Steve Young celebrates in the end zone after scoring the game-winning touchdown to beat Missouri in the 1983 Holiday Bowl.
Steve Young's recently published autobiography, "QB: My Life Behind the Spiral," Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30), started out as a personal family history project.
The idea came one day when Young's 10-year-old son recounted a story he'd heard at school involving his father and former San Francisco great Joe Montana. But the story wasn't true, Young said, and he realized there was a "ton" that his four children didn't know about him.
That small episode sparked a long process that eventually led Young to connect with author Jeff Benedict, who then assisted the former Brigham Young University and NFL quarterback in writing and publishing a transparent and insightful 389-page narrative of his life.