The Throwback Special
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Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction Winner of The Paris Review's Terry Southern Prize for Humor "Chris Bachelder is a witty, compassionate troublemaker, and we need more like him." —George Saunders
Here is the absorbing story of twenty-two men who gather every fall to painstakingly reenact what ESPN called “the most shocking play in NFL history” and the Washington Redskins dubbed the “Throwback Special”: the November 1985 play in which the Redskins’ Joe Theismann had his leg horr...






















