Inside the helmet
Subtitle: life as a Sunday afternoon warrior
By: Michael Strahan with Jay Glazer
Contributors: Glazer, Jay
Publisher: Gotham Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781592403974
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Football players; New York Giants (Football team); Biography
Description: One of the NFL's most talented players, Strahan is also one of its most vocal personalities. His first book is a no-holds-barred account of life in the league, recounting exhilarating victories in vivid detail, but not without the hair-raising details of the ruthless grit required for every win. He reveals the names of the dirtiest players, what it feels and sounds like to crush another player, which potent painkillers players take in order to return to the battlefield, the wild parties, the pressure to live up to a multimillion-dollar salary, the intense and sometimes volatile relationship between player and coach, and the violent blowups that occur when that pressure gets too intense.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Preparing for battle; title: Practical jokes: the brilliance of our immaturity; title: Footbrawling; title: The coach and player relationship; title: The head coach and I hug it out; title: Behind the locker room doors; title: Donovan, please answer your damn phone!; title: Communicating on the field; title: Snap goes my foot : welcome to club medical; title: The lousy life of a rookie; title: Violence under the pile and other things that won't get you arrested; title: Chess on the gridiron; title: The art of Sunday trash-talking; title: Meetings, monotony, playbooks and how to sleep through it all; title: No more fearing head coaches; title: Needles, painkillers, anti-inflammatories and other ways to hide the pain; title: A cautionary tale : women, money, and scams; title: Living a private life in the public eye; title: Steroids and other cheaters' delights; title: Super Bowl shuffle; title: Super and not so super Saturday and Sunday.