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Title No excuses : growing up deaf and achieving my Super Bowl dreams / Derrick Coleman, Jr., with Marcus Brotherton
Edition First Gallery Books hardcover edition
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 Deafness & Outreach Collection  GV939.C64 A3 2015    AVAILABLE
Subject Coleman, Derrick, Jr
Football players -- United States -- Biography
African American football players -- Biography
Deaf athletes -- United States -- Biography
Add'l Author Brotherton, Marcus, author
Description 260 pages ; 24 cm
Edition First Gallery Books hardcover edition
Note ISLR-Interpreting/Sign Language Resources
Contents 1: Field Dreams -- 2: My Start in Life -- 3: How It All Began to Go Wrong -- 4: "Four Ears" -- 5: Football, Basketball, or a Life of Crime? -- 6: From the Back to the Front of the Line -- 7: I Start Making My Mark -- 8: Hard Hits as a Bruin -- 9: Graduation Day -- 10: Big Hope/Big Disappointment -- 11: How I Learned to Pack a Smaller Suitcase -- 12: Icing My Ankle with Everything i Got -- 13: The Super Session -- 14: Going Viral in the Playoffs -- 15: The Super Bowl -- 16: My Foot, the Future, and You -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author
Summary The first deaf athlete to play offense in the NFL--and win a Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks--relates his story of hard work and determination on his challenging journey to become a professional football player
ISBN 9781476796581
1476796580
OCLC # 910174248