Foreword : Blowing air into the bubble / by Cynthia Zordich -- Introduction : Letting go / by Bill Lyon -- Rocky's road : the Rocky Bleier story -- Concrete Charlie : the Chuck Bednarik story -- Amazing grace : the Pat Summerall story -- The friend : the Tom Brookshier story -- Hollywood : the Thomas Henderson story -- The American dream : The Vai Sikahema story -- The Zen warrior : the Ronnie Lott story -- Ray Bob and the .38 : the Ray Rhodes story -- Fallen : the Ron Wolfley story -- The natural : the John Brodie story -- Life sentence : the Johnny Sample story -- Jaws : the Ron Jaworski story --Great expectations : the Bill Fralic story -- Tall ain't all : the Stump Mitchell story -- Clotheslines and Yorkies : the Tommy McDonald story -- Brain surgeons and long snappers : the Todd Christensen story -- Hands of the hawk : the Larry Wilson story -- The oak and the cypress : the Kimberly Lewis story -- The zipper club : the Dan Reeves story -- Bears and Grabowskis : the Mike Ditka story.