Jim McMahon :: essays research papers

     The book that I read was "McMahon" by Jim McMahon. This biography was mostly about Jim McMahons 1985 football season. McMahon was the quarterback for the Chicago Bears. He start uped eleven clock out of the thirteen games he played in. McMahon emerged as one of the NFLs top quarterbacks while earning his commencement ceremony Pro Bowl appearance. He averaged 64% completion the first five weeks before injury had began at San Francisco on October 17, 1985. He threw a career high 15 touchdown passes. He threw 9 of them in the first quad games. McMahon led the squad with a 5.4 yard rushing average. He missed three games between November 10 through November 24 with shoulder tendonitis. He didnt start against the Vikings on September 19 due to a stiff neck. He entered the Vikings game in the third quarter and put on one of the best(p) shows of the NFL 85 season, throwing touchdown passes on the first two plays and three in just no and a half quarters to turn a 17-9 deficit into a 33-24 win. McMahon was named NFC umbrage player-of-the-week in the season opener after 23 of 34 for 274 yards, two touchdown effort in 38-28 win over the bucs. He passed for season-high 292 yards at Tampa on October 6. McMahon end 13 of 19 passes for 160 yards and 3 touchdowns caught a touchdown pass from Payton and rushed for 36 yards against the Redskins on September 29. He threw 3 touchdown passes in playoffs and scored the first touchdown against the Rams on a 16 yard run. He didnt throw any interceptions in 3 post-season games in 66 attempts. Jim McMahons Super Bowl performance included 12 of 20 for 256 yards.     Jim McMahon had plenty of obstructors that he had to overcome in his 1985 season. One obstacle he had to overcome was his shoulder tendonitis. When he was out for three games. Another obstacle that he had to overcome right before the Super Bowl was a really bad sore on his butt. Pain killers and medicine wouldnt wo rk. So he found a guy that used needles to relieve the pain. He was using that method and it was working, the sore was going away. The team had to leave to go get produce for the Super Bowl so they had to fly him to that town. The head guy said that the person couldnt go on the team plane because he wasnt one of the team trainers.