NFL Confidential

At the beginning of the 2014 season, I started keeping a detailed journal about my life as an NFL player. . . . Now, if I wanted to be safe, I'd get everything approved by the NFL, and you'd get a completely whitewashed, totally inaccurate, and extremely dull story about life in pro football. To hell with safe. I'm gonna be honest. NFL Confidential recounts a year in the life of the National Football League. It is a truly unaffiliated look at the business, guts, and glory of the game from the perspective of a dispensable underdog: not a marquee star, but a regular guy, a third stringer on the roster gutting it out through training camp to the end of the season, wondering every minute if he's going to get playing time--or get cut. Johnny Anonymous introduces the diverse cast of players--the true believers, the hero types, the brown-nosers, the f!#k-ups, the a**holes, the complainers, the fighters--the egotistical coaches who torture them, and the fans who will invade their privacy and personal space just to get a piece of their beloved pastime. The hellish injuries, nagging coaches, pompous general managers, overpaid diva athletes, and the physical and mental toll the game takes--Johnny holds nothing back in this whip-smart commentary that only an insider can bring. Part truth-telling personal narrative, part darkly funny exposé, NFL Confidential offers the faithful a look into a world they'd give anything to see--a wild ride through the strange, quirky, and sometimes disturbing realities of America's favorite game.