"A tremendously authentic, inside-the-locker-room view is unveiled with Jackson's myriad stories, clever wit, skillful prose and perfect dose of sophomoric humor." - San Jose Mercury News "Fantastic." - Jonathan Mahler, Bloomberg "The best football memoir ever." - Rolling Stone "Excellent." - New Republic "Excellent.busts through pro football's prevailing mythology.Nate Jackson gives us the game warts and all, but never in a drag-ass, woe-is-me way. A really fine book.

Man can write." - Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk "Simply the best book by a former player about life in the NFL that you will read. Maybe the best book period about life in the NFL that you will read." - Stefan Fatsis, author of A Few Seconds of Panic: A Sportswriter Plays in the NFL " Slow Getting Up tells the whole truth about the NFL. Painfully honest and remarkably funny, it's far and away the best 'insider' book about pro sports since Jim Bouton's Ball Four ." - Scott Raab, author of The Whore of Akron "That screaming you hear coming across the sky? It's a wobbly spiral. Slow Getting Up is everything you want football memoirs to be but never are: hilarious, dirty, warm, human, honest, weird." - Dwight Garner, New York Times "The book the world has been waiting for.

"Ball Four" for the football world is here at last." - Tom Junod, via Twitter "It's all here--the life-long love of a brutal game, the inevitable injuries, the drugs, more injuries, more drugs, the women, still more injuries--and it's all told by the kind of jock you never knew in high school: defiant, honest, smart, painfully self-aware. Jackson's also funny as hell, page-after-page funny." - Esquire.