Out Of The Pocket - Football, Fatherhood, And College Gameday Saturdays

Out of the Pocket

Description:
A powerfully intimate, plain-spoken memoir about fathers and sons, fortitude, and football from the face and voice of college football-Kirk Herbstreit.
Kirk Herbstreit is a reflection of the sport he loves, a reflection of his football-crazed home state of Ohio, where he was a high school star and Ohio State captain, and a reflection of another Ohio State football captain thirty-two years earlier: his dad Jim, who battled Alzheimer’s disease until his death in 2016.

In Out of the Pocket, Herbstreit will do what his father did for him: take you inside the locker rooms, to the practice fields, to the meeting rooms, to the stadiums. Herbstreit will describe how a combination of hard work, perseverance, and a little luck landed him on the set of ESPN’s iconic College GameDay show, surrounded by tens of thousands of fans who treat their Saturdays like a football Mardi Gras.

He’ll take you into the television production meetings, on to…