When the playboy quarterback of the hapless New York Templars is injured in a freak sexcapade, backup QB Quinn Novak picks up the ball and takes the team to the playoffs. There he attracts the attention of two other quarterbacks who’ve been rivals since high school, Mal Ryan of the Philadelphia Quakers and Tam Tarquin of the San Francisco Miners.<br><br>Quinn begins a volatile relationship with the narcissistic Mal and a loving one with the open-hearted Tam, keeping each secret from the other. What he doesn’t know is that the two have a complex sexual history of their own.

The Penalty for Holding

“I’m going to bury that mutha,” Jeremiah was saying, pounding his right hand into his left fist, and Quinn winced, as he did not want to see Tam buried. But he couldn’t let him win, even though Tam remained his heart, his love, his own. They were combatants now. If the Temps could hold the Miners in the opening gambit, they would win. It was really as simple and as complicated as that, Quinn thought.


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