ALL BALLS - THEY SAID AN AUSSIE COULDN'T MAKE IT - 2002

They said an Aussie couldn't make it, so Colin Scotts did.

As a 14-pound, two-foot long baby, Colin Scott's dad put a rugby ball in his crib.  His Mum says he was good with all balls from the start - tennis, golf, cricket, you name it.  But when a University of Hawaii scout spotted him in the Australian Schoolboys rugby team at the age of eighteen and asked if he'd like to play gridiron, that was a whole new ball game.

As the first Australian to win a football scholarship in the States and be drafted into the NFL, Colin's life soon became a glamorous adventure involving money, private jets, women and the amazing characters who became his mates.  But the dark side, where brutality, ruthlessness and greed often ruled unopposed, was never far away.  Despite that, Colin beat the Yanks at their own game and left his indelible mark.

Colin's ten-year gridiron career ended suddenly with a freak injury but, undaunted, he went on to become a successful businessman, a regular at Hollywood parties and pro-wrestler in the WWF, and even recorded his own version of 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down' in Nashville before heading home in a whirlwind of controversy for the Olympics.

This book is a deeply funny, heartfelt and refreshingly honest story in which the Kennedys, Liza Minnelli and Robert de Niro play a role alongside the ordinary American folk whom Colin came to love and sometimes understand.  It also offers a real insight into the most intense, complex and explosive game in the world, and a timely warning about where sport - and our culture - could be heading.

This 282 page softcover is illustrated with black and white photographs.  This book is new and as such is in an excellent, tight, clean condition inside and out.