Summary Of The Book 'The Underdogs' By Will Tyler

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Everybody loves football, well maybe not everyone. But in your book The Underdogs Will Tyler lives and breathes football, he not only loves football, he is also amazing at it, he is the fastest and best player on his team. Your book really made me realize that not Everyone is as fortunate as me. In the book, the town that Will lives in is so poor that they have to shut down the football program, they also don't have enough players to field a team. Will really needs to play football so he turns to the last resort, the option that seems to be impossible. He writes a letter to New balance, asking them to sponsor his team, after a few days they wrote back saying that they would.
I thought about what I would do to in his situation, I realized

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