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Out of the Pocket

Football, Fatherhood, and College GameDay Saturdays

by Kirk Herbstreit
Gene Wojciechowski
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This powerfully intimate, plain-spoken memoir about fathers and sons, fortitude, and football from the face and voice of college football—Kirk Herbstreit—is not just "a window into the game, but also a peek into what makes him special: his heart" (David Shaw, head coach, Stanford University).
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 does what his father did for him: takes you inside the locker rooms, to the practice fields, to the meeting rooms, to the stadiums. Herbstreit describes 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 takes you into the television production meetings, on to the GameDay set, and into the broadcast booth. You'll live his life during a football season, see the things he sees, experience every chaotic twist and turn as the year unfolds. Not to mention the relationships he's established and the insights he's learned from the likes of coaches and players such as Nick Saban, Tim Tebow, Dabo Swinney, and Peyton Manning, as well as his colleagues, including Chris Fowler, Rece Davis, and his "second dad," the beloved Coach Lee Corso.

Yes, Kirk Herbstreit is the undeniable face and voice of college football—but he's also a survivor. He's the quiet kid who withstood the collapse of his parents' marriage. The boy who endured too many overbearing stepdads and stepmoms. The painfully shy student who always chose the last desk in the last row of the classroom. The young man who persevered through a frustrating Ohio State playing career. The new college graduate who turned down a lucrative sales job after college to pursue a "no way you'll make it" dream career in broadcasting.

Inspiring and powerful, Out of the Pocket "proves the importance of perseverance and family" (Peyton Manning).

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    August 17, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781982171032

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      • ISBN: 9781982171032
      • File size: 21839 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      July 1, 2021
      Herbstreit, who as a longtime cohost of ESPN's College GameDay is one of the more recognizable faces in sports broadcasting, delivers a rich, heartfelt, gratitude-filled account of his life. As a kid in a dysfunctional home in suburban Dayton, Herbstreit finds salvation in Ohio State football, where his father starred as the undersized, overachieving co-captain of his team and where Herbstreit himself would languish for four years, then take over as quarterback, and co-captain, his final season. Herbstreit's story here is deeply personal--absent father, impoverishment, conflicts with fellow broadcasters--while also sharing enough insights into the college game, and into the broadcasting world, to gladden the heart of any college-football geek. Expect high demand this coming season.

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