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Under pressure : how playing football almost cost me my life and why I'd do it all again / Ray Lucas with David Seigerman

Author
Lucas, Ray, 1972-
Published
Chicago, Illinois : Triumph Books, 2014.
Copyright Date
©2014
Physical Description
1 online resource : color illustrations
Additional Creators
Seigerman, David
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Contents
Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword by Bill Parcells; Chapter 1: Get Off the Bus; Chapter 2: Under the Annie Bridge; Chapter 3: Maybe; Chapter 4: "I Just Don't Think You're Good Enough"; Chapter 5: Squatting Seven Plates; Chapter 6: A Box of Depends and a Note; Chapter 7: Fantasyland; Chapter 8: Shot; Chapter 9: Plastic Garbage Bag; Chapter 10: Wiggling My Toes; Chapter 11: Spilled Chili; Chapter 12: The Jelly Donut; Chapter 13: Surrender; Chapter 14: Clarity; Chapter 15: We Are Not Alone; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Photo Gallery.
Summary
In Under Pressure, Ray Lucas provides fans with a timely, uncensored look at pro football's play-at-all-costs culture. Overcoming questions about his size and skills as a quarterback, Lucas persevered and went on to play seven seasons in the NFL. His professional football career, however, came to a sudden end at age 30, when a neck injury caused him to collapse on the sideline during training camp. Instructed by NFL doctors that surgery wasn't an option, Lucas turned to painkillers for relief, but as his tolerance for medication escalated and his NFL insurance coverage expired, he began to pla.
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9781623689162 (electronic bk.)
1623689163 (electronic bk.)
9781623689179
1623689171
9781600789601
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