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Original Title:	A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot 8-Inch, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays Football with the Pros
ISBN:	1594201781 (ISBN13: 9781594201783)
Edition Language:	English

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Title	:	A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL
Author	:	Stefan Fatsis
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 338 pages
Published	:	July 3rd 2008 by Penguin Press HC, The
Categories	:	Sports. Nonfiction. Football. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Literature. American. Writing. Journalism

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Fantastic story about a sportswriter who spent three months with the Denver Broncos organization, as a kicker. Hilarious, true, and often heartbreakingly sad about the realities of professional football as a career.

A few years ago, Stefan Fatsis set out to become a Scrabble champion. Now he is trying to be a player in the National Football League. In A Few Seconds of Panic, Fatsis sets out to be an active participant in a National Football League training camp. Given his physical size, athletic prowess and reconstructed knee, he sees the role of kicker as one that may work for him. Fatsis quotes Jason Elam, the Denver Broncos incumbent kicker during that training camp, describing the role of kicker as

I guess the word to describe this type of book is "participatory journalism" - not my term, but I think it fits. Stefan Fatsis decides he wants to go behind the scenes in the NFL and document his experience. The first thing he has to do is find a team willing to indulge him, and he's surprised when Mike Shanahan and the Denver Broncos agree to let him come to camp as a kicker. The book describes the training the author put himself through on his own time to make himself a credible placekicker,

I really enjoyed this book because the concept is unlike anything I have ever read or even heard about. This novel is a true story about a sportswriter, Stefan Fatsis, who actually tries out for an NFL team and participates in training camp. Everyone expected him just to hang out with the players to write his stories, but he actually wanted to work at his kicking craft and even worked with one of the premier kicking teachers in the world. This book was very interesting to read because even

I read Stefan Fatsis's "Word Freak" a few years ago and enjoyed it, and I'm a casual football fan, so when I saw this at the library, I thought it might be a good read. I was right. In addition to the interesting inside look at the running of a football team, I also got a humbling reminder that football players are human. They get frustrated with their bosses and with the repetition of the daily grind, just like we all do. They struggle with the capriciousness of the NFL when it comes to their

(This review was originally posted to the wrong book)I had a good friend who was a sports fanatic. His biggest dream was to rub shoulders with professionals players in the locker room and see what they were like. Incidentally this friend became a sports writer for a small newspaper (Deseret News) and was given all access pass to courtside and the locker room of the Utah Jazz. At first this friend told me he was entranced by these superstar athletes; their size, athleticism, persona. But then

Fatsis does a Plympton and kicks in NFL practices. Very good.