Greg Olsen Jersey HUNTINGTON BEACH – Everybody – in Green Bay Packers nation at least – knows the story of Brett Favre, a kid from Southern Mississippi whose father and coach wouldn’t let him throw the football.Jeff Pearlman of Laguna Niguel – who has published New York Times best-selling books cheap jerseys on the Los Angeles Lakers, the New York Mets and the Dallas Cowboys, as well as books on Walter Payton, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens – saw more to Favre than his rise to fame.“If you can take someone who everybody knows, but nobody knows,” Pearlman, 44, said of what drove him to spend two years reporting and writing about Favre. “He’s fascinating. The sports part is the least interesting part to me.”The resulting book, “Gunslinger,” which will be released Oct. 25, is the first Wholesale jerseys definitive biography of Favre, Pearlman said.At an Orange County Register Book Club event Wednesday night at Marlin Bar & Grill, Pearlman gave the inside scoop on how he collected details for the book on how Favre became the first quarterback in NFL history to pass for 500 touchdowns and throw for more than 70,000 yards, among other records.Pearlman collected personal stories about Favre from speaking with 573 people who interacted with him in some way.The Carolina Panthers jersey author read an excerpt from “Gunslinger” – the opening, a scene in which Favre and a bartender walked into a bar in Green Bay, Wisc., with strippers, as is customary during deer-hunting season. At the bartender’s suggestion, Favre charged $50 for every signature. At the end of that, of his own volition, Favre threw all the wads of money at the bartenders.
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