Former NFL Player
The former football player for the Miami Dolphins recounts his battle with post-football financial disaster, cocaine addiction, incapacitating medical problems, and a conviction for hyped-up drug charges that he fought all the way to State Supreme Court
By Eugene "Mercury" Morris |
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with Steve Fiffer Availability: Out of Print
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Message from Mercury Morris:
"Against the Grain" is the true story about what “Really” happened to "Mercury Morris”! Buy the book, read it, and pass it on, buy it for a friend, or gift, it’s a good story because it has a good ending. Plus some good action photos.
I played on the greatest team ever, the 1972 Miami Dolphins “Perfect Season”. I left professional football with the NFL's second leading yards per carry average, 5.14; behind Jim Brown and in front of Gayle Sayers. We are the only three backs in the history of the game to manage a 5-yard career average. I too am proud to be in the company of the “great ones.”
I will personally send you a signed and personalized copy of my book. Please specify whose name and what inscription you wish to have in your book. Help me spread the word by getting my book for your sports collection , that would make my day as I hope to have made yours.
Sincerely,
Eugene “Mercury” Morris
17-and “0”nly us!!
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Off the back cover:
"Was I bitter? Not really. I would not recommend three days in jail to anyone, much less three years. But I must be honest: I needed to go through what I did to develop the character I had when I became a free man. Had I been allowed to do community service work at the beginning instead of going to jail/ I don't think I would have developed that character. Maybe I knew this subconsciously when Fred Donaldson first approached me in 1982. Maybe subconsciously I let myself get suckered because getting caught was the only way out of that downward spiral. Maybe if I hadn't got caught in this deal where the state set me up, I would have gone on to do other deals and become someone who deserved to be behind bars. Or maybe I would have ended up in a 55-gallon drum like Frank Crawford. I don't know. I do know that the irony was that I was pushed down the hill unfairly by a bullying state. But I needed to be pushed down that hill. Thank God I had the strength to get up." Eugene "Mercury" Morris