Good Knights for California Football
By ISAAC BOWERS and Carol Welty Roper
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Good Knights of California is a story about teamwork on and off the playing field. In order for each of us to reach our life goals, it is best to have a teamwork attitude. This attitude is shared by Brady, Leon, Jake, Martin, and Lisa Marie. What they have in common is after school football, with love of the game and a desire to win. The story reveals what motivates these characters to reach their goals by working as a team. Helping others win in life is the go, fight, win of this story and the characters truly earn the name Good Knights.
Good Knights of California was told to me chapter by chapter after Isaac came home from school. A natural athlete, Isaac Bowers excels in any sport he plays. Football is his passion. This story is fiction based on his experiences playing football. The story is Isaacs and I am Carol Welty Roper, the co-author. I worked to make his story come alive on paper.
ISAAC BOWERS
Carol Welty Roper is Isaac Bowers’ grandmother. You can learn more about her writings and art on her blog: www.timelessinktales.com.
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Good Knights for California Football - ISAAC BOWERS
Copyright 2013, 2014 ISAAC BOWERS AND CAROL WELTY ROPER.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.
ISBN: 978-1-4907-0643-6 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4907-0642-9 (e)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013911439
Trafford rev. 08/30/2014
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Contents
Chapter 1 Tryouts on Saturday
Chapter 2 First Cut
Chapter 3 Get Cracking
Chapter 4 Go Knights!
Chapter 5 Practice, Practice, Practice-No Practice!
Chapter 6 An Impossible Dream
Chapter 7 They Said That She Said That He Said!
Chapter 8 Sometimes We All Need A Little Help
Chapter 9 Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
Chapter 10 Nobody Likes A Liar
Chapter 11 Dare To Dream Again
Chapter 12 You Boys Run Like Girls
Chapter 13 Good Knights Are Here Again
Chapter 1
Tryouts on Saturday
F ootball season was officially starting with tryouts on Saturday at 1 p.m. Flyers had been passed out at school and the coaches had presented a special program during lunch period. Jake waited nervously watching for his mom’s minivan to show up after school. When he saw her round the corner, he started waving the flyer for her to see. Jake opened the door and shoved the paper in his mom’s face.
Look, football season is finally here. Can I try out this year; please, please, PLEASE?
His mom smiled a toothy grin. Well Sweetheart, I think this is your year to play. It’s time to live the dream.
He leaned back and buckled his seatbelt. Football
!
You know Jake, I was just picking up Daddy’s suit at the cleaners and I saw the poster announcing the tryouts. Everyone we know loves football. The whole town of Castle is buzzing with excitement and hope for another championship. Whoa! Go Knights!
The minivan slowly passed the school bus just as Leon was putting the football flyer in his backpack. As Leon road home, he worried that his mom would not sign the approval form for tryouts. Leon loved football so he had to be very convincing. She just had to let him play this year. He was so deep in thought he didn’t even notice Lisa Marie and her friends get off at their bus stop.
Lisa Marie lived for football and watched it with her dad. It wasn’t just the snacks or even the extra attention she received from her family when they went to the local games. She loved cheering for the sport and really loved watching how the game was played. Like working a math problem or solving a mystery, Lisa Marie would make up football plays in her mind. She recorded them in her private notebook and shared them with no one, not even Brady, her life-long neighbor friend.
Brady’s parents brought their baby boy home from the hospital wearing an infant-sized football jersey. This child had to live up to a destiny started by his grandfather, who was the star quarterback in the winning team of the 1956 Rose Bowl. His uncle Chuck had played half-back for the New York Jets and his dad had been recruited for Notre Dame and played all four years. Brady ate and slept football. He had football trading cards that most collectors had never seen. Football tryouts on Saturday would be a breeze. Brady knew all about it because his mom had helped distribute the tryout flyers to the schools and to businesses around the town of Castle. She even asked some boys at school if they wanted to earn a little money to help post the flyers and a boy named Martin was the first to volunteer his help. He earned an easy five dollars for an hour’s worth of distribution.
Martin and his family moved to Castle during Christmas break. He was still learning the kid’s names in his class. Being larger than any of his classmates, he kept secret he had failed the third grade two years in a row, because he’d moved so often. He was in the fifth grade so he put his age as eleven years old on the football tryout registration form. Martin knew how to forge his mother’s signature since he signed all her important papers. He had learned the game of football by playing in the fields of Southern California and in the streets in some of the Northern cities. Martin could run fast and catch any ball thrown in his direction. He knew the name of the game was called winning
. At the tryouts on