商品簡介
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.
作者簡介
Ted Kluck is an award-winning author and sports writer whose work has appeared in ESPN the Magazine, Sports Spectrum Magazine, and ESPN.com. He is the author of multiple books, including Facing Tyson: Fifteen Fighters, Fifteen Stories (2006), Game Time: Inside College Football (2007), Paper Tiger: One Athlete’s Journey to the Underbelly of Pro Football (2007), Robert Griffin III: Athlete, Leader, Believer (2013), and Three-Week Professionals: Inside the 1987 NFL Players’ Strike (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). Kluck played a season of professional indoor football as a long snapper and coached high school football.
