Headslap
Subtitle: The Life and Times of Deacon Jones
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: August 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9781573920827
Subjects: American football; Biography: general; Sports - General; Football - Professional; Football; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Sports - Football; Biography/Autobiography; People of Color; Football players; United States; Biography; Jones, Deacon
Description: This is the story of Deacon Jones' rise to the top of the heap in the National Football League. "Headslap" refers to the lightning move popularized by Jones, when a player could rattle the helmet of a blocker by belting him along side the head. And Deacon - The "Secretary of Defense"--Did this better than anyone. So devastating was his trademark move that the league eventually outlawed it. More than a simple sports story, Headslap brings to full view the NFL during the.

1960s and 1970s - a time of incredible social upheaval and change in the United States. Deacon's story reveals the difficulties that all black players confronted trying to break into the NFL.