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A Few Seconds of Panic: A Sportswriter Plays in the NFL

by Stefan Fatsis

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Inside an NFL Training Camp, from the Kicker’s Spot

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    Praised by The New York Times

    The New York Times praises the book as an insightful and amusing look at professional football.

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Inside an NFL Training Camp, from the Kicker’s Spot

Stefan Fatsis combines reporting with participation in this account of spending three months as a placekicker for the Denver Broncos. After more than a year of physical preparation, the sportswriter enters an NFL environment with unusual access to players and team operations. The book uses that position to examine the demands placed on professional athletes, from the physical rigors of training to the pressures surrounding a specialized role on the field. Alongside the Broncos’ day-to-day football world, Fatsis’s own attempt to meet its standards provides a concrete route into the larger machinery of a professional franchise.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Football fans interested in NFL training-camp and team life
  • Sports readers who enjoy participatory journalism
  • Readers curious about the placekicker’s role and professional-athlete pressures

Themes

Professional footballTraining and physical preparationSports journalismTeam culturePerformance pressure

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Book overview

"An insightful and . . . amusing look at the inner workings of pro football" (The New York Times) from the bestselling author of Word Freak

In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis invaded the insular world of competitive Scrabble players, ultimately achieving an expert-level ranking. Now, in his new book, he infiltrates a strikingly different subculture-pro football. After more than a year of preparation, Fatsis molded his fortyish body into one that could stand up-barely-to the rigors of NFL training. And for three months he became a placekicker for the Denver Broncos. Making the most of unprecedented access to an NFL team and its 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 a storied sports franchise as no writer has before.
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