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The Throwback Special is the story of 22 common guys who collect each show up to reenact what ESPN has called "the most surprising play in NFL history": the November 1985 play where Joe Theismann of the Washington Redskins experienced his calf horribly shattered by Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants on Mon Night Soccer. (The play was known by the Redskins as "the Throwback Special".) During the period of a weekend, we follow the men as they choose functions; spend an extended nights the soul exposing their secret expectations, fears, and passions as they plan the game; and lastly enact their strange and yet oh, so American ritual for what might be the last time. Along with his trademark "microfine sense of humor and tragic sense of record" (Michael Chabon), Chris Bachelder fills his moving and very funny story with pitch-perfect observations about manhood, marriage, and middle age.
