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100 1 Fatsis, Stefan.
245 12 A few seconds of panic :|ba 5-foot-8, 170-pound, 43-year-
old sportswriter plays in the NFL|h[Hoopla electronic
resource] /|cStefan Fatsis.
250 Unabridged.
264 1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2008.
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511 1 Read by Stefan Fatsis.
520 In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis infiltrated the insular world
of competitive Scrabble players, ultimately achieving
expert status (comparable to a grandmaster ranking in
chess). Now he infiltrates a strikingly different
subculture-pro football. After more than a year spent
working out with a strength coach and polishing his craft
with a gurulike kicking coach, Fatsis molded his fortyish
body into one that could stand up-barely-to the rigors of
NFL training. And over three months in 2006, he became a
Denver Bronco. He trained with the team and lived with the
players. He was given a locker and uniforms emblazoned
with the number 9. He was expected to perform all the
drills and regimens required of other kickers. He ws
unlike his teammates in some ways-most notably, his
livelihood was not on the line as theirs was. But he
became remarkably like them in many ways: he risked
crippling injury just as they did, endured the hazing that
befalls all rookies, daily gorged on 4,000 calories, and
slogged through two-a-day practices in blistering heat.
Not since George Plimpton's stint as a Detroit Lion more
than forty years ago has a writer tunneled so deeply into
the NFL.At first, the players tolerated Fatsis or treated
him like a mascot, but over time they began to think of
him as one of them. And he began to think like one of
them. Like the other Broncos-like all elite athletes-he
learned to perfect a motion through thousands of
repetitions, to play through pain, to silence the crowd's
roar, and to banish self-doubt.While Fatsis honed his mind
and drove his body past exhaustion, he communed with every
classic athletic type-the afable alpha male, the overpaid
brat, the youthful phenom, the savvy veteran-and a welter
of bracingly atypical players as well: a fullback who
invokes Aristotle, a quarterback who embraces yoga, and a
tight end who takes creative writing classes in the off-
season. Fatsis also witnessed the hidden machinery of a
top-flight football franchise, from the God-is-in-the-
details strategizing of legendary coach Mike Shanahan to
the icy calculation with which the front office makes or
breaks careers.With wry candor and hard-won empathy, A Few
Seconds of Panic unveils the mind of the modern pro
athlete and the workings of a storied sports franchise as
no book ever has before.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
600 10 Fatsis, Stefan.
610 20 National Football League.
650 0 Placekickers (Football)|zUnited States|vAnecdotes.
650 0 Sportswriters|zUnited States|vAnecdotes.
650 0 Football players|zUnited States|vAnecdotes.
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