NFL Brawler, Ralph Cindrich
NFL Brawler, Ralph Cindrich
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NFL Brawler
A Player-turned-agent's Forty Years in the Bloody Trenches of the National Football League

Author: Ralph Cindrich

Narrator: R. C. Bray

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/15/2015

Synopsis

NFL Brawler is a raucous first-person account of an NFL under siege by the game's first player-turned-agent, Ralph Cindrich, the original "Blind Side" agent. This entertaining pro football memoir takes listeners behind the scenes of the game's most important and outrageous drafts, deals, and trades; takes on NFL scandals by telling it like it is; and takes listeners closer to the real action of the sport—from locker rooms to boardrooms, and into the worlds of agents and players—than any book to date.

Chronicling more than thirty years in the professional football business, Ralph Cindrich, twice named by the Sporting News as one of the 100 most powerful people in sports, writes about the who's who of professional football: NFL personnel like Jimmy Johnson, Bill Polian, and Bill Parcells; NFL owners like Art Rooney and Al Davis; sports agents; and, of course, NFL players like Herschel Walker, Bill Fralic, and James Farrior.

While taking certain aspects of his beloved sport to task, Cindrich delivers a memoir that is a must-listen for any fan of the game.

About Ralph Cindrich

A star linebacker at the University of Pittsburgh, Ralph Cindrich played for the NFL's New England Patriots, Houston Oilers, and Denver Broncos. In the 1980s he became one of the game's most prominent player agents. Today he represents several second-generation clients, teaches sports-law classes, and serves as an expert witness in multimillion-dollar labor cases. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Mary.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ben on November 23, 2015

The only likeable sports agent I've read about (other than Jerry Maguire, who was fictional) has penned a surprisingly good read, primarily anecdotes about negotiation trench warfare with colorful but egomaniacal GMs and coaches.......more

Goodreads review by Carianne on January 28, 2016

Small town Avella, PA came to life in the early part of Cindrich's book, but you had to know Aliquippa was going to come up. Somehow it always does in football tales so it's only fitting that he & Mary ended up marrying there. I enjoyed the underlying child of immigrant stories in the early parts of......more

Goodreads review by Ian on March 04, 2018

It was pretty good for a while, then I got sick of it. I don't like his tone. He's been an NFL agent for 40 years, and if this book is to be believed, he's won every negotiation he's ever been involved in. There's no mention of any mistakes that were made at any point along the way. He's tough. He's a......more

Goodreads review by David on October 16, 2017

This is a must read for any NFL fan. Ralph Cindrich speaks forthrightly and credibly as a former player and sports agent. Great insight into the dynamics between players and owners in the modern NFL; his barstool stories and first-hand anecdotes salted throughout the book make it a most interesting......more

Goodreads review by David on May 20, 2023

Cindrich tells his story well, though he's so successful in every aspect of it that it is hard to believe there aren't plenty of people out there who could tell the other side of some of these stories.......more

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