Never Shut Up: The Life, Opinions, and Unexpected Adventures of an NFL Outlier
By Marcellus Wiley
Ex-NFL player, gentleman scholar, and Fox Sports personality
Marcellus Wiley sucks you into a world of inner-city violence,
Ivy League intrigue, and pro-football escapades that’s one part
touching, one part hilarious, and all parts impossible to put
down.
Marcellus Wiley has never had a problem expressing his opinion,
whether it was growing up in Compton with a football tucked under
his arm, or going to college at Columbia University, where he
learned to survive Advanced Calculus and self-important
pseudo-intellectuals. Or making it to the NFL against all odds,
where he put together a ten-year career of massive paydays,
massive painkillers, and massive sacks of everyone from Steve
Young to Peyton Manning.
Now, in Never Shut Up, Fox Sports’ hottest rising persona
doesn’t hold back as he goes off on everything that’s
controversial with the game today, from concussions to political
protests to inherent violence that’s worse than the hood he grew
up in. Not because he hates football, but because he wants to
save it.
Marcellus has never held back, even when a lot of people wanted
him to. Now, he’s letting it all hang out–right there on each
page. Way more than just another book about the latest NFL
scandals, this warm, moving, and genuinely funny story of awkward
transitions, family loyalty, fame, fortune, and failure will make
you fall in love with Marcellus–and football–all over
again.
In Never Shut Up, Marcellus will take you on a truly unique
journey from Crenshaw to Broadway to the Buffalo Bills and back
again, sometimes making you laugh, sometimes making you cry, but
always leaving you entertained.