Football Novels & Stories

Just that. I read it once straight through without stopping, the way I read things that mattered, letting the whole thing exist before I had opinions about any piece of it. She opened with the first game. Not with us. With the football. The tunnel, the crowd noise, the particular quality of a stadium before the opening snap. She built the sport first, built it carefully, with the specific love of someone who genuinely understood what they were writing about. The route timing and the pre-snap communication and the completed passes that shouldn't work and did.

Lily, who was lost in her thoughts did not hear what Mr McClean asked so when she opened her mouth the only word that came out was, "What?" "I like playing tennis ball. Long tennis. I do that for fun. What do you like to do for fun?" Mr McClean asked again. "Er, yes, I like to read," Lily replied. "Any physical activity?" Mr McClean asked as they resumed their walking. "I could say football, but I have never played one," Lily replied. "That is interesting. I have never heard of women expressing interest in football. Would you like to give it a try?" Mr McClean asked.

I grumbled. He grinned. "It's better than running around catching that elongated ball in a field." I glared at Wade. He wasn't the sporty kind of dude; all he ever does is play video games and his favorite, romancing the ladies. That man hoe... "It's called football, Wade," I said through clenched teeth. "Try playing it and you would understand how great contact sport is rather than lying around on your couch playing god knows what on your XBOX." He rolled his eyes. "Right, and I'll get all sweaty and icky. Yeah, very sexy indeed."

Maybe there was something she could do to help after all. She walked over to the television and turned on the sports channel. A football game appeared on the screen, and seemed to be at an intense moment. The crowd could be heard yelling for their favorite team. Katalea turned up the volume. Dakari must have heard because he walked back inside with interest. “You like football?” He asked incredulously. “I love any sport!” She replied with enthusiasm. It happened to be her favorite team that currently held the lead. “Why don’t we just watch TV and chill for a bit?”

Arella THE LIVING room already blasted with loud noises from the TV and from Dad and my brother, Brett. They were football fans—the soccer one. Brett was a die-hard fan of Manchester, while Dad was a Real Madrid, and as for me, I was a neutral. Well, if I was being honest, I knew American football, but soccer, on the other hand, was different. Instead of throwing the ball, the players kicked it toward the opposing team’s goalkeeper to score. And they called it a goal. And the NFL and FIFA balls were different in shape. Why in the hell am I talking about balls right now?

We watch as sand and rain blinds the mutts and Sky starts hitting some of them with lightning setting them alight like little beacons, "Look," Gregory says pointing to the body's on fire "It's a path," I look to see a path had been made, so following the lit up bodys we head towards the girls. As we get to the girls Gregory bends down to check Mathew and all me and Acre can do is stare at our beautiful mates, "What are you lookin at?" my precious mate spits at me with a venomous tongue, "me err, erm I" Acre starts laughing at me,

Alright,we'll try them out" the older cop said as they descended the flights. Tom had his shoes on now, they felt different, they looked different, a little new, polished in fact, a thought collided with the shoe mystery, he had to get to the bank, his account must be emptied today, he had to fix his apartment, no, that could wait. He had to catch the game, he has a voucher, yeah, he wouldn't miss that.

In response, Annie rolled her eyes but remained grinning softly. Finally, she spotted Leo. He was talking amongst some of the other guys on the team, including Jack. He was dressed in all his football gear, holding the helmet in his hands. The back of his jersey read 'SMITH' with the number 03 underneath in a large font. Throughout the game, Annie found herself having a better time than she expected. She was laughing alongside Amari every time Jay would start to get annoyed when the other team would get a touchdown. She didn't cheer much because she was a quiet person but every time Jack or Leo would be running with the football

Alex: besides, I’m almost done with the project. SEBASTIAN KEATES: fine, whatever you say. SEBASTIAN KEATES: How bout you join the football team then? Alex: I don’t play football. SEBASTIAN KEATES: Basketball then? Alex: I don’t intend on being the shortest in the team SEBASTIAN KEATES: LMAO you know you aren’t short. Alex: but definitely not as tall as the rest of the members of the basketball team. SEBASTIAN KEATES: Fine.

This time, he doesn’t say a word, gives one of the special teams lineman a slap on the back, and jovially runs onto the field. The players line up and the center hikes the ball to Kelson. Jordan’s focus is the football and she runs forward. I know something’s wrong when her step hitches slightly before she reaches the ball. I also notice half-assed blocking by a few of the players. The ball is deflected and it spins upward. There’s a mad dash to catch the ball in the air when it bounces off a player’s fingers and Jordan snags it. Shit.