In the NFL Confidential: True Confessions from the Gutter of Football (Audiobook/MP3), a present professional player takes fans on a pseudonymous journey through one of the most notorious years of football – the very long, sometimes funny, often controversial 2013-2014 season – sharing raucous, behind-the-scenes, on-the-field, and in-the-locker-room facts about life within the National Football League.
Johnny Anonymous’ life purpose was to be nothing greater or less than the Best NFL Back-Up of All Time™. For 2 years, he was content earning hundreds of thousands of dollars to stand on the sidelines doing absolutely nothing. However early in his third year, a starting lineman is injured, and he suddenly finds himself on the field.
For many players, this moment is a dream come true. However not so for our writer, one of the incredibly rare birds in football who reached the highest echelons, but who actually hates America’s favorite game. Yup, that is right. Johnny Anonymous hates football! He hates what it does to his body, his mind, his life. Luckily, not only he can see the humor in his own situation, but also in the machinations of the NFL.
Part truth-telling narrative, part whip-smart commentary that only a real insider could bring, part hilarious, NFL Confidential offers football fans a look at a world most would give anything to see, and gives non-fans a wild ride via the strange, and sometimes disturbing customs and realities of football today. Here’s a truly unaffiliated look at the nation’s greatest, most profitable pastime over the course of one of its most transformative seasons
From hard-to-stomach diets, showdowns in the weight room, shenanigans within the locker room, the looming dread of being cut from the team, the racial issues that still exist in modern-day football, the rock-star way of life that players find themselves able to afford and sometimes enjoy a little too much, the notion of being lauded in a league plagued by controversy, and the sharp contrast between the love/hate of the sport and the reality of the job, Johnny reveals a never-before-seen facet of the NFL.
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“Well, to hell with being safe. I’ll be honest.”
“An obscure offensive lineman writing under the pseudonym Johnny Anonymous leaves no scandal unturned in his damning new book, ‘NFL Confidential: True Confessions from the Gutter of Football.’ ” — Daily News
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