All week long Walton kids and Norris kids had been going back and forth about the game on Facebook—all of it in good fun—as a way of hyping up the battle of the league’s two unbeatens. It was 14–13, Walton, at halftime, and so far the game had lived up to all the hype. Teddy had come out on fire, not even throwing his first incompletion until the Wildcats’ second drive. By the time that drive ended, he had thrown for one touchdown and run for another, and the Wildcats were ahead 14–0. It turned out, though, that the Norris Panthers had a pretty fancy quarterback of their own named Scotty Hanley. He looked too small to play the position as well as he did, or have the kind of arm that he did. But once his team got behind, he began to show you how much game he had. On the Wildcats’ sideline, Jack Callahan called him a “wizard.” “Great,” Teddy said. “So you’re telling me we’re up against Harry Potter?” As small as Scotty Hanley was—and he was the smallest player on either team—he wasn’t just playing big.
