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"One man's odyssey into the brutal hive of the National Football League. This is not a celebrity tell-all of professional sports. Slow Getting Up is a survivor's real-time account of playing six seasons (twice as long as the average NFL career) for the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos. As an unsigned free agent who rose through the practice squad to the starting lineup, Nate Jackson is the talented embodiment of the everyday freak athlete in professional football, one of thousands whose names go unmentioned in the daily press. Through his story recounted here-- from scouting…
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4 editions- Other · English · 2014HarperCollins Publishers · 288 pages · 9780062108036
- Other · English · 2014HarperCollins Publishers · 9780062383211
- Other · English · 2013HarperCollins Publishers · 9780062108043
- Other · English · 2013Harper · 243 pages · 9780062108029
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