. >> and next steve almond author of "against football" and gregg easterbrook the author of "the king of sports"'s. >> thanks for coming out. it's a beautiful day. we can all agree together we would rather be outside. thank you for being inside for a little bit. i'm going to read just a little bit from the preface of this book which is called i wasn't out cold but i was out and it has two setup of the book is about. it begins with the fact that i have a clipping on my wall for many years which is a game story that's about a game between the new england patriots in the miami dolphins and there's a player named kevin faulk gets tackled and after the game is asked about the tackle because he is motionless on the ground for quite sometime. quote i wasn't out cold but i was out said faulk. asked if he remembered going on the ground he said no i don't so i must have been out. i knew that something was wrong with me. i knew that like it wasn't normal. i didn't have that same normal feeling when i got up. i thought it was funny that would be the simplest way to explain why it brought the stor