Slow Getting Up
A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile
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Narrated by:
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Nate Jackson
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Nate Jackson
About this listen
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.
©2013 Nate Jackson (P)2014 Audible, Inc.Gives you a whole new perspective on the sport!
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brilliant
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Brutally honest
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Great story!
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Would you listen to Slow Getting Up again? Why?
Yes, it is very honest and entertainingWho was your favorite character and why?
Nate, of courseWhich character – as performed by Nate Jackson – was your favourite?
Nate himself, there are times when he is living the dream of many wannabe sportsman, there are other times, real lows, no glossing overWas this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Strangely enough yesAny additional comments?
It was a book I thought I might regret buying as at first Nate doesn't seem very likeable, but as his story plays out, I found myself rooting for him, right up to the melancholy ending.Addictive story of a journeyman pro's NFL career
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