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

Tam had bonded with the flight attendants in first class, who had recognized them—as had many they came into eye contact with—but were playing it cool. His people had put out a carefully worded press release explaining that as Quinn had been such a big supporter of his golf tournament, Tam was returning the favor by going on a “fact-finding” mission with him to Indonesia to see how the orphanage was progressing. “Fact-finding”: Wasn’t that what Congress called all those golf junkets to Puerto Rico? Quinn wondered whom they were kidding. But Tam was “F***ing Tam Tarquin,” and if he said he was going on a fact-finding mission, then damn, he was going on a fact-finding mission. And if he, oops, let slip that it was just his luck that his sister Bev was smitten with his Super Bowl rival, well, who was anyone to question him?


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