NO Excuses

No Excuses

Author - Derrick Coleman Jr., (Marcus Brother ton) – All Reserved

@ 2015

Jeter Publishing

Growing up Deaf and Achieving My Super Bowl Dreams

Review

By

Sampson Onwuka

The book concerns the dreams of a professional, Derrick Coleman Jr., diagnosed deaf at 3 and winning Super Bowl for National Football Federation.  The dream was achieved under Seattle Hawks in 2014 (XLVIII) with marvels and heavy expectation fulfilling lifelong quest with special case of hearing impaired. This is one the few books recently released by Jeter Publishing dealing linear stories of sports expectations in very trying circumstances – correlating perhaps a year. The year for Derrick is 2014 against the insulating background on his past which began with shortfalls in learning disability resolved as deafness with his family – especially his mother wondering about his future.

To get a broad stroke on the great demands of the NFL and the prism that distil some of the pictures, we look at the consideration of his clear cut English, that “There are about 37, 000 high schools in America. Most high schools are going to have football programs. Each high school team has about 50 players. That’s about 1.8 million high school players total. That’s where the pool of potential NFL players begins – a pool as big as the ocean is wide.”  The stakes are high and there are no rooms for handicap. Perhaps a player is saved from the category of handicap and is given a chance, the charity dies a second death when upon a game day, and conditions overstate the end result and your team mates rely on. You are disabled if you perhaps fail to hold the lines.

We get the story every so often and every now and then after struggles in the Sport industries and the learned attempt and finishing a special in flying colors. Perhaps 2014, was not meant to be the year when the ring will upon his fingers, but there is something in the laundry list of excuses that could bar his way but failed to essentially succumb, yet he looks in style to some of the special moments which will not repeat itself, and discover that the fault where by nature biological, the courage that courts the special talent eventually wins the day. No one will fail to indulge the competency level of NFL players but we appreciate these efforts differently when there are ‘about 115 colleges across America’ with ‘NCAA Division I football programs.’ where each school has about 110 players with spare capacity in other divisions II.  

In every high school player there is always the dream of a better year, a chance to play at the NFL, and when that chance arrives, there is hardly any replacement than a super bowl. This to me and perhaps to others may be the cornerstone of his book, how a focused life can lead to very effective and multi-interesting direction.