No excuses
Subtitle: growing up deaf and achieving my Super Bowl dreams
By: Derrick Coleman, Jr., with Marcus Brotherton
Contributors: Brotherton, Marcus, author
Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781476796581
Subjects: Football players; Biography; African American football players; Deaf athletes
Description: The first deaf athlete to play offense in the NFL--and win a Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks--relates his story of hard work and determination on his challenging journey to become a professional football player.
Table of contents: title: 1: Field Dreams; title: 2: My Start in Life; title: 3: How It All Began to Go Wrong; title: 4: "Four Ears"; title: 5: Football, Basketball, or a Life of Crime?; title: 6: From the Back to the Front of the Line; title: 7: I Start Making My Mark; title: 8: Hard Hits as a Bruin; title: 9: Graduation Day; title: 10: Big Hope/Big Disappointment; title: 11: How I Learned to Pack a Smaller Suitcase; title: 12: Icing My Ankle with Everything i Got; title: 13: The Super Session; title: 14: Going Viral in the Playoffs; title: 15: The Super Bowl; title: 16: My Foot, the Future, and You; title: Afterword; title: Acknowledgments; title: About the Author.