Under pressure
Subtitle: how playing football almost cost me my life and why I'd do it all again
By: Ray Lucas with David Seigerman
Contributors: Seigerman, David, author
Publisher: Triumph Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781623689162; 9781623689179; 9781600789601
Subjects: Biography; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Football players; Football; SPORTS & RECREATION; Sports
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: 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.