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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