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John Vampatella

53rd Man

2023

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Chapter 4 NFL Draft Prospect S. 27-32

„… made him a potentially useful possession receiver in the NFL.Before the draft, Davis shared a …” „… receiver, and that concerned scouts. Davis would have trouble getting separation from NFL-caliber defensive …” „… 27Chapter 4An NFL Draft ProspectBy the time the Giants were on the clock for the 186th pick in the …”

Notes S. 201-214

„… Buchmasser, “Where Does Matthew Slater Rank among the NFL’s Best Ever Special Teamers? ‘It’s Got to Be at the …” „… . 2022).12. Steinberg, “5 Reasons Why 80% of Retired NFL Players Go Broke.”13. “NFL’s Finance Boot Camp …” „… ,” NFL.com, September 18, 2013, https: // www .nfl .com /news /toughest -transition -why -rookie -wide …”

Chapter 18 Fifty-Third-Man Money S. 133-138

„… launched the NFL’s Personal Finance Academy, which is designed to help young players gain skills in …” „… 133Chapter 18Fifty-Third-Man MoneyThe average NFL career lasts about 2.5 seasons. This is due to …” „… other major pro sports. Why does the nature of NFL contracts matter? It’s pretty simple, actually …”

Preface

„… make it in the NFL-the men who are essentially 53rd on rosters of 53-who toil in obscurity in the hopes …” „… the NFL’s championship game, the Super Bowl.2Currently, the NFL is about a $9 billion industry, and …” „… in the NFL / John Vampatella.Other titles: Fifty-third manDescription: Lanham, Maryland: Rowman …”

Chapter 13 The Best Athlete You’ve Ever Known S. 97-102

„… absolutely awful.”Fans say these things about actual NFL players, and it should only take a brief moment to …” „… realize how ludicrous these statements are. Geremy Davis is not considered fast for an NFL wide receiver …” „… drafted in the sixth round and is not considered fast for an NFL wide receiver, ran 18.3 miles an hour …”

Chapter 10 Opening Night S. 73-80

„… to the NFL.”The second player on the Dallas sideline that Davis felt a connection with was Tony Romo …” „… real NFL game. For Geremy Davis, it was with 4:33 left in the first quarter of the first game of the …” „… make his first NFL roster.The Cowboys coverage team got a running start and Bailey boomed the ball high …”

Chapter 19 Shaping the Fifty-Third Man S. 139-146

„… Owens entered the NFL’s Hall of Fame. During his induc-tion, he gave credit to Stewart for his success …” „… 139Chapter 19Shaping the Fifty-Third ManLife in the NFL is hard, and even for the star players …” „… against fully grown men with fully mature bodies and years of experience. NFL weight programs are among …”

Chapter 12 Active! S. 89-96

„… 89Chapter 12Active!For most players, their first NFL game experience at least takes place in a …” „… scor-ing plays—particularly touchdowns. In any NFL stadium with seventy thousand people, of course, some …” „… spend the money to attend an NFL game have some idea of what is going on. Fans show up wearing jerseys …”

Chapter 9 The Playbook S. 65-72

„… is in other facets of life. NFL teams want to disseminate knowledge to their players through on-field …” „… coaching, film work, and their playbooks. NFL playbooks contain the entire catalog of plays and concepts …” „… have to learn.NFL plays are complicated. Consider this play call in an NFL huddle as shared by former …”

Chapter 24 Done S. 181-186

„… that many big hits over the course of his NFL career. Nobody in the NFL is perfectly healthy, but …” „… league. And so, a few months shy of his thirtieth birthday, having seen his most recent shot at the NFL …” „… , in the hopes that he would put it together and another NFL team would come calling. His travel to …”

Chapter 11 First-Game Jitters S. 81-88

„… my fam-ily got to witness me live out my childhood dream and play in the NFL.”Belichick kept him on …” „… live. After making the team, he quickly had to find suitable housing. He was now drawing a real NFL …” „… paycheck and it was time to move on from the hotel. But despite making NFL rookie money—more than he’d ever …”

Chapter 7 The Patriot Way S. 49-54

„… quite belong in the NFL. He had earned his way to the Patriots by being drafted in the fifth round, but …” „… off the greatest regular season in NFL history, winning all sixteen games, by an average margin of …” „… regular season and then won three playoff games to complete a 17–0 championship season. But since the NFL …”

Chapter 23 Victories S. 173-180

„… play wide receiver.The “helmet catch” was the last pass Tyree would ever catch in the NFL.“For me, it’s …” „… . It’s amazing.”3* * *Jonas Gray was a classic fifty-third man—a journeyman in the NFL.For a player who …” „… bottom roster player had a dazzling moment that changed the course of NFL history.Tyree played his …”

Chapter 3 After Mr. Irrelevant S. 17-26

„… 17Chapter 3After Mr. IrrelevantNot all paths to the NFL look the same. Some players, like Geremy …” „… see their dream come true. So I’ll say it this way: D1 and the NFL were always a dream, but I always …” „… in Austin’s football life.“Coach Springer molded me, and I wouldn’t have gotten to the NFL if it …”

Chapter 5 Camp S. 33-40

„… life is like in the NFL.“There’s so much to learn,” Ateman says. “That’s why they do OTAs. It’s why …” „… days are long and it feels like forever before the season begins.Practice squad players are real NFL …” „… ’ practice squad, explained what it’s like: “When you think of the NFL you think of the guys in uniform …”

Chapter 17 Minnesota Miracle S. 125-132

„… and firmly in the playoffs.Over the long, grueling stretch of the NFL regular season, the Saints had …” „… been a peripheral part of the story.After his first NFL game experience in London, and after the bye …” „… could do, so he faced the real possibility of a release being the end of his short NFL career.“I’m …”

Chapter 15 Hammies S. 111-116

„… exception, of course) time to run in the next race.For NFL players, it’s different. There is a lot of …” „… pressure to get on the field and stay on the field. “You can’t make the club from the tub” is an NFL idiom …” „… out on the field is enormous. Their NFL lives depend on their availability.This means that players …”

Chapter 14 Injuries and Setbacks S. 103-110

„… magnified. And in the NFL, it’s far greater still, as the Darwinian process of selection has brought the …” „… University of Miami, tight end Kevin Everett had dreams of playing in the NFL. He had a modest career at the …” „… the Buffalo Bills selected him with the 86th overall pick in the third round of the 2005 NFL draft …”

Chapter 22 Platform S. 165-172

„… 165Chapter 22PlatformAs a general rule in the NFL—and this can be applied to the general population …” „… ever NFL start that day. With the score 3–0, Cleveland, the Saints got the ball with a little over …” „… caught that, man,’” he says. Platform 167The Saints, like every other NFL team, had a budget to go …”

Chapter 2 Like Father, Like Son S. 9-16

„… sophomore, Matthew Slater was preparing for a possible NFL future. But it was a future that Slater was not …” „… really sure was possible.Being the son of NFL Hall of Famer Jackie Slater sure had its perks. For Matthew …” „… NFL. If Jackie were a scientist, Matthew probably would have wanted to be a sci-entist too. But Jackie …”

Chapter 25 Giving Back S. 187-190

„… playing [with Arizona], I still felt that joy.”Given how short the average NFL career is, most players see …” „… life after the NFL to be excruciatingly difficult. Like most pro athletes, Mitchell had connected his …” „… football player. Virtually every NFL player was a highly successful athlete throughout almost his entire …”

Chapter 20 Serving S. 147-154

„… was the 186th pick in the 2015 draft).When Cantrell made the NFL, teams saw him as more of a tight end …” „… than wide receiver due to his impressive size and strength. His NFL career would exemplify life at the …” „… bottom of an NFL roster, as he spent time on four pro teams—the Chargers (2018–2019), the Cardinals (2020 …”

Chapter 21 Captain S. 155-164

„… 155Chapter 21CaptainLeadership can come in many forms, in or out of the NFL. Some men lead by the …” „… perfect NFL body. Certainly he looked little like his father, who was a hulk of an offensive lineman. By …” „… approached our relationship was transformative for me. You hear all these things about the NFL, and I heard …”

Chapter 6 From #bleedblue to Big Blue S. 41-48

„… people.”Such is life for a fifty-third man in the NFL—if the coaches suspect you are injury prone, or if little …” „… additional player development classes to help them navigate other aspects of life in the NFL, including …” „… raw athleticism or ‘wiggle’ to really burn NFL defensive backs or break big plays. But what he does …”

Chapter 16 Learning the Ropes S. 117-124

„… 117Chapter 16Learning the RopesScott O’Brien had spent seventeen years in the NFL. From 1991 to …” „… teams coordinator. Well-traveled, with many years of diverse NFL experience, O’Brien had demonstrated an …” „… England improved to 12–2 and looked once again like the class of the NFL. Slater had one of his best games …”

Chapter 1 A Dream Come True S. 1-8

„… as “Draft Town.” For three days, fans from every team in the league had gathered in the NFL’s first …” „… 1Chapter 1A Dream Come True“With the one-hundred-eighty-fifth pick in the 2015 NFL draft, the …” „… outdoor draft event, hoping to see their team pick the next great superstar. The NFL had made the sport a …”

Chapter 8 The Road to New Orleans S. 55-64

„… had just proved himself once and for all against a starting defensive back in the NFL.In the locker …” „… for life in the NFL, but he perhaps overestimated his level of ability to learn the NFL playbook. He …” „… take if he was to have any NFL career at all. He was, in a real sense, a different athlete heading into …”

Chapter 27 A Helping Hand S. 195-200

„… needed every single bit of his speed, it wasn’t enough in the NFL.Austin thought long and hard about his …” „… responsibility he felt to provide. But NFL COVID protocols made it difficult or impossible for an unvaccinated …” „… weeks after his first dose. That meant that his issue, as far as NFL teams were concerned, wasn’t solved …”

Chapter 26 Do Justice S. 191-194

„… his role and became one of the bet-ter special teams players on the team, and then in the NFL. During …” „… ushering that change in.”When his time in the NFL is officially up, Matthew’s mind goes back to one of his …” „… thinking about life in the NFL, you need to think about life as being you. I think it’s important for young …”

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Wayne Stewart - Remembering the Stars of the NFL Glory Years

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Wayne Stewart

Remembering the Stars of the NFL Glory Years

2017

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6 The NFL Then and Now S. 165-206

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Mark L. Ford - A History of NFL Preseason and Exhibition Games

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Mark L. Ford

A History of NFL Preseason and Exhibition Games

2014

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Chapter 15. 2000: Y2K + NFL S. 153-164

Chapter 18. 2003: Preseason Champs, NFL Champs S. 185-194

Chapter 4. 1989: Everyone Wants an NFL Team S. 29-40

Chapter 12. 1997: The NFL’s Memphis Blues S. 119-128

Chapter 19. 2004: Preseason’s Worst, NFL’s Best S. 195-204

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Chris Willis

Bronko

2022

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14 NFL CHAMPIONS! S. 89-102

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Kevin Bryant

Spies on the Sidelines

2022

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Bibliography S. 225-234

„… . http://www.packersnews.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/dougherty/2015/09/12/nfls-original-spy-vs-spy/72103086.———. “There’s No Breaking Kelly’s Code.” Packers News …” „… -nfl-playoffs-jim-john-harbaugh-only-texting-super-bowl-san-francisco-49ers-baltimore-ravens.Augustine, Bernie. “Texans Defensive End J. J. Watt Says He Picked Up on …” „… Cam Newton?” Sports Illustrated, December 19, 2016. http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/12/19/nfl-week-15 …”

Notes S. 211-224

„… , 2015, http://www.packersnews.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/dougherty/2015/09/12/nfls-original-spy-vs-spy …” „… , 2015, http://www.packersnews.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/dougherty/2015/09/12/nfls-original-spy-vs-spy …” „… , https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/draft/2020/04/21/nfl-draft-2020-hacked-security-breach-virtual-teams/5163797002.1. COLLECTION DURING …”

Part Three: The Draft and Free Agency S. 117-168

„… because these details are often the difference between success and failure in the NFL.However, the process …” „… still maturing in the 1950s, it was leaps and bounds more organized and professional than in the NFL’s …” „… be selected into the NFL’s Hall of Fame, along with Cowboys second-round pick Mel Renfro.As late as …”

Preface

„… “look at me, look at me” and more family game night in your pajamas.Because of this the NFL’s first …” „… throughout this book and expresses the NFL’s win-at-all-costs mentality perfectly. I encountered this saying …” „… themselves in the NFL.While such measures might seem drastic, anyone who has ever truly loved playing a sport …”

Part Four: A Case Study of the Cheatriots and the League That Enables Them S. 169-204

„… disgruntled with the NFL’s handling of Spygate. The league’s swift handling of the scandal left many NFL …” „… A SENATE INvESTIGATIONThe NFL’s handling of Spygate and the public’s desire for a thorough …” „… protecting the league. To further complicate the lives of the NFL’s brass, Specter called for a congressional …”

Epilogue S. 205-210

„… being utilized.EPILOGUE 207In regard to the NFL’s viability, what the battles with the AFL and AAFC …” „… , the NFL’s efforts to curtail their illicit collection activities and cheating have completely failed …” „… through spying. Referencing the 1958 NFL championship game that the Colts narrowly won over the Giants …”

Part One: Trick Plays S. 1-70

„… was the case when George Halas’s Bears and Vince Lombardi’s Packers, one of the NFL’s great rivalries …” „… half of the NFL’s teams. Such collection can provide a tremendous advantage. Sometime between 1989 and …” „… led the Chargers to a 12–4 season and had been the NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year. A torn labrum on …”

Part Two: The Core of the Playbook S. 71-116

„… finished the regular season as the NFL’s top-scoring offense.Denver’s offense, in comparison, had hobbled …” „… captured information to assist coaches in the development of game plans. In the NFL’s infancy, advance …” „… , though, to survive in the NFL.COUNTERMEASURESJust like teams collect on opponents’ tells and tendencies …”

Index S. 235-246

„… Football League (AFL), xvi–xvii, 207; coaches in, 27; competition with, 158–61, 207; NFL and, 155–58 …” „… Patriots, 98; in NFL, 30, 61, 76; playbooks for, 29; players and, xiv–xv, 30, 78–80; practice for, 12–13 …” „… ; in NFL, xvi–xvii, 205–10; from photography, 49–50; from place mat, 23–24; from playbooks, 27; during …”

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