After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.

The wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen Unversity are renowned for many things: wisdom, magic, and their love of teatime but athletics is most assuredly not on the list. So when Lord Vetinari, the city's benevolent tyrant, strongly suggest to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully that the university revive an erstwhile tradition and once again put forth a football team composed of faculty, students, and staff or lose the funding that pays for their nine daily...

In Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Charlie's skill at fantasy football gains the attention of both the local media and the owner of a professional football team.

When his old coach dies, high school football star Neely Crenshaw returns to his hometown after fifteen years, reunites with his former teammates, and struggles to resolve his mixed feelings about the man.