{"product_id":"9780062108036","title":"Slow Getting Up : A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eSlow Getting Up\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Nate Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNate Jackson’s \u003cem\u003eSlow Getting Up\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“That screaming you hear coming across the sky? It’s a wobbly spiral…\u003ci\u003eSlow Getting Up \u003c\/i\u003e is everything you want football memoirs to be but never are: hilarious, dirty, warm, human, honest, weird.”\u003cbr\u003e“Excellent...busts through pro football’s prevailing mythology...Nate Jackson gives us the game warts and all, but never in a drag-ass, woe-is-me way. A really fine book. Man can write.”\u003cbr\u003e“A tremendously authentic, inside-the-locker-room view is unveiled with Jackson’s myriad stories, clever wit, skillful prose and perfect dose of sophomoric humor.”\u003cbr\u003e“Simply the best book by a former player about life in the NFL that you will read. Maybe the best book period about life in the NFL that you will read.”\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSlow Getting Up\u003c\/i\u003e tells the whole truth about the NFL. Painfully honest and remarkably funny, it’s far and away the best ‘insider’ book about pro sports since Jim Bouton’s \u003ci\u003eBall Four\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e“The book the world has been waiting for. “Ball Four” for the football world is here at last.”\u003cbr\u003e“Fantastic.”\u003cbr\u003e“The best football memoir ever.”\u003cbr\u003e“Excellent.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780062108036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41071284027598,"sku":"9780062108036","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780062108036.jpg?v=1648610799","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780062108036","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}