Fantasy man : a former NFL player's descent into the brutality of fantasy football

Fantasy man A former NFL player's descent into the brutality of fantasy football

Nate Jackson

Book - 2016

Six years have passed since the former 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 head first into other psychos for money. But Nate hasn't quite left the game. Bed-ridden by a recent surgery to remove bone fragments in his ankle, he's trying to defend his title in one of the millions of leagues captivating America through modern fantasy football, the interactive human poker game started 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. And this time it isn't a 300-pound wall of flesh rushing to crunch his spine. It's w...orse. Exploring the fantasy--and the reality--of professional football after you've left the field, Fantasy Man is as funny, self-deprecating, and shockingly honest as Slow Getting Up.

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Subjects
Jackson, Nate.
Football players > Biography.
Fantasy football (Game)
Published
New York, NY : Harper [2016]
Language
English
Main Author
Nate Jackson (author)
Other Authors
Tom Jackson (illustrator)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780062470072
  • Prologue: The Draft
  • Week 1. Poppy Blankets
  • Week 2. Exhibition
  • Week 3. Name Change
  • Week 4. Brand X
  • Week 5. The Mortal Man
  • Week 6. Homecoming
  • Week 7. Sunday, Boring Sunday
  • Week 8. Side Effects
  • Week 9. Pockets of Luck
  • Week 10. Blank Screen
  • Week 11. Killing Peyton
  • Week 12. The Wishbone
  • Week 13. Just Dessert
  • Week 14. Born Again
  • Playoffs: Numberless Legends
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Booklist Review

A book about a group of yahoo friends who play fantasy football seems as far removed from a real-life NFL game as a mortgage-backed security is from an actual mortgage. While the author is only too happy to join the fantasy silliness and his QB for his league's 2015-16 season, Peyton Manning, makes things interesting Jackson's five years as an NFL wide receiver for the Denver Broncos, the subject of his acclaimed Slow Getting Up (2013), keep this account in the real world. And so balancing the fizz of a fantasy football season, Jackson ponders the delicate psychology of good coaching, the game's ceaseless and speeded-up violence, whether he would want to know if he has football-induced degenerative brain disease (he wouldn't), and how the NFL has demonized marijuana, singling out now-retired gifted running back and pot-smoker Ricky Williams, instead of a conversation about how one of the earth's best athletes maintains his physical and mental excellence with plant matter. Thoughtful, almost in spite of itself.--Moores, Alan Copyright 2016 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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