sentences:  Joe Pendleton, a backup quarterback for the American football team Los Angeles Rams, is looking forward to leading his team to the Super Bowl.While riding his bicycle through the older west side of tunnel one on Kanan-Dume Road in Malibu, California, an over-anxious guardian angel (known only as The Escort) on his first assignment sees Joe heading into the tunnel, and a large truck heading into the other end of the tunnel towards Joe and his bicycle.The Escort plucks Joe out of his body early in the mistaken belief that Joe was about to be killed.