Peter Gent, former offensive end for the Dallas Cowboys and author of North Dallas Forty, has written another novel about professional football [Texas Celebrity Turkey Trot]. It has the interest of any inside look written by someone who knows what he is talking about. Who but a professional football or basketball player would think "real people are tiny?" Gent is not just another athlete turned author. He has real talent. His novel is very funny, if your tolerence for jock humor consisting of scatology, crude sex and good-natured racial slur is high, but there is more here than just another knockabout vehicle for Burt Reynolds.

Gent's real subject is the problem that plagues professional athletes, which he himself solved by becoming a novelist—what do they do when they are too old or hurt to play?… The book deals with [Mabry Jenkins's] attempt to cope with his situation...