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Slow Getting Up

A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile

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Slow Getting Up

By: Nate Jackson
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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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Loved this audio book! I’ve read many books glamourising the NFL and when viewed from the top of the NFL mountain life is good. But this is about the real NFL, from someone who loved the game and was just trying to stay on a team! The injuries are hard to hear about at times, it’s a brutal sport, but the story awesome. Also the narration is one of the best. Nate Jackson is an antidote to the myth football players are not bright and articulate. Great narration!

The real NFL

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A fantastic insight into the real story of being an NFL player with none of the usual NFL gloss and hyperbole.

Jackson gives a brutally honest look into his career and his is a story that is probably shared by many hundreds of players who didn’t make it to the top of the NFL mountain as household names.

Great insight with none of the NFL shine...

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Loved every second of this, Nate’s voice had me hooked in from the start. The most honest sports autobiography I’ve listened to in quite some time. I laughed along and empathised with Nate’s stories and experiences.
I admire his honesty and his descriptive writing style is beautiful and descriptive. He paints a picture with his words.

Really didn’t not want this book to end.
10/10

Amazing and truly captivating

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Worth a listen for most nfl fans as a true account of struggle at Pro level. Not a PC read either all left bare

Worth a listen for most nfl fans

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this is a great book. whether you're a sports fan or not, you'll enjoy it. brilliantly narrated by the author too.

brilliant

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I wasn't expecting that much from this as it was on a deal but its inspiring, a sort of realistic hero's journey and the pulls the curtain on dark side of professional sports

Hidden Gem

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A real insight into life in the nfl and the ongoing struggle of players even when they make it. If you want a fairy tail Disney story don’t read. If you want to hear about true toughness and heart then give this a go

Great insight

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Nates story has shown me another side to a sport that from the uk perspective we get no idea ho hard the grind is we just see the end product . Would highly recommend.

Enjoyable and believable

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Really enjoyed this! Story and insights were great and it's really well read. Nate sounds like David Goggins, but without all the f bombs.

Great story!

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We all know the superstars of the NFL. The multimillion dollar deals, the Pro Bowls, the Super Bowls. This book opens the door on the workaday jocks fighting every day to make the team.

Interlaced with Nate Jackson's wit are harrowing stories about battling injury, the impact on relationships being a pro athlete has, and the lengths (or depths) some players will go to to keep their dream alive.

A moving story, wonderfully read by the author.

Slow Getting Up Builds Up a Real Head of Steam

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