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"An insightful and . . . amusing look at the interior workings of pro football" (The NY Times) from the bestselling writer of Word Freak
In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis invaded the insular world of competitive Scrabble players, ultimately reaching an expert-level position. Now, in his new reserve, he infiltrates a strikingly different subculture-pro football. After greater than a year of planning, Fatsis molded his fortyish body into one that could stand up-barely-to the rigors of NFL training. As well as for 90 days he became a placekicker for the Denver Broncos. Making the almost all of unprecedented usage of an NFL team and its own players, and drawing on his own personal experience, Fatsis with wry candor and hard-won empathy unveils the mind of the modern pro athlete and the workings of any storied activities franchise as no article writer has before.
