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Just Give Me the Damn Ball!: The Fast Times and Hard Knocks of an NFL Rookie
by Keyshawn Johnson

    Publication Date: May 01, 1997
    List Price: $25.00
    Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780446521451
    Imprint: Time Warner Trade Publishing
    Publisher: Hachette Book Group
    Parent Company: Lagardère Group

    Description of Just Give Me the Damn Ball!: The Fast Times and Hard Knocks of an NFL Rookie by Keyshawn Johnson

    “Well, son, I guess we have to go the to bank.” That’s what Leon Hess told me the day the Jets drafted me as the number-one player in the NFL draft. But that first day, the day of the draft, was one of the happiest days in my life, because I knew I was ready to make things happen in the league and help turn things around for the sorry-ass Jets.

    But what a nightmare! Week after week, loss after loss. The Jets went in with a loser reputation, and they were earning it all over again. We had no emotion, no energy, no hunger. The media tried to cover it all. Rich Kotite tried to explain the disasters away. But nobody outside the team knew the real truth of what really went on. This book is going to change all that.