Football nightmare Dominic Polidor
By Matt Patterson

This book is one of my favorite football books. It’s about a boy named Keith Stedman, was one of the best wide receivers,if not the best, on the Bucks team. Every human makes mistakes. For Keith, one of the mistakes that he made was on what was a undefeated Buck team. The Bucks had one last drive to make an undefeated season. The quarterback threw a perfect pass down field to Keith, but then Keith dropped the ball. It was over for the Buck’s season and the Buck’s suffered for the rest of the offseason, but for Keith it was the worst. For most of the Buck’s were past the time, but for Keith and a kid named Larry, it stayed with them. Larry keeps telling the Buck’s that Keith will choke like last season because Larry wants to have the starting job this season. Keith is depressed that he choked and now never wants to play football again. Keith’s friends, Cody and boy, were helping him to recover from this choke. After enough of convincing Keith, he decided to go back to the Bucks once again. At the first game Keith was doing great, but once again the same scenario happened. This time Keith was ready and he won the games for the Bucks. The nightmare was over.


Again this book is one of one of my favorite football books. James Patterson did a great job of explaining Keith’s depression. He also showed how it would feel to be in a football game and how it would feel if this has happened to you. I would recommend this book for middle schoolers because it’s similar to how we would talk to each other. It also shows how to learn the basics of football to beginners. On a scale of one through ten, this book would be a 9 and a half because I wish there were a couple more hundred pages to see what happens to Keith after the nightmare.