Football Chapter Summaries

The fifth chapter starts out with Arlo talking about how important endurance is in football. Arlo explains how training is important to help keep going throughout the game. Dinos approaches him while completing postgame drills, Arlo then asks Dinos to be his workout partner and Dinos agrees. It then fast forwards to Wednesday and Dinos starts immediately critiquing him on his form. They then both lifted weights and eventually wrestling. It then fast forwards to the next day when Lloyd asks Arlo why is he leaving for school so early. Arlo tells him to work out and Lloyd then says why don't you workout with me and how he thinks that Arlo thinks he's too good to work out with him. They later start preparing for Saturday's game with weightlifting,

Arlo was asking his parents were they sure they wanted Sandy to come over for dinner. Arlo then thinks about how each member of the family spends their thanksgiving separate from each other. Arlo starts to get ready for the football game and Lloyd comes in his room telling him to finish up quickly so they won’t be late. Arlo asks Lloyd for advice on the football game because he wants to do as well as he can and be prepared. Arlo replayed in his mind what to do if a situation happened on the field. During the game, Arlo becomes addicted to hitting everything in sight without thinking much about it. The game finishes and their team lost. Lloyd, Arlo, Sandy, and the boys father talk about how the game went and they say how Arlo did well even though the team lost. Lloyd then starts saying how Arlo was being unnecessary during the game. The chapter fast forwards to Sandy at the family home introducing herself to them. Sandy and the boys mom are in the kitchen together cooking for Thanksgiving. They come back together to eat dinner and start to tell embarrassing stories about each other. It then moves to Arlo thinks about how Lloyd became injured playing football made their mom afraid for them to play