Upside down football : an inside look at long snapping in the NFL / Ted Kluck.

Author
Kluck, Ted [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Description
xvi, 172 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    Author Ted Kluck was a long snapper in the semi-pros and a professional indoor league, so he knows the often thankless job of snapping. To explore the art of long snapping for this book, Kluck enlists NFL snapping super-agent Kevin Gold and former longtime NFL snapper Justin Snow to help him on his journey to perfect his own craft. Along the way he encounters a Cinderella Story (Brian Kinchen), the search for a goat (Trey Junkin), learns from an elite NFL special teams coach (Gary Zauner) and tracks some young prospects as they seek a high-pressure job in the NFL's smallest and most anonymous fraternity. Upside Down Football features in-depth interviews with players, coaches, agents, and scouts, introducing the reader to some of the men who have snapped successfully?and unsuccessfully?at the game's highest level and providing insight into what major college and NFL games are like for these elite athletes. --Publisher.
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    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • Introduction : Fully grown up (today)
    • Walking on broken glass
    • Kevin Gold : agent to the anonymous
    • Rob Davis : a king's ransom to play a kid's game
    • The cautionary tale : Trey Junkin and the danger of living one dream too many
    • The Rubio zone
    • Bryan Pittman : the security man
    • Trever Kruzel : the minicamp body
    • Nolan Owen : the would-be Rubio
    • Perfect laces : NFL coach Gary Zauner
    • The private lesson : Nolan Owen part 2
    • The Rubio camp
    • Transition : Tennessee, Glenn Pakulak, and Jon Akemon
    • The soldier : Nate Boyer
    • Silverdome and the onward march of time
    • Where'd everyone go? : the photographer : Tyler Schmitt
    • Mobile and the nature of embarrassment
    • Bloomington, Illinois : satisfaction versus euphoria
    • Epilogue : Major league.
    ISBN
    • 9781442257115 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    • 1442257113 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2016022202
    OCLC
    951506741
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