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.
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