Fantasy Man: A Former NFL Player’s Descent Into the Brutality of Fantasy Football Audiobook (Free)

THE BRAND NEW York Times bestselling writer of Slow WAKING UP chronicles his descent into the madness of early retirement and fantasy football.

In Gradual Getting Up-hailed by Rolling Rock as ‘the best football memoir of all time’-Nate Jackson told his story face down on the field. Now, in Fantasy Guy, he’s flat on his back again.

Six years have passed because the former Denver Broncos tight end wore a helmet, and each day he drifts further from your NFL Man, the sanctioned-violence guy, the psychopath who about Illusion Man: A Former NFL Player’s Descent In to the Brutality of Fantasy Football ran head first into other psychos for money. But Nate hasn’t quite still left the overall game. Bed-ridden by a recent surgery to remove bone tissue in his ankle joint, he’s trying to defend his title in one of the millions of leagues fascinating America through modern fantasy soccer, the interactive individual poker game began by rotisserie leagues, boosted by ESPN and Yahoo!, and today elevated to that rarefied globe of vaguely-legal Internet gaming by FanDuel and DraftKings.com.

And this period it isn’t a 300-pound wall of flesh hurrying to crunch his backbone.

It’s worse.

Exploring the fantasy-and the reality-of professional football after you’ve left the discipline, Fantasy Man is really as funny, self-deprecating, and shockingly honest as Decrease Getting Up.