What It Takes: Fighting for My Life and My Love of the Game

In 2011, Mark Herzlich became a starting linebacker for a New York Giants team that would win the Super Bowl just two years after he had been told that he would never play football again. Now Herzlich tells his triumphant story for the first time. After being named the conference s top defensive pla [...]
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In 2011, Mark Herzlich became a starting linebacker for a New York Giants team that would win the Super Bowl just two years after he had been told that he would never play football again. Now Herzlich tells his triumphant story for the first time. After being named the conference s top defensive player his junior season at Boston College, the budding star was sidelined by a persistent, debilitating pain in his left leg. Mark Herzlich fought a battle against cancer, against statistics, and some days against himself. Told with candor and raw emotion, this is a story for anyone who has ever fought to beat the odds, for anyone who has ever been told that what they are about to attempt is next to impossible."