OT: Johnny Anonymous Football Book
A current player has written a book called "NFL Confidential" which exsposes a lot of dirty things about the NFL. I actually started this thread to see if anyone has read it or if they heard him on the Opie and Jim show on Sirius/XM?? They gave some clues on who wrote this controversial book and I'll just say it's a player we all know well around here.
Anyways if anyone has read the book I would like to hear some more about it.
January 12th, 2016 at 2:08 AM ^
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There goes his career.
January 12th, 2016 at 3:06 AM ^
January 12th, 2016 at 3:10 AM ^
If it's, indeed, a M graduate, it is the gospel and should not be questioned. I mean....like wtf? Accept it, embrace it, learn from it. To do otherwise is well...........just un Michigan like.
January 12th, 2016 at 3:48 AM ^
The big problem with running a corrupt organization is the number of people that you need to lie for you. Eventually somebody with integrity comes along and tells it like it is. Good for him.
January 12th, 2016 at 7:29 AM ^
Interesting... do go on
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January 12th, 2016 at 4:23 AM ^
I read the sample, and Johnny Anonymous starts the book by saying the NFL will destroy him if identified. It seems like Molk would claim to play a different position, not O-line, and give an inaccurate time in the league. This is the worst blind item ever if only names were changed. Someone should ask Ryan Mathews if he ever showed up to practice buck naked...
January 12th, 2016 at 4:28 AM ^
Nah. It's clearly Molk. It's not just the position, year, etc. He talks about personal stuff like his mother dying when he was kid. He knows what he's doing. He's playing the long game here. He probably figures he has/had at best a few years left in the league, anyway.
January 12th, 2016 at 5:14 AM ^
“The whole game, all I could do was turn around and look at my mom,” Dave said 10 years later, blinking back tears. “It was so scary. The cancer was fully in effect. That was right near the end of the season, when it was the worst.”
Late in the game, Dave's team rumbled down to the five-yard line.
“Molk,” coach Jeff Christiansen barked. “You’re in at tailback. Go ahead and score.”
For the two-way lineman, this was a first. He lined up four yards behind the quarterback and took the first-down handoff — stuffed. Second down — stuffed.
On third down, Dave knocked straight through the line and fell into the endzone.
Without a second thought, he picked himself up and kept running. He ran through the gate at the back of the endzone, around the cement sidewalk and all the way up the hill. Glassy-eyed, he handed the football to his mother.
“This is for you, Mom.”
Gail never let that football go.
https://www.michigandaily.com/sports/dave-molk
So not only did his mom watch him play, but it seems like the game had a profound role in his relationship with his mother leading up to her passing.
Then again, this may be something where Molk intentionally altered some details.
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January 12th, 2016 at 5:00 AM ^
I think I might have to pick it up for a read. Anything that exposes the NFL and recuses the sport I love from Goodell and it's ugly history.
January 12th, 2016 at 5:45 AM ^
He has a Michigan degree. If he hates the NFL so much stop taking their money.
January 12th, 2016 at 8:28 AM ^
Why shouldn't this player be entitled to criticize the hypocrisy of the NFL? Interviews like this help foment positive change in a sport that is littered with broken ex-players.
This player has invested enormous resources chasing the NFL dream, and when he got there, he found it to be a charade. Good for him for going public on this - it's not like there are a bunch of other viable football options out there, and by his own words his focus at college was on becoming an NFL player.
I don't get this "suck it up" attitude (as expressed by M Go Cue) at all.
January 12th, 2016 at 8:53 AM ^
January 12th, 2016 at 9:37 AM ^
I didn't mean for that to be taken as an exact quote. "Suck it up" seemed a fair paraphrase for "(i)f he hates the NFL so much stop taking their money". It still does seem like a fair paraphrase, but maybe I'm missing a nuance in your point.
That stated, it is not necessarily realistic to tell a person who has invested their youth into becoming an NFL player to "walk away"* when they find that the NFL is duplicitous and reckless with respect to their health. These guys typically have a 3-5 year earning window to maximize their earnings. I'm sure that once this guy's window is closed, he'll be happy to disclose his identity.
*Paraphrase!
January 12th, 2016 at 9:42 AM ^
January 12th, 2016 at 10:01 AM ^
The median Michigan undergrad income out of school is $59,400 (per payscale.com).*
The median NFL pay is $2.11M. (Big lead sports - per Google hit).
So this player should take a 96% +/- pay cut so that he can talk openly? You're entitled to that opinion, but most folks would want to keep their head fairly low.
(Also, he does not complain about college at all, so I don't get your argument that he should not have taken the free education.)
January 12th, 2016 at 10:35 AM ^
January 12th, 2016 at 9:37 AM ^
I get the reaction against the perceived hypocrisy, but to say that if you don't like what the organization you work for does, your obligation is to quit before you can criticize it is a pretty strong position. Especially given that its the thing they've been training to do all their lives, they perceive they aren't especialy qualified to do anything else, and they only have a brief period in which they can make any money doing it.
January 12th, 2016 at 11:18 AM ^
The player, whomever he is, is quite clear about why he keeps playing: he absolutely loves the game. He hates the NFL as an organization but loves playing football. Walking away from it is very hard.
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January 12th, 2016 at 7:20 AM ^
apparently Michigan Men can write
Another good example:
If I Don't Six (link) by Elwood Reid
A great read but not too flattering of college football or the culture around it, or even the fictionalized "Coach Ro".
January 12th, 2016 at 9:03 AM ^
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