Muck City: Winning and Losing in Football’s Forgotten Town Audiobook (Free)

In a town deep in the Florida Everglades, where high school football is the only get away, a haunted quarterback, a returning hero, and a scholar struggle against terrible odds.

The loamy black “muck” that surrounds Belle Glade, Florida once built an empire for Big Glucose and provided much of the country’s vegetables, often over the backs of roving, destitute migrants. Several were kids who honed their skills along the field rows and began one of the most renowned football applications in about Muck Town: Being successful and Losing in Football’s Neglected Town America. Belle Glade’s high school team, the Glades Central Raiders, provides sent a fantastic amount of players to the Country wide Football League – 27 since 1985, with five of these drafted in the first round.

The industry that gave rise to the town and its own team also spawned the chronic poverty, teeming migrant ghettos, and violence that cripples futures before they can ever begin. Muck Town tells the storyplot of quarterback Mario Rowley, whose fantasy is to earn a championship for his deceased parents and peaceful the spirits that haunt him; mind coach Jessie Hester, the town’s 1st NFL star, who returns house to “win kids, not really championships”; and Jonteria Willliams, who must build her imagine learning to be a doctor in another of the poorest high colleges in the nation. For guys like Mario, being a Raider is usually a one-shot home window for get away and a university education. Without soccer, Jonteria and the others must make it on brains and fortitude alone. For the coach, good motives must battle a town’s obsession to win above all else.

Beyond the Fri night lamps, this book is an engrossing portrait of the community mired within a shameful past and uncertain future, but with the fierce will to survive, win, and get away to an improved life.