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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

But also, if you're a sicko like me, you can be like, ooh, I'm really into what this offense is doing, or I'm really into this onside kick play design. So I tried to do a little bit of both. And also, again, this is a trans coming-of-age story, so... It's also dealing with, you know, the horrors. So ball plus horrors is what we're working with here.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

um without without spoiling what happens at the end of the act one turn circumstances occur so that this high school football team um has to move a player who is who is not a quarterback to quarterback at which point passing just goes away and we are just running the ball baby we are we we are pounding the rock

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

um without without spoiling what happens at the end of the act one turn circumstances occur so that this high school football team um has to move a player who is who is not a quarterback to quarterback at which point passing just goes away and we are just running the ball baby we are we we are pounding the rock

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

um without without spoiling what happens at the end of the act one turn circumstances occur so that this high school football team um has to move a player who is who is not a quarterback to quarterback at which point passing just goes away and we are just running the ball baby we are we we are pounding the rock

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

It is. Kind of, sort of like loosely what I based this on was the year that the University of Kentucky football team, like all, like every single quarterback got hurt. And they were like, okay. Lin Bowden, you are our best wide receiver. We're just going to put you a quarterback and, you know, we're just going to see what happens.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

It is. Kind of, sort of like loosely what I based this on was the year that the University of Kentucky football team, like all, like every single quarterback got hurt. And they were like, okay. Lin Bowden, you are our best wide receiver. We're just going to put you a quarterback and, you know, we're just going to see what happens.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

It is. Kind of, sort of like loosely what I based this on was the year that the University of Kentucky football team, like all, like every single quarterback got hurt. And they were like, okay. Lin Bowden, you are our best wide receiver. We're just going to put you a quarterback and, you know, we're just going to see what happens.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

And that's like that was the fun of writing fictional football is that I can make my fictional football team do whatever I want. And I don't want to ever see conservative trickery. That is the forward pass. Get it out of here.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

And that's like that was the fun of writing fictional football is that I can make my fictional football team do whatever I want. And I don't want to ever see conservative trickery. That is the forward pass. Get it out of here.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

And that's like that was the fun of writing fictional football is that I can make my fictional football team do whatever I want. And I don't want to ever see conservative trickery. That is the forward pass. Get it out of here.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

Yep. And I'm a trans woman. It rules. Which, like, again, I tried not to do too much of it in this book. Like, part of the reason that I made my main character a kicker, which we will also talk about other reasons later. But part of the reason is that kicking is this sort of, like, own separate siloed off thing.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

Yep. And I'm a trans woman. It rules. Which, like, again, I tried not to do too much of it in this book. Like, part of the reason that I made my main character a kicker, which we will also talk about other reasons later. But part of the reason is that kicking is this sort of, like, own separate siloed off thing.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

Yep. And I'm a trans woman. It rules. Which, like, again, I tried not to do too much of it in this book. Like, part of the reason that I made my main character a kicker, which we will also talk about other reasons later. But part of the reason is that kicking is this sort of, like, own separate siloed off thing.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

So I really only have to, like, get the audience to understand kicking and what happens when Grace is on the field. I don't have to get into, like...

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

So I really only have to, like, get the audience to understand kicking and what happens when Grace is on the field. I don't have to get into, like...

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

So I really only have to, like, get the audience to understand kicking and what happens when Grace is on the field. I don't have to get into, like...

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

what a football team that like never passes the ball like is doing on a technical level we don't have to do all that i give you just enough that if you are a sicko you're like yeah baby what like this rules this is the sickest offense of all time um but also yeah but also like you know trying to uh trying to help the queer kiddos understand that like

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

what a football team that like never passes the ball like is doing on a technical level we don't have to do all that i give you just enough that if you are a sicko you're like yeah baby what like this rules this is the sickest offense of all time um but also yeah but also like you know trying to uh trying to help the queer kiddos understand that like

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

what a football team that like never passes the ball like is doing on a technical level we don't have to do all that i give you just enough that if you are a sicko you're like yeah baby what like this rules this is the sickest offense of all time um but also yeah but also like you know trying to uh trying to help the queer kiddos understand that like

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 182

Running the ball is the official football position of the working class, of the proletariat, you know.