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    NFL Brawler: A Player-turned-agent's Forty Years in the Bloody Trenches of the National Football League
    NFL Brawler: A Player-turned-agent's Forty Years in the Bloody Trenches of the National Football League
    NFL Brawler: A Player-turned-agent's Forty Years in the Bloody Trenches of the National Football League
    Audiobook8 hours

    NFL Brawler: A Player-turned-agent's Forty Years in the Bloody Trenches of the National Football League

    Written by Ralph Cindrich

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

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    About this audiobook

    NFL Brawler is a raucous first-person account of an NFL under siege by the game's first player-turned-agent, Ralph Cindrich, the original "Blind Side" agent. This entertaining pro football memoir takes listeners behind the scenes of the game's most important and outrageous drafts, deals, and trades; takes on NFL scandals by telling it like it is; and takes listeners closer to the real action of the sport-from locker rooms to boardrooms, and into the worlds of agents and players-than any book to date.
    Chronicling more than thirty years in the professional football business, Ralph Cindrich, twice named by the Sporting News as one of the 100 most powerful people in sports, writes about the who's who of professional football: NFL personnel like Jimmy Johnson, Bill Polian, and Bill Parcells; NFL owners like Art Rooney and Al Davis; sports agents; and, of course, NFL players like Herschel Walker, Bill Fralic, and James Farrior.
    While taking certain aspects of his beloved sport to task, Cindrich delivers a memoir that is a must-listen for any fan of the game.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 15, 2015
    ISBN9781494586317
    NFL Brawler: A Player-turned-agent's Forty Years in the Bloody Trenches of the National Football League

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    • 4/5
      Small town Avella, PA came to life in the early part of Cindrich's book, but you had to know Aliquippa was going to come up. Somehow it always does in football tales so it's only fitting that he & Mary ended up marrying there. I enjoyed the underlying child of immigrant stories in the early parts of the book - such a classic tale in the early/mid 20th century especially in such a blue collar area. Small Town USA.As much as this book was a tribute to NFL Pioneers in Art Rooney, Joe Robbie and Bill Polian, it was in many ways also a tribute to the changing field/work of NFL agents. Having not read or seen The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, I hadn't previously realized the pivotal role that Cindrich played in the field. It was also great to see someone whose career was cut short due to injury forge a second and life-long career within his favorite sport. Reading some of the protracted contract negotiations with folks like Billy Fralic and Al Toon make you realize how different the game is now, especially with the new CBA. Rookie holdouts are almost extinct.From following Cindrich on twitter, I knew some of the stories of his more recent clients but I enjoyed the in depth profile of some of the others including James Farrior, Rodney Hampton, Jeff Saturday and Zach Strief. A nice look at the inside world of agents beyond what makes the news.Yes-the writing could use some polish in some areas but I don't read sports memoirs expecting a Pulitzer, so this didn't detract from the reading experience for me. I felt like I was listening to Cindrich tell stories-which is part of what I loved.