Griffin, Robert, III: athlete, leader, believer

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Foreword / Jim Kelly -- On athletes, hype, and football books: an introduction to RG3 -- Nobody gets famous by accident: creating Robert Griffin III -- From Bobby Douglass to Timothy Tebow to RG3: a brief history of running quarterbacks -- Pro Day and the inexact science of NFL scouting -- The hotter the heat, the harder the steel: selling Robert Griffin III -- What the Redskins needed was quarterbacking -- Robert Griffin III is sensational (but so is Kyle Shanahan) -- Warriors and humans: on injury, Marcus Lattimore, and RG3 -- Fight for Old Dixie: a brief radical history of the Washington Redskins -- A grown man's game: Robert Griffin III is human -- God and quarterbacking: faith, prosperity, and pro football -- Comparing the quarterback classes: 1983, 2004, and 2012 -- Pursuit of perfection -- Vick, irony, and injury -- Epilogue: He'll never be new again.;Chronicles the life, career, and faith of the quarterback, and details the trials that marked his rise to NFL superstardom. Foreword / Jim Kelly -- On athletes, hype, and football books: an introduction to RG3 -- Nobody gets famous by accident: creating Robert Griffin III -- From Bobby Douglass to Timothy Tebow to RG3: a brief history of running quarterbacks -- Pro Day and the inexact science of NFL scouting -- The hotter the heat, the harder the steel: selling Robert Griffin III -- What the Redskins needed was quarterbacking -- Robert Griffin III is sensational (but so is Kyle Shanahan) -- Warriors and humans: on injury, Marcus Lattimore, and RG3 -- Fight for Old Dixie: a brief radical history of the Washington Redskins -- A grown man's game: Robert Griffin III is human -- God and quarterbacking: faith, prosperity, and pro football -- Comparing the quarterback classes: 1983, 2004, and 2012 -- Pursuit of perfection -- Vick, irony, and injury -- Epilogue: He'll never be new again.