{"product_id":"books-slow-getting-up-by-nate-jackson","title":"Slow Getting Up","description":"\u003cp\u003eNate 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.\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","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53672338522385,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780062108036.jpg?v=1781519228","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-slow-getting-up-by-nate-jackson","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}