Hearing The Noise: My Life In The NFL

Description for HEARING THE NOISE: MY LIFE IN THE NFL by Preston Pearson: "It's hard to explain to nonathlete friends of mine just how violent professional football is. Down on the field you can hear it, the crack of helmets sounding like artillery rounds, the fearful elemental grunts of big men in the trenches, the brittle sound of a bone snapping, or, worse, the terrible shriek when a knee or maybe a career is lost, grown men growling like ferocious bears and sobbing as little children might and you need to hear the noise to understand." HEARING THE NOISE is the autobiography of Preston Pearson and few football players can boast of more distinguished careers. For fourteen years, he played with and against the greatest names in the sport and here is his candid appraisal of their characters and abilities. Pearson was rightly known as the player his teams went to when they had to succeed. He was a performer who was at his best when he was under pressure. To list his acc