Van had always been the small guy his class at Kennedy High School. He played football since he was eight, but he never filled out (One of the many reasons that he was always the butt of the team's practical jokes). On the team, he was forced into doing all the grunt work. The fact that he was a senior returning to the team for the forth year did not exempt him as it did …showed first 75 words of 957 total…

…showed last 75 words of 957 total…local kid changed all that. Grant, the former "big man on campus" was now a forgotten jock who was no more important than a fly on the cafeteria wall. Van was in heaven. This one sport changed the way he viewed his time at Kennedy High. Where once he hated the years he spent there, he now value the memory of the time he spent at this small-town school where he became a sports hero.