They Call Me Assassin

Jack Tatum, one of the hardest-hitting safeties in the National Football League during the 1970s, tells his own story in this memoir, written with Peter Golenbock. He traces his path from a childhood in Passaic, New Jersey, and his years at Ohio State, through his rise as a player with the Oakland Raiders, a team known for its toughness and its championship ambitions. He explains where the "Assassin" nickname came from and what it meant to him, and he speaks candidly about the violence of the game and the controversy that followed a 1978 preseason collision with New England's Darryl Stingley.