When Marcus moves to a new town he doesn?t know a soul. While practicing football for impending tryouts, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with an older man. Charlie is a charismatic prankster?and the best football player Marcus has ever seen. He can?t believe his good luck when he finds out that Charlie is actually Charlie Popovich, or?the King of Pop,? as he had been nicknamed during his career as an NFL linebacker. But that?s not all. There is a secret about Charlie that his family is desperate to hide.