As a football player, Ahmad Rashad was never the
type to take the ball home and sleep with it just
because the coaches told him to. Approaching the
game with his own blend of dedication and fun-
loving high spirits, Rashad was an All-Pro wide
receiver during his NFL career, including seven
sparkling seasons with the Minnesota Vikings, and
his star has risen since he left the field in 1982 for
a career in broadcasting, partly because he never
saw football performance as a lifetime achieve-
ment, but mostly because his energy, wide-angle
intelligence, humor, and independent spirit shine
as brightly off the field as on.
These qualities shine as well in the pages of
this very entertaining book--a memoir that is also
an inspiring success story, a football book that
goes beyond the gridiron and cuts to the quick
of real life in the locker room, in the TV studio,
and at home with another star, Phylicia Rashad.
His 1987-1988 broadcasting season for NBC s
popular "NFL Live" show provides opportunities
for Rashad not only to observe the game, its
players, and its controversies today, but to recall
the way things were and the dramatic route of his
own life and two careers.
From his childhood in Tacoma, marred by a
mysterious skin disease, to his college days as
Bobby Moore during the late sixties, when the face
of America, and particularly blacl~America, was
changing; from his initiation into pro football with
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