"Dressed in a khaki jumpsuit, his face red in a way that suggests recent tears, Owen Hanson describes his life behind bars. On his first day in prison, another inmate gave him a weapon a bonecrusher and told him to keep it on him at all times. I'm some fucking surfer kid from Redondo Beach and you're telling me I have to go to war?! Hanson says, shakily."
"The steroids were for his own use. But soon he would be hawking them to his fellow footballers at the University of Southern California, a place conjured up here via exuberant archive footage of players flinging themselves through the air and marching bands. Before long, Hanson was dealing harder drugs and working with one of the world's most dangerous organised crime groups, Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel."
"He had, says Alex Cody Foster the co-author of his memoir the hustle mindset. More than once it is said that he could have been the CEO of a Fortune 500 company had he put his mind to it. No more Uggs, mijo' Cocaine Quarterback. Photograph: Courtesy of Prime Gladly, Cocaine Quarterback turns out to be more than just an elegy to Hanson's business acumen."
Owen Hanson grew up with his father's alcoholism and his parents' divorce shaping his early life. He began smuggling steroids from Tijuana, concealing them in his underwear, and sold them to fellow USC football players. He escalated to trafficking harder drugs and formed ties with Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel. Associates and his co-author describe a relentless 'hustle mindset' and business instincts that could have led to corporate success. The narrative relies heavily on Hanson’s own testimony and exuberant archival college-football footage. Production elements recall the tone of McMillions and involve Mark Wahlberg's Unrealistic Ideas and Jody McVeigh-Schultz's creative team.
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