![]() ![]() Along the way, mishaps, misunderstandings, and grievances pile up, and the comforting traditions holding the group together threaten to give way.The Throwback Special is a moving and comic tale filled with pitch-perfect observations about manhood, marriage, middle age, and the rituals we all enact as part of being alive. Over the course of a weekend, the men reveal their secret hopes, fears, and passions as they choose roles, spend a long night of the soul preparing for the play, and finally enact their bizarre ritual for what may be the last time. Chris Bachelder introduces us to Charles, a psychologist whose expertise is in high demand George, a garrulous public librarian Fat Michael, envied and despised by the others for being exquisitely fit Jeff, a recently divorced man who has become a theorist of marriage and more. THE THROWBACK SPECIAL by Chris Bachelder RELEASE DATE: MaIn this comic dissection of male bonding, a group of men gathers for their yearly celebration and re-enactment of a notorious play in professional football. ![]() Here is the absorbing story of twenty-two men who gather every fall to painstakingly reenact what ESPN called "the most shocking play in NFL history" and the Washington Redskins dubbed the "Throwback Special": the November 1985 play in which the Redskins' Joe Theismann had his leg horribly broken by Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants live on Monday Night Football. ![]()
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