False Start by Paul Hoblin

Author:Paul Hoblin [Hoblin, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Athlete, Athletes, Darby Creek, Football, Football Game, Football player, Football Players, Football Team, Football Teams, Gridiron, Hi/Lo, High Interest, High School, High School Athlete, High School Athletes, High School Football, High School Football Player, High School Football Players, High School Life, High School Sports, High School Struggles, High School Student, High School Students, High/Low, low reading level, Reluctant Reader, School, Sport, Sports, Struggling Reader, Teens, Touchdown, Sports & Recreation, Sports, Football, General Fiction, Coming of age, Growing up, False Start, Paul Hoblin, Rival, Rivalries, Rivalry, Running back, Scholarship, Sports Scholarship, Start, Startting Lineup
ISBN: 9781512481976
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Published: 2017-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

Jeff

I created the hole Scooter ran through. Me.

We won the game, 17–10.

So why, in that moment, did it feel like I had lost?

Chapter 26

Scooter

I get it. Jeff was furious. And he had good reasons.

Because here’s the thing about thunder and lightning.

You only see the lightning.

Fans don’t pay attention to the four-yard run, even if it set up the forty-yard run.

That next week Coach tried to explain to the local reporters how well Jeff had played. But they didn’t want to hear about it.

All my life I’ve been shy, but that week I forced myself to speak up. “The real hero of the game was Jeff,” I said. “When you’re done talking to me, you should talk to Jeff.”

Jeff, Jeff, Jeff. He’s all I talked about.

All they heard, though, was a kid trying to say all the right things.

We all like it when the star player says the right things. But we find it boring too. We give them credit for spouting clichés. But we also treat their words as a waste of time.

By mid-week, I’d given up and gone quiet again.

Honestly, I felt bad for Jeff, but what’s the point of speaking up if no one’s listening?

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