One man's odyssey into the brutal hive of the national football leagueThis is not a celebrity tell-all of professional sports. Slow Getting Up is a survivor's real-time account ofplaying six seasons (twice as long as the average NFL career) for the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos.As an unsigned free agent who rose through the practice squad to the starting lineup, Nate Jackson is the talented embodiment of the everyday freak athlete in professional football, one of thousands whose names go unmentioned in the daily press. Through his story recounted herefrom scouting combines to preseason cuts to byzantine film studies toglorious touchdown catcheseven knowledgeable football fans will glean a new,starkly humanizedunderstanding of the daily rigors and unceasing violence of quotidian life in the NFL. Fast-paced, lyrical, and hilariously unvarnished, Slow Getting Up is an unforgettable look at the real lives of America's best twenty-year-old athletes putting their bodies and minds through hell.