How many great catches have there been in the history of the NFL? Hundreds? Thousands? Mention "The Catch,"though, and fans will think of only one: Joe Montana to Dwight Clark, the NFC Championship game, the Dallas Cowboys vs. the San Francisco 49ers, January 10, 1982. It changed the game and The Game. This is the story of the pieces that fell into place to allow it to happen and what it meant to the players, to the fans, and to the future of professional football. Drama like this couldn't be scripted any better. Dallas was still reigning as America's team. San Francisco was hungry for a ticket to its first Super Bowl. With less than a minute left, the 49ers were one touchdown and extra point away from pulling it off, six yards from the end zone. Too Tall Jones and the Cowboys' celebrated defense were primed to stop Montana and the 49ers. The play came in from head coach Bill Walsh: Sprint Right Option. It almost never worked in practice. But this was game on. It had to work. Montana took the snap and rolled right. With 700 pounds of prime defensive talent bearing down on him, leaning backward, in his last moment of upright balance, Montana sent the ball to the back of the end zone. The primary receiver had slipped and was not in place. But the secondary receiver, Dwight Clark, was streaking toward the corner, leaping higher than he ever had or ever would again. With his arms reaching for the sky, his fingers splayed, he snatched the impossibly high pass, briefly lost control, regained it . . . touchdown! Franchises, careers, lives, and dynasties all changed in that moment. Sports journalist Gary Myers was there, and now with fresh revelations from key players, including Montana, Clark, Ronnie Lott, Randy Cross, Tony Dorsett, Drew Pearson, Charlie Waters, and others, he takes fans back to an iconic game and one of the NFL's most breathtaking plays. Myers presents new details on the rise of Montana and the 49ers and the fall of the '80s Cowboys. He reveals what Bill Walsh saw in an overlooked third-round draft pick named Joe Montana and how Walsh accidentally discovered Dwight Clark. He shows how legendary Dallas head coach Tom Landry, who as reputed did put winning first, was not above crying over players whose personal careers had to come second. He celebrates forgotten heroes like journeyman running back Lenvil Elliott, who picked that particular game–and that final drive down the field–to shine. It's all here, from the death threat that spooked Montana during the game to 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo's bad luck when his view of the historic play was literally blocked by a horse's ass. The Catch is both the ultimate replay of a sports moment for the ages and a penetrating look into the inner dynamics of the NFL.

The Catch: One Play, Two Dynasties, and the Game That Changed the NFL

Sports & Outdoors

Myers, Gary

Football (American)

Crown/Archetype

Biographies & Memoirs

Crown

A behind-the-scenes look at the high-pressure lives of NFL head coaches Coaching Confidential chronicles a year in the life of an NFL head coach. But not just one head coach. A composite portrait is drawn through interviews with at least 20 current and former head coaches (including Super Bowl winners such as Bill Parcells, Tom Coughlin, Jimmy Johnson, Tony Dungy, Sean Payton, Mike Shanahan, Dick Vermeil, Mike Holmgren, Brian Billick, and Joe Gibbs), taking us through the professional and personal challenges of the job. This book covers the draft, free agency, big trades, training camp, family crisis, player troubles, coaching relationships with members of the staff, coach-owner dynamics, rivalries, Xs and Os, the playoffs--all the way to the Super Bowl. Just getting to Sunday is almost a relief for NFL head coaches. It's during that three-hour window 16 days a year when they can simply concentrate on what they do best, which is trying to win football games. But the job is, of course, much more than that.

Coaching Confidential: Inside the Fraternity of NFL Coaches

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Highlights include excerpts from, and/or discussions of, the following materials: Trademark and Unfair Competition Law (covers significant federal legislation, including the Trademark Law Treaty Implementation Act of 1998 and the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act of 1999); Patent Law (covers the Patent Reform Act of 1999 and Supreme Court decisions); Copyright Law (carefully explains new Supreme Court interpretations and the wide–ranging provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998); and Federalism (Supreme Court opinions regarding states' Eleventh Immunity to patent infringement claims, as well as others).

2005 Supplement to Intellectual Property, Cases and Materials, Second Edition, 2004

LaFrance, Mary

Langr, David L.

Intellectual Property

West

Highlights include excerpts from, and/or discussions of, the following materials: Trademark and Unfair Competition Law (covers significant federal legislation, including the Trademark Law Treaty Implementation Act of 1998 and the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act of 1999); Patent Law (covers the Patent Reform Act of 1999 and Supreme Court decisions); Copyright Law (carefully explains new Supreme Court interpretations and the widendash;ranging provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998); and Federalism (Supreme Court opinions regarding states' Eleventh Immunity to patent infringement claims, as well as others).

Intellectual Property: Cases and Material: 2006 (American Casebook Series)

Lange, David

West Group

As intellectual property has grown in importance, the interaction between antitrust law and intellectual property has developed into a crucial part of the legal landscape. This new text is the first casebook expressly designed for a course on the intersection of intellectual property and antitrust law or for an advanced seminar on intellectual property misuse. It may also be suitable for supplemental use in a course on intellectual property, licensing, or litigation. Written by a professor who has worked in both the antitrust and intellectual property fields for over two decades, the casebook addresses both the rights of authors and inventors and the interest of society in promoting competition, expanding its base of knowledge, improving technology, and protecting consumer welfare.

The Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials (American Casebook Series)

Business

West Academic Publishing

The Third Edition has been thoroughly updated to include all significant legislative and judicial developments through the end of 2006, as well as pending Supreme Court cases. In addition, existing materials have been streamlined and restructured, and new topics introduced. In this way, the authors have enhanced both the depth and breadth of coverage, and facilitated short forays into optional topics, while giving professors tremendous flexibility in choosing the areas they wish to emphasize. The resulting materials are easily adaptable to survey courses encompassing anywhere from 3 to 6 credit hours, In addition, by selecting among the topics presented within each broad subject area, a professor may change the emphasis or scope of the survey course from one year to the next without ever having to change textbooks.

Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials (American Casebook Series)

Book by Lange, David L., LaFrance, Mary, Myers, Gary

Intellectual Property, Cases and Materials

Lange, David L.

2001 Supplement to Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials (American Casebook Series and Other Coursebooks)

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The Catch: One Play, Two Dynasties, and the Game That Changed the NFL

The Catch: One Play, Two Dynasties, and the Game That Changed the NFL

Coaching Confidential: Inside the Fraternity of NFL Coaches

Coaching Confidential: Inside the Fraternity of NFL Coaches

2005 Supplement to Intellectual Property, Cases and Materials, Second Edition, 2004

Intellectual Property: Cases and Material: 2006 (American Casebook Series)

The Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials (American Casebook Series)

Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials (American Casebook Series)

Intellectual Property, Cases and Materials

2001 Supplement to Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials (American Casebook Series and Other Coursebooks)