Chapter 35
Chapter Thirty-Five
NOAH
The stadium is buzzing for the high-stakes game.
I can feel the ground rumbling beneath my cleats in response.
Today we’re playing our AFC rivals, the Griffons.
The season is already close to over. We are starting to back ourselves into a must-win position.
The race for playoffs is on. We’ve been heating up, and tonight I think we might be on fire.
Sports broadcasters are already talking about the ways that the cookie has to crumble to get us in the playoffs.
Right now, we’re fighting for our lives to get a wildcard spot.
We won’t have any homefield advantage or playoff byes, but we don’t need them.
We just need a chance, and at seven and four we might have one.
The Griffons are one loss behind us and they’re getting desperate.
Everyone knows if they don’t come home with something this year, their head coach is getting canned.
That’s the way it works in football. Each head coach has a couple years to make something happen (or have a good excuse why it didn’t) and keep their job.
Without a championship, Super Bowl, or winning record to show, their ass is grass. Players aren’t much different either.
We need this win to propel us into the off-season schedule.
So it’s about to be a bloodbath.