Football's Greatest Hail Mary Passes and Other Crunch-Time Heroics

by Matt Chandler

Overview

When time is running short and the Lombardi Trophy is at stake, some players seize the moment and make themselves legends. From Hail Mary passes to tackle-breaking touchdown runs, some of football's greatest moments are chronicled in vivid fashion here. You've got sideline pass to the action.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496687319
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	08/01/2020
Series:	Sports Illustrated Kids Crunch Time
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	780L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

About the Author

Matt Chandler is a newspaper editor and freelance journalist from New York. Matt grew up in a family of hunters and developed his love of the outdoors early in life as a Boy Scout. Matt has been writing professionally since 1996. The New York Press Association named him an award-winning writer in 2007 and 2010.

Table of Contents

Introduction Game-Ending Greatness 4

Chapter 1 Hail Mary Heroes 6

Chapter 2 Pick-Six Gems 14

Chapter 3 Runaway Runs 20

Chapter 4 Kings of Kicking 28

Chapter 5 Best of the Rest 36

Walk-Off Wins 44

Beyond the NFL 45

Glossary 46

Read More 47

Internet Sites 47

Source Notes 47

Index 48

Interviews

Features today's most popular team sports: football, basketball, baseball, and hockey and their respective superstars, both past and modern-day; Action-packed photographs provide a full-color, in-the-game perspective to some of sports greatest moments; Filled with snappy, memorable true stories of sports that young athletes will remember and retell to friends