Philadelphia Eagles star receiver A.J. Brown could launch a book club of his own after a little sideline reading skyrocketed self-help author Jim Murphy to the hottest seller on Amazon overnight.
The Eagles wide receiver passed on the playbook and checked out an inspirational title — Brown casually ignored the action in Philadelphia’s playoff game and flipped through the pages of Murphy’s book, “Inner Excellence.”
The little-known book by the mental skills coach was listed No. 1 on Amazon’s best-sellers list as of Monday morning.
“I was not expecting that. A real gift,” Murphy said by phone Monday. “I just looked at Amazon last night and it got to No. 1, so that was a surprise. It had probably never been higher than probably 8 or 9,000. In the thousands, somewhere.”
Nine thousand? Keep going. Down. Way down.
The book took the top spot on the trending list after previously being ranked 523,497th. That jump earned it another top spot on the marketplace’s movers & shakers list. More here