{"product_id":"9781550174489","title":"Goin' Deep: The Life and Times of a CFL Quarterback","description":"\"Put aside the fact that it ended my playing career, punched holes in my memory and put life as I knew it on indefinite hold, it wasn't that tough a hit.\"\u003cp\u003eThus begins \u003ci\u003eGoin' Deep\u003c\/i\u003e, Matt Dunigan's gritty, often startling memoir of his 14-year journey as a Canadian Football League quarterback, a career brought to a shattering halt on an afternoon in Hamilton in 1996 in a game he still cannot remember. It is a story that takes readers where football fans cannot go--down the stadium runway into the dressing rooms--where injury is a fact of life, injections can put agony on temporary hold, and the tough-minded live by the credo that \"Pain is mind over matter. If you don't mind the pain, it doesn't matter.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut \u003ci\u003eGoin' Deep\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a football story. The concussion suffered in that game against the BC Lions marked the end of Dunigan's brilliant Hall of Fame career in the no-quarter world of professional football--and the beginning of another journey still in progress, where some days start third-and-long and memories can be shrouded in a drifting, frustrating fog that may or may not clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You play the hand you're dealt,\" he says. \"There are good days and bad days. Sometimes putting sentences together can be a struggle. Some days Kathy will say 'Remember when such-and-such,' and I can't. But these are my cards, and I'll play 'em.\" The way he's played and continues to play them as a TSN football CFL analyst makes \u003ci\u003eGoin' Deep\u003c\/i\u003e a riveting, heart-warming read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harbour Publishing Company, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055021539568,"sku":"9781550174489","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781550174489_p0.jpg?v=1763751622","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550174489","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}