A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays In The NFL
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Drawing on rare access to an NFL team's players, coaches, and facilities, the author of the New York Times bestseller Word Freak trains to become a professional-caliber placekicker. As he sharpens his skills, he gains surprising insight into the daunting challenges—-physical, psychological, and intellectual—-that pro athletes must master. The Washington Post - Steven V. Roberts …give the guy credit. When George Plimpton attended an NFL camp in 1963 and wrote his famous account of that experience, Paper Lion, he was more observer than participant. Fatsis worked hard to become a passable place kicker, and because he shared their training camp regimen—the pain and pressure, brutality and boredom—he won the confidence of his teammates. That intimacy produces some candid insights, particularly about the marginal players, the walk-ons and spear-carriers in the NFL's "moneymaking machine," as one Bronco calls it…Fatsis might not be a real Bronco, but he's a real sportswriter, and this book tells you what brings real Broncos to tears.
Prologue: Martin Gramatica's Dad 1I'm No Plimpton 5Chippin' and Skippin' 16I Go with 9 32There's No Sorries 50I Just Lost My Punter 61Toddworld 77There It Is 93Someone Else's Game 116A Few Seconds of Panic 140Here's Your Rope 158Groundhog Day 171The Bottom of the Trickle 192If It's In, It's In 210My Dogs Adore Me 223Nice Form, Though 236The Gladiators March into Battle 248How Far Was That? 258It's Part of a Sickness 275One from Here for Everything 290This Ain't Good-bye. This Is Life 300Epilogue: No, I'm a Bronco 312Author's Note: Among Giants 334Sources: Secrets of Kicking the Football 339
