After The Cheering Stops

Author : Cyndy Feasel
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0718088336
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Cheering Stops written by Cyndy Feasel and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former NFL wife Cyndy Feasel tells the tragic story of her family’s journey into chaos and darkness resulting from the damage her husband suffered due to football-related concussions and head trauma—and the faith that saved her. “If I’d only known what I loved the most would end up killing me and taking away everything I loved, I would have never done it.” – Grant Feasel Grant Feasel spent ten years in the NFL, playing 117 games as a center and a long snapper mostly for the Seattle Seahawks. The skull-battering, jaw-shaking collisions he absorbed during those years ultimately destroyed his marriage and fractured his family. Grant died on July 15, 2012, at the age of 52, the victim of alcohol abuse and a degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Cyndy Feasel watched their life together become a living hell as alcohol became Grant’s medication for a disease rooted in the scores of concussions he suffered on the football field. Helmet-to-helmet collisions opened the door to CTE and transformed him from a sunny, strong, and loving man into a dark shadow of his former self. In this raw and emotional memoir that takes a closer look at the destruction wrought by a game millions love, Cyndy describes in painful and excruciating detail what can happen to an NFL player and his family when the stadium empties and the lights go down. A powerful tale of warning for football moms and NFL wives everywhere, After the Cheering Stops is also a story of the hard-won hope found in God’s presence when everything else falls apart.

Author : Gay Culverhouse
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538145839
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Cheering Stops written by Gay Culverhouse and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartfelt account of the difficulties football players face after they leave the NFL. The NFL is the nation’s most popular sport, but the athletes who make the league rich suffer greatly once they step off the field. In When the Cheering Stops: Life after the NFL, players open up about the adversities they face after retirement. Long after the lights have dimmed on their playing days, NFL players face emotional distress, physical injuries, and cognitive decline, often suffering on their own. Personal interviews with former players reveal that many struggle with finances, finding a second career, addiction, depression, and violence. While success stories are also shared, the unfortunate truth is that there are far more players left hurt and broken after retirement. Written by former Tampa Bay Buccaneers president and founder of the Retired Player Assistance program Gay Culverhouse, this book provides a unique inside perspective on the NFL and the long-term physical and emotional toll playing in the league takes on the players who make it great.

Author : William Bendetson
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
ISBN 13 : 9781600783821
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Cheering Stops written by William Bendetson and published by Triumph Books (IL). This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailing a memorable season for the beloved New York Giants, this account covers the 1990 Super Bowl champions. A roster filled with emerging stars and wily veterans, coached by future legends Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick, stormed through the regular season, conquered two elite franchises in the postseason, and then won the NFL title in one of the most unforgettable championship games in football history--all brought back to life in this book.

Author : Gene Smith
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504039742
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Cheering Stopped written by Gene Smith and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poignant true story of an American president struck by tragedy at the height of his glory. This New York Times bestseller vividly chronicles the stunning decline in Woodrow Wilson’s fortunes after World War I and draws back the curtain on one of the strangest episodes in the history of the American presidency. Author Gene Smith brilliantly captures the drama and excitement of Wilson’s efforts at the Paris Peace Conference to forge a lasting concord between enemies, and his remarkable coast-to-coast tour to sway national opinion in favor of the League of Nations. During this grueling jaunt across 8,000 miles in less than a month, Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke that left him an invalid and a recluse, shrouding his final years in office in shadow and mystery. In graceful and dramatic prose, Smith portrays a White House mired in secrets, with a commander in chief kept behind closed doors, unseen by anyone except his doctor and his devoted second wife, Edith Galt Wilson, a woman of strong will with less than an elementary school education who, for all intents and purposes, led the government of the most powerful nation in the world for two years. When the Cheering Stopped is a gripping true story of duty, courage, and deceit, and an unforgettable portrait of a visionary leader whose valiant struggle and tragic fall changed the course of world history.

Author : Lee Heiman
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780025507654
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Cheering Stops written by Lee Heiman and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-one ex-major league baseball players tell about their game and their lives.

Author : Bill Parcells
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0385346379
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parcells written by Bill Parcells and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Parcells may be the most iconic football coach of our time. During his decades-long tenure as an NFL coach, he turned failing franchises into contenders. He led the ailing New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories, turned the New England Patriots into an NFL powerhouse, reinvigorated the New York Jets, brought the Dallas Cowboys back to life, and was most recently enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Taking readers behind the scenes with one of the most influential and fascinating coaches the NFL has ever known, PARCELLS will take a look back at this coach’s long, storied and influential career, offer a nuanced portrayal of the complex man behind the coach, and examine the inner workings of the NFL.

Author : Brian Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135863601
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When to Stop the Cheering? written by Brian Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-29 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Finalist for the 2007 Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).* *Winner of the 2007 Robert Peterson Book Award of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball* When to Stop the Cheering? documents the close and often conflicted relationship between the black press and black baseball beginning with the first Negro professional league of substance, the Negro National League, which started in 1920, and finishing with the dissolution of the Negro American League in 1957. When to Stop the Cheering? examines the multidimensional relationship the black newspapers had with baseball, including their treatment of and relationships with baseball officials, team owners, players and fans. Over time, these relationships changed, resulting in shifts in coverage that could be described as moving from brotherhood to paternalism, then from paternalism to nostalgic tribute and even regret.

Author : Terra Elan McVoy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442402164
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Kiss written by Terra Elan McVoy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In alternating chapters, two high school senior girls in Atlanta reveal their thoughts and frustrations as they go through their final semester of high school.

Author : Kent Babb
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476778973
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not a Game written by Kent Babb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allen Iverson transcended race, celebrity, and pop culture and emerged from a troubled past to become one of the most successful and highly compensated athletes in the world. Babb examines what drove his successes and failures, getting behind the familiar, sanitized, and heroic version of Iverson-- the hard-charging, hard-partying athlete who played every game as if it were his last. He brings to life a private, loyal, and often generous Allen Iverson who rarely made the headlines, revealing the back story behind some of Iverson's most memorable moments, and delves deep to discover where Iverson's demons lurked. Over time, Iverson himself came to believe his own hype: that he lived in a world where celebrity is eternal and riches are everlasting.

Author : Nate Jackson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062383213
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slow Getting Up written by Nate Jackson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's odyssey into the brutal hive of the National Football League As an unsigned free agent who rose through the practice squad to the starting lineup of the Denver Broncos, Nate Jackson took the path of thousands of unknowns before him to carve out a professional football career twice as long as the average player. Through his story recounted here—from scouting combines to preseason cuts to byzantine film studies to glorious touchdown catches—even knowledgeable football fans will glean a new, starkly humanized understanding of the NFL's workweek. Fast-paced, lyrical, dirty, and hilariously unvarnished, Slow Getting Up is an unforgettable look at the real lives of America's best athletes putting their bodies and minds through hell.