Kirjahaku

Brian Kinchen was a thirty-eight-year-old father of four and seventh-grade Bible teacher whose professional football career had been over for three years when he received the call of a lifetime. The New England Patriots needed him to fill in for their injured long snapper for the remainder of the 2003 season and the playoffs. In the hands of Pulitzer Prize-winner Jeffrey Marx, Brian's remarkable true story becomes a celebration of the resilience of the human spirit. For all lovers of the game of football, The Long Snapper reveals the grit and glory of America's favorite sport.

A former ballboy for the Baltimore Colts describes his reunion with one of his favorite players, Joe Ehrmann, a one-time defensive lineman who became an ordained minister and who has developed a program called "Building Men for Others," an innovative approach that teaches high-school boys what it means to be a man. 125,000 first printing.