Alphabet Jackson

By Jack Olsen

Book Overview

The Billygoats, champions of the National Conference of the NFL, are flying to New Orleans for the Super Bowl when their plane is hijacked by a familiar giant with a machine gun, a drug habit and a pair of sure hands....

Alphabet Jackson is the Billygoats' balding offensive center, and he tells the suspenseful, violent and funny story, which really began on the first day of training camp. For Alphabet, the ride to the Super Bowl is a long-held secret dream that threatens to end in a nightmare of flame, twisted metal and death.

With Alphabet, a ten-year veteran coming off a knee operation, you venture into the inner world of pro football with as colorful a cast of characters as you've ever encountered. Alphabet knows his teammates well - the studs, bruisers, boozers and pill poppers. He knows the agonies of the grass drills, the brutal combat in the pit, the savage joy of the game. And he knows the wild hilarity, the "football Annies," the "management moguls," the frantic fans off the field.

But it's not until the plane is hijacked that Alphabet understands some of the things that have been going on all season: the suspicious shift in point spreads, the crazy incidents stirring up racial tensions, the kook telephone calls to wives.

It all comes together on the way to the Super Bowl - in a novel that will hold the championship in its field for years to come.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1073540170
• ISBN13: 9781073540174
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

I can't believe I'm the only one who has read this book!

Unbelievable, hilarious! I read this book on the advice of my father when I was about 12 (this is an adult read) and I have read it about 20 times since and it just becomes funnier every time I read it. I recently lent my very torn paperback to my 13 year old step-son and he actually did a school book report on it. As a woman, I knew virtually nothing about football, but this book explains not only the rules and penalties, but what goes on in the huddles and on the sidelines and in the dormitories during training. You actually become part of the team. Even my thirteen year old, who has nothing in common with me, finally talks to me about this book. READ IT! and have a good day.