No Plan B: Peyton Manning's Comeback with the Denver Broncos [Hardcover]

Sometimes when I read Mark Kiszla, a talented, provocative sports columnist, I think incite. After reading No Plan B, the thought is insight. Kiz has given us inside, intelligent, insightful information about the recovery and the return of quarterback Peyton Manning with the Denver Broncos. Make this a Manning-Must. The book is Plan A Plus.While dutifully reporting the teams game-by-game highlights and ultimate disastrous loss to the Ravens in the playoffs, the author primarily focuses on profiling Manning through a series of revealing prisms. . . . The smoothly written book shows Manning as both a bossy, obsessive perfectionist and a likable, loyal, funny friend and teammate. VERDICT: Manning is as popular as anyone in football, and this insightful piece of journalism will be of interest to all fans.After suffering one of the cruelest cuts in NFL history by a team where he spent his entire professional career, quarterback Peyton Manning put his injured neck and sterling reputation on the line with the Denver Broncos in the fall of 2012. There is no Plan B, Broncos executive John Elway said the previous March when he signed the thirty-six year-old Manning: I don't have a Plan B. I'm going with Plan A. In No Plan B, veteran sports writer Mark Kiszla follows Manning from training campwhich drew a record 84,000 spectatorsthrough the regular season, as one of the most hyped comebacks in sports history dominates the week-in, week-out theater of the NFL.Peyton Manning won the Super Bowl, hosted Saturday Night Live, and threw 399 touchdown passes during 14 amazing years as an NFL quarterback.Then he got fired.Indianapolis no longer valued Manning, a four-time winner of the leagues Most Valuable Player award.Get this: The Colts cut the most-liked athlete in America. And Im glad they did, Denver Broncos executive John Elway said.The Broncos made the most buzz-worthy signing in the history of NFL free agency during March of 2012. Despite missing a season with a l3Q