A current pro player takes fans on the pseudonymous trip through one of the most infamous years of football-the lengthy, sometimes funny, often controversial 2013-2014 season-sharing raucous, behind-the-scenes, on-the-field, and in-the-locker-room truth about existence in the National Football League.

“Good, to hell with getting safe. I’ll be honest.”

Johnny Anonymous’ lifestyle goal was to be nothing greater or less than the Best NFL Back-Up of All Time™. For two years, he was content material getting about NFL Confidential: True Confessions from your Gutter of Football thousands of dollars to stand for the sidelines performing nothing at all. But early in his third year, a beginning lineman is hurt, and he abruptly finds himself within the field.

For most players, this instant is a dream become a reality. But not so for our writer, among the extremely rare birds in football who reach the highest echelons, but who actually hate America’s favorite game. That is right. Johnny Anonymous hates soccer. He hates what it does to his body, his human brain, his life. Luckily, he can easily see the humor in his very own situation, but also in the machinations from the NFL.

Component truth-telling narrative, component whip-smart commentary that only a genuine insider could bring, component hilarious, NFL Confidential gives football fans a look at a global most would give anything to see, and provides nonfans a crazy ride through the strange, and sometimes disturbing traditions and realities of football today. Here is a truly unaffiliated go through the nation’s biggest, most lucrative pastime over the course of one of its many transformative seasons.

From hard-to-stomach diet plans, showdowns in the weight space, shenanigans in the locker room, the looming dread to be cut from the team, the racial conditions that still exist in modern-day football, the rock-star lifestyle that players end up in a position to afford and sometimes enjoy a little too much, the notion of being lauded in a league plagued by controversy and the sharp contrast between your like/hate of the game and the truth of the job, Johnny reveals a never-before-seen side from the NFL.