Come join New York Ivy Leaguer, Richard Rubin, in this non-fiction account of his post-college experiences, when he accepts a help-wanted ad for a journalist in Greenwood, Mississippi. Follow his transcendental journey to the Delta Region of The Old South and watch as the fabric of Southern Hospitality begins to creep beneath his skin, despite his Jewish background. Catch the spirit of Southern Football Fever, as Rubin covers the local high school team and learns the intimate lives of the team members, many of which are poor black boys striving for glory.
While covering the team, Rubin is introduced to Handy Campbell, the team's star seventeen year old quarterback, a poor boy from the projects, who must deal with the pressures of "stardom" while exhibiting his unnatural talent on the field each Friday night. See Handy rise to glory and the offer of a college scholarship to a university that regularly sends its players to the NFL. Can Handy withstand the pressures and overcome the dark secrets of poverty?

Rubin leaves Greenwood, with a job promotion and returns to New York, but forever holds the lessons that he learned in The South. However, six years later, he reads that Handy Campbell didn't join the ranks of the NFL, and is charged with murder. Rubin returns and delivers another side of "Football Fever," when he chronicles the aspects of Handy Campbell's trial and the way that the town of Greenwood, Mississippi, reacts to the charges.

This book is a rare find, and allows a glimpse of the double-standards that still exist in The South. Regardless of all of the strides that we have made in Civil Rights, dark secrets still exist everywhere, and Rubin goes behind the scenes to expose them as a crafted journalist!