![]() But the play itself is not the novel’s subject it is instead the means through which Bachelder, in one hilarious scene after another, investigates the disappointments and shortcomings of the middle-aged men who gather every year to reenact it. ![]() This grisly moment is at the center of Chris Bachelder’s novel The Throwback Special, which takes its title from the name the Redskins gave the play. It sounded like two muzzled gunshots going off, Theismann later recalled. As Theismann struggled, several other defenders piled on, and his leg bent sideways at the knee, snapping beneath him. New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor was the first to reach Theismann, jumping onto his back and dragging him down. The play was supposed to trick defenders into following Riggins, but it failed. In 1985, Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann ran a trick play known as a flea-flicker in which he handed off the ball to running back John Riggins, who then tossed it back to him. ![]() $25.95.Įvery November for the past sixteen years, a group of twenty-two men have gathered at a two-and-a-half-star hotel chain off Interstate 95, “recognized in online reviews for its exceptional service, atrocious service, pretty fountain, and bedbugs,” to reenact one of the most gruesome injuries in NFL history. ![]()
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