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Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile
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Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile Paperback - 2014

by Nate Jackson


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Nate Jackson's Slow Getting Up is an unvarnished and uncensored memoir of everyday life in the most popular sports league in America--and the most damaging to its players--the National Football League.

After playing college ball at a tiny Division III school, Jackson, a receiver, signed as a free agent with the San Francisco 49ers, before moving to the Denver Broncos. For six seasons in the NFL as a Bronco, he alternated between the practice squad and the active roster, eventually winning a starting spot--a short, tenuous career emblematic of the average pro player.

Drawing from his own experience, Jackson tells the little known story of the hundreds of everyday, "expendable" players whose lives are far different from their superstar colleagues.

From scouting combines to training camps, off-season parties to game-day routines, debilitating physical injuries--including degenerative brain conditions--to poor pensions and financial distress, he offers a funny, and shocking look at life in the NFL, and the young men who risk their health and even their lives to play the game.

From the rear cover

One man's odyssey into the brutal hive of the National Football League

As an unsigned free agent who rose through the practice squad to the starting lineup of the Denver Broncos, Nate Jackson took the path of thousands of unknowns before him to carve out a professional football career twice as long as the average player. Through his story recounted here--from scouting combines to preseason cuts to byzantine film studies to glorious touchdown catches--even knowledgeable football fans will glean a new, starkly humanized understanding of the NFL's workweek. Fast-paced, lyrical, dirty, and hilariously unvarnished, Slow Getting Up is an unforgettable look at the real lives of America's best athletes putting their bodies and minds through hell.

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  • Title Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile
  • Author Nate Jackson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, NYC
  • Date 2014-09-02
  • ISBN 9780062108036 / 0062108034
  • Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.22 x 5.31 x 0.69 in (20.88 x 13.49 x 1.75 cm)
  • Reading level 790
  • Library of Congress subjects Football players - United States, Jackson, Nate
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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