The 80-Yard Club, Book 2 of 3, The Long Road

Beach Bum to Legend

De: Tim Christmann

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

One kick made him a legend. The next year nearly destroyed him.
Seven weeks after the greatest moment in football history — a ninety-four-yard field goal that won the AFC Championship and shattered every record in the book — Zack Bach can barely bend his knee. The kick that made him a cultural phenomenon also obliterated the joint that made it possible. And the mentor who believed in him before anyone else didn't survive the night.
Now Zack faces a choice: retire as a legend, forever frozen in the highlight reel, or fly to a Swiss clinic for three experimental surgeries with a seventy-five percent chance of saving his career — and a twenty-five percent chance of losing everything for nothing.
He chooses the hard road.
What follows is a year of brutal rehabilitation, crippling isolation, and the slow unraveling of everything he thought held his life together. Five thousand miles from home, Zack confronts an opponent more dangerous than any rival kicker: the silence inside his own head. A surgical complication derails his recovery. Depression pulls him underwater. The people who love him most can't reach him — and the one who reaches him anyway changes everything.
Meanwhile, back in Las Vegas, the woman he loves is carrying a secret that could end them. His team is losing without him. A political coalition is building to eliminate the very rule that made his career possible. And a young Irish kicker has arrived to compete for his job.
The Long Road is a story about what happens after the triumph — when the cameras leave, and the confetti is swept up, and you're alone in a foreign country, wondering if the person you used to be is gone forever. It's about the difference between the kick and the kicker. About broken knees and broken trust. About a therapist who asks the question nobody else will, a best friend who flies across an ocean to kick down your door, and a gray, disreputable cat named Bruno who demands nothing and gives everything.
It's about finding out that the road back from the worst night of your life might lead somewhere worth going — if you can survive the walk.