 He is the author of books about professional football, including "The Crunch" and the 1984 novel "On Any Given Sunday".One of four children of a U.S. Air Force officer, Toomay was born in California and lived various locations, including Hawaii, upstate New York, and northern Virginia.He attended Thomas Edison High School in Alexandria, Virginia, where he was an all-state player in football, basketball, and baseball, graduating in 1966.