Jason Cole has covered or written about pro football since 1992 and has been a selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame since 2013. He has worked for publications such as Bleacher Report, Yahoo! Sports, The Miami Herald, and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Cole's five-year investigation of Reggie Bush and the University of Southern California resulted in Bush becoming the only player to ever relinquish his Heisman Trophy and USC losing its 2004 national championship.
Cole has co-authored six books, including Giant with Plaxico Burress, Heart for the Game with Simon Keith, and Ocho Cinco with Chad Johnson. Prior to covering the NFL, Cole covered the NBA, Major League Baseball, and high school sports in the San Francisco Bay Area. Among his breaking news stories was uncovering famed impostor James Hogue at both Princeton University and Palo Alto High School. Cole teaches sports writing at the University of Florida and is the father of two Eagle Scouts. He is a graduate of Stanford University, which he attended at the same time as Elway.
"An in-depth, entertaining biography of one of football's greatest
quarterbacks, John Elway.... Cole smoothly takes readers from
on-field action to back-office decision-making.... This is a
must-read for Elway and Broncos fans."--Publishers Weekly
"Engrossing read, very well-researched."--Ramon Maclin,
Medium.com
"For a man that has completely dominated headlines in Colorado,
this is the most complete book about the legend. Jason Cole goes
deep with Elway: A Relentless Life, and he delivers on the man who
delivered so much for Colorado."--Adam Schefter, author of The Man
I Never Met
"For a man who possesses more natural talent than any quarterback
in history, John Elway never had it particularly easy on his path
to the top of his profession, nor did he seek any shortcuts. Fueled
by a relentlessly competitive nature and a gritty, understated
toughness, Elway fought through a series of institutional and
interpersonal obstacles to reach his goals, and he wouldn't have
wanted it any other way. Jason Cole was fortunate enough to witness
Elway's excellence at an early age, and he kept filling up
notebooks while chronicling the quarterback's peaks and valleys for
the next several decades. Like his subject, Cole is unafraid to go
all-in and unbending in his pursuit of success. The result is a
comprehensive, uncompromising and thoroughly compelling breakdown
of a living legend who continues to chase greatness, every single
day."--Mike Silver, NFL Network
"John Elway is one of the most well-documented figures in the 37
years I've covered football, and it's a tribute to Jason Cole's
rich reporting that this book is filled with stuff I never knew.
Elway the pitcher versus Strawberry the slugger in the Los Angeles
high school baseball championship ... Living in a Belushi-like
Animal House at Stanford ... How barely remembered Denver owner
Edgar Kaiser made the Elway trade ... Riveting details of Elway's
spats with Dan Reeves ... And as Broncos GM years later, wisely
slow-playing his pursuit of Peyton Manning. This, then, is a
particularly valuable story of the life and times of a great
player, in and out of football. Jason Cole delivers the goods the
way Elway delivered the ball."
--Peter King, NBC Sports
"John Elway is one of America's most famous and celebrated sports
figures, and yet he's always been something of a mystery. Jason
Cole peals back the layers, like only someone who has known Elway
since their Stanford days can. Wanna know where the power in his
right arm came from? How he survived the Dan Reeves years and
excelled under Mike Shanahan? Why he still grinds every day running
the Denver Broncos, even with multiple Super Bowl rings and a
secure legacy in place? This riveting primer on the requirements of
greatness answers them all."--Seth Wickersham, ESPN
"Learned so much about No. 7 in Elway, as Jason Cole connected many
dots with his well-researched, deep dive into the remarkable career
and life of an icon. It is an enjoyable read, too, well-written
with an abundance of details and context. Not only is this a must
for any given John Elway fan, but it is a treasure that needed to
be documented for the sake of football history."--Jarrett Bell, NFL
Columnist, USA Today Sports
"The author convincingly shows that no other quarterback has
combined [Elway's] drive, intelligence, willpower, and athleticism,
and none has been so relentless in seeking self-improvement and
gridiron glory....Cole is a fluent interpreter of the game of
football and its arcana, and he has a considered appreciation for
what it is that makes a great leader....Fans of the Broncos-and
football in general-will enjoy this portrait of one of the game's
greatest players."--Kirkus Reviews
"The exhaustive and excellent tome by Jason Cole about the life and
times of 60-year-old John Elway."--NBC Sports
"The reporting and background in this book are
outstanding."--Sports Illustrated
"In-depth and detailed."--Peter Prisco, CBS Sports
"John Elway's movie star looks and Hall of Fame talent present a
shield that only Jason Cole is able to penetrate."--The Chicago
Tribune
"This well-sourced biography of former Cardinal and Denver Broncos
great John Elway, '83, is a playbook for leaders in the
making."--Stanford Magazine
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