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The New York Times best-selling author of Slow Getting Up chronicles his descent in to the madness of early on retirement and illusion football. In Slow Getting Up - hailed by Rolling Natural stone as "the best sports memoir of all time" - Nate Jackson told his account facedown on the field. Now, in Dream Man, he's toned on his back again. Six years have exceeded since the previous Denver Broncos tight end wore a helmet, and every day he drifts further from the NFL guy, the sanctioned-violence guy, the psychopath who ran headfirst into other psychos for the money. But Nate hasn't quite left the game. Bedridden by a recent surgery to eliminate bone tissue in his ankle joint, he's trying to defend his title in another of the an incredible number of leagues fascinating America through modern illusion sports, the interactive individuals poker game started out by rotisserie leagues, boosted by ESPN and Yahoo!, and now elevated to that rarefied world of vaguely legal Internet gambling by FanDuel and DraftKings.com. Which time it isn't a 300-pound wall membrane of flesh hurrying to crunch his back. It's worse. Exploring the illusion - and the truth - of professional sports after you've left the field, Dream Man is as funny, self-deprecating, and shockingly honest as Sluggish Getting Up.
