Slow Getting Up
A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile
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4.3 • 306 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
Loved this book!
I'm new to football. The advent of FanDuel and a desire understand what my husband spent his weekends watching drew me to the sport and prompted me to read this book. I love Nate Jackson's writing style and his self deprecating manner. Despite my ignorance of football terminology I thoroughly enjoyed It. I was slow putting it down.
slow. Getting up
Never played football but love watching the ballet of men trying to maul each other. Nate has written a book about life with football and made the game. Much more appealing.
Awesome
Simply an awesome story. Profound, heartfelt, revealing.