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Eighteen-year-old twins Peyton and Pat Downey live just 40 minutes from the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville. Their family is all Tennessee all the time. If their first names, the first after the legendary quarterback and the second after the legendary women’s basketball coach, don’t give away their parents’ alma-mater then their parents’ matching Volunteers tattoos might.
The Downeys love Tennessee. The Downeys love the Volunteers. The Downeys love football.
Pat has been a star wide receiver since his first grade flag football. He is a heavily recruited All-American receiver. Only thing is, he doesn’t want to go to Tennessee but can’t get the courage to tell his dad.
Peyton would go to Tennessee in a heartbeat. He shares his dad’s Volunteer passion but has never gotten the chance to show his talent on the field. Before his first birthday, they learned that Peyton was deaf. He played football and was even quarterback on Pat’s first catch and touchdown, but has not really gotten a chance since. In middle school, the coaches only let him play defense. Same his freshman year in high school. Coaches thought a quarterback needed to be able to communicate. Change a play. Talk to teammates. Call an audible.
Peyton called an audible of his own and gave up playing. If he couldn’t play quarterback, then he didn’t want to play.
Now, senior season is about to start. Last year’s quarterback graduated, and after a suspension and a couple injuries, the team is left with only freshmen to lead the way for a team with State title aspirations . It looks like Pat’s senior season is not going to go very well.
There is one other option, though, if Pat and Peyton can convince Coach to call an audible of his own.
The Downeys love Tennessee. The Downeys love the Volunteers. The Downeys love football.
Pat has been a star wide receiver since his first grade flag football. He is a heavily recruited All-American receiver. Only thing is, he doesn’t want to go to Tennessee but can’t get the courage to tell his dad.
Peyton would go to Tennessee in a heartbeat. He shares his dad’s Volunteer passion but has never gotten the chance to show his talent on the field. Before his first birthday, they learned that Peyton was deaf. He played football and was even quarterback on Pat’s first catch and touchdown, but has not really gotten a chance since. In middle school, the coaches only let him play defense. Same his freshman year in high school. Coaches thought a quarterback needed to be able to communicate. Change a play. Talk to teammates. Call an audible.
Peyton called an audible of his own and gave up playing. If he couldn’t play quarterback, then he didn’t want to play.
Now, senior season is about to start. Last year’s quarterback graduated, and after a suspension and a couple injuries, the team is left with only freshmen to lead the way for a team with State title aspirations . It looks like Pat’s senior season is not going to go very well.
There is one other option, though, if Pat and Peyton can convince Coach to call an audible of his own.
202 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 27, 2025
About the author
Jason Stacy
20 books1 followerJason Stacy is an associate professor of United States history at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He is the author of Walt Whitman’s Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman’s Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840–1855 and editor of Leaves of Grass, 1860: the 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition. He lives in Edwardsville, Illinois.
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