CONTENTS

About the Author

PREFACE
I Wasn’t Out Cold, But I Was Out

1. A Brief and Wildly Subjective History of Football

2. A Deep and True Joy Penetrated My Being

3. You Knock My Brains Out This Sunday and I Knock Your Brains Out the Next Time We Meet

4. This Eager Violence of the Heart

5. “Get Money!” on Three

6. The Love Song of Richie Incognito

7. The Blind Spot

8. Their Sons Grow Suicidally Beautiful

9. All Games Aspire to a Condition of War

10. Bill Simmons Draws the Line

EPILOGUE
Stop Being a Fan, Start Being a Player

Acknowledgments