Who is Eddie Driscoll? What does he think of the football players?

Eddie Driscoll, the second ranked student at Permian and tremendously accomplished in many areas. Yet, although friends with a number of the guys on the team, he wishes that he’d been able to feel the excitement of being part of this brotherhood (“The football identity is so glorious…I always wondered what it would have been like if I had been a football player. I think it would be great to be in the limelight and be part of the team…”)

Eddie Driscoll, who ranked two in the senior class and because he was an intellectual, stood out like a sore thumb, often wonders what it would be like to sit in those two rows where the players sit during pep rallies. Eddie can't attain a semblance of adulation that football players do. This, of course, makes him bitter but envious.