, and fans will think of only one: Joe Montana to Dwight Clark, the NFC Championship game, the Dallas Cowboys vs. the San Francisco 49ers, January 10, 1982. It changed the game and The Game. This is the story of the pieces that fell into place to allow it to happen and what it meant to the players, to the fans, and to the future of professional football. Drama like this couldn't be scripted any better. Dallas was still reigning as America's team. San Francisco was hungry for a ticket to its first Super Bowl. With less than a minute left, the 49ers were one touchdown and extra point away from pulling it off, six yards from the end zone. Too Tall Jones and the Cowboys' celebrated defense were primed to stop Montana and the 49ers. The play came in from head coach Bill Walsh: Sprint Right Option. It almost never worked in practice. But this was game on. It had to work. Montana took the snap and rolled right. With 700 pounds of prime defensive talent bearing down on him, leaning backward, in his last moment of upright balance, Montana sent the ball to the back of the end zone. The primary receiver had slipped and was not in place. But the secondary receiver, Dwight Clark, was streaking toward the corner, leaping higher than he ever had or ever would again. With his arms reaching for the sky, his fingers splayed, he snatched the impossibly high pass, briefly lost control, regained it . . . touchdown! Franchises, careers, lives, and dynasties all changed in that moment. Sports journalist Gary Myers was there, and now with fresh revelations from key players, including Montana, Clark, Ronnie Lott, Randy Cross, Tony Dorsett, Drew Pearson, Charlie Waters, and others, he takes fans back to an iconic game and one of the NFL's most breathtaking plays. Myers presents new details on the rise of Montana and the 49ers and the fall of the '80s Cowboys. He reveals what Bill Walsh saw in an overlooked third-round draft pick named Joe Montana and how Walsh accidentally discovered Dwight Clark. He shows how legendary Dallas head coach Tom Landry, who as reputed did put winning first, was not above crying over players whose personal careers had to come second. He celebrates forgotten heroes like journeyman running back Lenvil Elliott, who picked that particular game–and that final drive down the field–to shine. It's all here, from the death threat that spooked Montana during the game to 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo's bad luck when his view of the historic play was literally blocked by a horse's ass. The Catch is both the ultimate replay of a sports moment for the ages and a penetrating look into the inner dynamics of the NFL.