Staubach: First Down, Lifetime To Go

Description for STAUBACH: FIRST DOWN, LIFETIME TO GO by Roger Staubach with Sam Blair and Bob St John:

Roger Staubach's life reads like a Who's Who of American football. He has won every major award that can be given to a football player, and the only quarterback in history to launch a professional career after four years of navy active duty and lead his team to a Super Bowl victory.

Yet, with all of these accolades, Roger Staubach is a man of great humility, courage, and conviction. This is Roger's personal story. As he describes his life you realize that here is a great athlete who is equally rare as a human being.

Although a fierce competitor, the permeating influence in Roger's life is not football, but his family and his faith. A devout Christian, Roger dedicates his life---both on and off the field---to the glory of God. He serves his family with a deep and lasting dedication.

There is humor and human interest, certainly tragedy as well as triumph, Staubach has been forced to face greater challenges in life than he ever knew on the field---the foremost being the final months of 1973 when his mother was dying from cancer. He was staggered by the news of her illness during summer training camp, when he was battling to regain the starting quarterback job. He did, in fact, regain his job and became the National Football League's No. 1 passer---a position he secured with three touchdown passes in the final regular season game the day after her funeral.

Family, faith, friends, and football have filled Staubach's life one he views with unusual perspective. Between his Heisman Trophy, all-America days at the Naval Academy and his Super Bowl championship year with Dallas, he saw the other side of the world and the other side of life in Vietnam.

He shares with you a story in which he tells a lot about football and its headliners but even more about living, and giving.

Roger's friend, Skip Orr, sums it up aptly when he says, "What always has truck me about Roger is how he can put everything in perspective---the good, the bad, and the sad. He has been thrust into the national spotlight but he still has his sense of values and priorities. He's not only a great football player but a fantastic man as well."