Prologue -- 1. The seed -- 2. The ancestors -- 3. The father -- 4. The hammer -- 5. The coach and the trainer -- 6. The roller coaster -- 7. The doctor -- 8. The reckoning -- 9. The end -- 10. The future -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments

"The story of a young man from small-town Iowa who decided to take his own life rather than continue his losing battle against the traumatic brain injuries (CTE) he had sustained as a no-holds-barred high school football player, and at the same time a larger story about the hot-button issues that football raises about masculinity and violence, and about what values we want to instill in our kids"--