title: Touchdown! Great Quarterbacks in Football History (Step into Reading, A Step 4 Book)
author:  Darice Bailer 
description: Stories and pictures about six great quarterbacks in football history.
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  CHAPTER ONE
  
  > The Blind Side
  
  > BACK STORY
  
  > FROM THE SNAP of the ball to the snap of the first bone is closer to four
  > seconds than to five. One Mississippi: The quarterback of the Washington
  > Redskins, Joe Theismann, turns and hands the ball to running back John
  > Riggins. He watches Riggins run two steps forward, turn, and flip the ball
  > back to him. It’s what most people know as a “flea-flicker,” but the
  > Redskins call it a “throw back special.” Two Mississippi: Theismann searches
  > for a receiver but instead sees Harry Carson coming straight at him. It’s a
  > runing down—the start of the second quarter, first and 10 at midfield, with
  > the score tied 7–7—and the New York Giants’ linebacker has been so
  > completely suckered by the fake that he’s deep in the Redskins’ backfield.
  > Carson thinks he’s come to tackle Riggins but Riggins is long gone, so
  > Carson just keeps running, tow