NFL Brawler: A Player-Turned-Agent's Forty Years in the Bloody

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

NFL Brawler is a raucous first-person account of an NFL under siege by the gameâ€™s first player-turned-agent, Ralph Cindrich, the original â€œBlind Sideâ€ agent whose entertaining pro football memoir takes readers behind the scenes of the gameâ€™s most important and outrageous drafts, deals, and trades; takes on NFL scandals by tellinâ€™ it like it is; and takes readers closer to the real action of the sportâ€”from locker rooms to boardrooms, and into the worlds of agents and playersâ€”than any book to date.
Chronicling more than thirty years in the professional football businessâ€”on the field and in the locker room; in high-stakes negotiations with coaches, GMs, and owners; and inside agentsâ€™ and playersâ€™ personal livesâ€”Cindrich, twice named by The Sporting News as one of the 100 most powerful people in sports, writes about a whoâ€™s who of professional football: NFL coaches like Bill Parcells, Jimmy Johnson, Mike Ditka, Sid Gillman, and Bill Belichick; NFL owners like Art Rooney and Al Davis to Jerry Jones and others; other sports agents; and the NFL talking heads from John Madden to Keyshawn Johnson.
While taking certain aspects of his beloved sport to task, Cindrichâ€™s memoir is entertainingâ€”blowing out of the water Jerry Maguire, Arli$$, and other portrayals of an agentâ€™s life.

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