My reviews always contain spoilers, I write them so I can remember the story.
Gage (SpreadOffense) and Rory (AllaboutTheStats) meet while online gaming. The Nighthawks are putting out a new multi player online football video game and Rory is a beta tester. Gage is the running back for the team and is playing the game too, the players were told to keep their identity secret so Rory does not know who SpreadOffense really is but she has started having feelings for him. The have been playing a while and have become online friends and have even flirted a little. They have cute nicknames for each other, he calls her Nerd, she calls him Geek. Gage who has not been interested in dating or a woman for a long time starts to have feelings for Rory, which causes conflict in him when she sees a beautiful woman at the stadium.
Rory is a college student who is brilliant with statistics. She has written a data visualization program for the her class project for the college’s baseball team. The Nighthawks ask her to modify it for football and offer her an internship on their stats team. While touring her new work place she is spotted by some rookie players on the field, Gage hears them commenting on her and takes a look, he is immediately attracted to her and feels guilty because of his feeling for his little gamer. When he meets her face to face he finds her even more stunning and he finds himself physically becoming aroused by her presence. When they are introduced they hears each others voices and realize they know each other. Gage does not waste any time and they have dinner at her place. Things get a little heated but Gage slows it down telling her it’s not only about sex, he’s in it for the long haul with her.
Rory gets to accompany the team for their first away game after she is going to visit her parents before retuning the New York. Gage works it so they can travel together to her parents and then charters a plane to get them home. Meeting the parents goes well, after her brothers and dad make sure he understands that if he hurts her…he tells them he will never hurt her. The plane ride home is very steamy, he gives her oral and then they join the mile high club. She’s a virgin, he’s been celibate a long time. When they get home he moves her in with him.
Things are going great for them until Rory’s boss sees them at the stadium together, he’s worried about their relationship and calls a meeting with Rory. She tells Gage about her bosses cold behavior after he saw them and he lets his coach know and the coach lets the owner, Lennox know. They all show up at the meeting and let Rory’s boss know that there is no problem that the two are together. Gage says that’s good because he loves football but Rory is more important than the game to him. They exchange I love yous and he later proposes.
Epilogues with them married and him buying the perfect house to raise a family, years later with Gage retiring for football, they have a daughter and a son on the way.