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Jalen Hurts Joining the Ranks of Philadelphia Athletes in Children’s Literature
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Super Bowl champion Jalen Hurts, who can squat 600 pounds, is releasing a children’s book:
It’s a hardcover book that won’t be released until March of 2026, according to the publisher’s website, but you can pre-order it for $19.99. Then it will ship about two weeks after the Birds win their second-straight Super Bowl with a 37-21 win over the Buffalo Bills in which Sean McDermott is completely broken by his team’s inability to stop the tush push.
Here is the blurb for Better Than a Touchdown:
From Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts comes an empowering story about friendship, the power of teamwork, and achieving goals together.
Jalen is so excited for the new school year because this is the year he’ll finally get to try out for the football team! But when he arrives at school, he learns the unthinkable—that the football team has been cut. He and his friends are devastated. But Jalen isn’t ready to give up, and with some advice from some friends, maybe—just maybe—they can save the day.
Better than a Touchdown is a love letter to the power of community, being there for one another, and how a piece of good advice can change the course of a day. Told with Jalen’s signature wisdom and gorgeous art by Nneka Myers, Better than a Touchdown carries a message we can all learn from: that by working together, there’s nothing we can’t accomplish.
Sounds like a good story. You throw in the recent books co-authored by Brian Westbrook, Brandon Graham, and Lesley Van Arsdall, and you’ve got an entire arsenal of Birds-related stuff for your aspiring young bibliophiles to consume. You start them on these books, then open it up to intermediate level with Ray Didinger’s Eagles Encyclopedia (Champion’s Edition). There is no shortage of Philadelphia sports literature out there.
Sources say that a few of the chapter titles for Jalen’s book have been leaked! They include, but are not limited to, “Rat Poison,” “Next Question,” “Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing,” and “That’s What the Fuck I Do.” We are trying to determine if the bonus chapter, “Money is Nice, Championships are Better,” made the book’s final version.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com