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A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile
Harper
September 2013
On Sale: September 17, 2013
260 pages
ISBN: 0062108026
EAN: 9780062108029
Kindle: B00BATG1AS
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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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