Born and raised in South Dallas, Chad Brown started playing football on his neighborhood streets in the early 60's. He made his way from street hero to high school hotshot to All-American at East Texas State University, and finally to a draft pick of the Steelers. After a roller coaster ride of a professional career and a brief stint as a college line coach (his team went 0-10), Chad decided to see how he would look in stripes. Beginning with his first call in a Pop Warner game to his NFL debut as an umpire in an intense 1992 Redskins-Cowboys Monday-night matchup, Inside the Meat Grinder puts you right on the field as you dodge flying 300-pound human projectiles and deal head-on with the trash talk and the big egos of the NFL. You will also meet the "Chad Brown All-Meat Grinder Team," made up of the players most likely to exasperate even the most experienced NFL officials. This book will take you inside the world of NFL officiating as never before, as Chad and four of the league's finest officials reveal their lives as the NFL's "police" in a no-holds-barred round-table discussion.

After a season filled with botched coin tosses and phantom touchdowns, Inside the Meat Grinder sheds new light and an unprecedented perspective on NFL officials...