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I really enjoyed this book because it was easy for me to relate to it. A boy in high school attempting to win a starting spot on his school's football team is really entertaining. The fact that Marcus was trying to take the spot of the star player on the team, which was the plot of the story, really made me want to keep reading this book.

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As soon as I stated reading this book, I realized that it would be interesting. It deals with a teenage boy who is trying to win the starting quarterback position on his school's football team. Marcus eventually meets a man in the park who is an ex-professional  football player who teaches him the game. Later on in the story you find out that the man who is helping Marcus, the main character of the story, is really the father of his number one rival, Troy. Troy is the starting quarterback of the school's football team, and Marcus is trying to overtake his spot.

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I enjoyed the book POP because it was about a football story. The book had a good plot and a lot of action was in the book. Marcus and Troy made this a very good book.  Troy had some problems and now I understand why he didn't want to talk about some things.

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I think that in real life, the Popovich family should have told people about Charlie's condition. They could have made a charity to make the future better and have the NFL protect against concousions. Telling the public can only help, not hurt.

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I think that Troy should have supported Marcus. The team is a familly that needs everyone to succeed. If someone is not wanted to succeed, they never will. If nobody competed, everyone would cooperate and succeed.

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I'm not sure whether or not Gordan Korman ever played high school football or not, but in reality no dedicated starting varsity football player would ever miss a game to help a grown man he only knew for a few months.  Especially since the game was so important to the team, if it were me I wouldn't have missed it if the moon was about to crash into the Earth.  So Charlies few moments of happiness at the hall of fame ceremony shouldn't have been Marcus' priority.

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I found it very interesting that Marcus didn't realize that Charlie had something wrong with him before he did, I found it pretty obvious something was wrong with Charlie.  At the same time i think its odd that Marcus was so easily able to figure out that Charlie thought Marcus was James McTavish.  I would never see Mac from McTavish that easily.