You Can't Catch Sunshine

by Maynard, Don; Shepatin, Matthew; Namath, Joe

• ISBN13: 9781600783753
• ISBN10: 1600783759
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: Triumph Books

Summary

You Can't Catch Sunshine is the astonishing true story of Jets wide receiver Don Maynard, a laid-back speedster from a dusty corner of Texas whose unlikely friendship with a brash, young quarterback named Joe Namath resulted in the most unlikely upset in football history: Super Bowl III.

Author Biography

Don Maynard is a former wide receiver and member of the All-Time AFL team and is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was the first wide receiver to eclipse more than 10,000 yards in his career, and he caught more than 50 passes for more than 1,000 yards in five different seasons. Matthew Shepatin is a journalist whose stories on American culture, entertainment, and sports have appeared in Black Book, Esquire, the Los Angeles Times, New York magazine, Playboy, Radar, Slate, and the Village Voice. He is the author of Then Madden Said to Summerall: The Best NFL Stories Ever Told and is a contributing writer on The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything and The Mad Dog Hall of Fame: The Ultimate Top-Ten Rankings of the Best in Sports. Joe Namath is a former NFL quarterback and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
No Rest	p. 1
No Eligibility	p. 19
No Wives	p. 35
No Sideburns	p. 59
No Giant	p. 81
No League	p. 97
No Team	p. 113
No Joe	p. 131
No Liftoff	p. 151
No Knees	p. 171
No Guarantee	p. 185
No Heidi Ho	p. 201
No Breeze in Windy Shea	p. 223
No Champagne	p. 241
Epilogue: The Real Super Bowl is Today	p. 263
Co-Author's Note	p. 267
Acknowledgments	p. 269
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