In 1990, while working on a news story about homelessness for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Pultizer-Prize winning photographer Ted Jackson happened upon a half-naked drug addict sleeping under a Mid-City bridge. After shooting a quick photo, he woke the man and was stunned by what he said. The man pointed to a series of articles in the daily newspaper by his feet, looked Ted in the eye and said, “You ought to do a story about me.” Ted Jackson asked him why. “Because,” the homeless man said, “I’ve played in three Super Bowls.” Thus prompted Ted Jackson's now 29-year relationship with fallen star cornerback Jackie Wallace—a man who had once risen to the pinnacle of his sport, only to crash to the depths of the streets of New Orleans. At turns tragic and triumphant, inspiring and heartrbeaking, You Ought to Do a Story About Me offers a rare glimpse into the reckless world of homelessness and the inner workings of New Orleans's racial issues from the seventies through the modern day. Like a poet writing a novel for the first time, Ted Jackson's account is pure, singular, and ambitious—a character-driven and timeless tale about redemption in all its multifarious forms.