We Took Names: The Time of Vikings, Friends and Family

A fact-based, action-packed, coming-of-age football story. If you enjoyed such films as The Sandlot, Remember The Titans, and Friday Night Lights, you'll appreciate this vivid, emotion-filled odyssey.

Follow the true five-year journey of a football player and the bond he developed with his teammates and coaches. This inspiring story details the wild times they shared in their quest to be the best and how they became one of the top football teams in California and in the country. They were from a small Air Force school, and the bond they had as brothers made them unstoppable as teammates.

Football is a violent sport. The author, Jeff Rooney, learned that the hard way after being knocked unconscious, for three hours, from a hit during a game. He returned to the gridiron the next season, wearing a special helmet, to co-lead his team in their quest for the championship.

"How I went from an altar boy and Boy Scout to this personality on the football field I really didn’t know. I knew when I shelved my shoulder pads and helmet for the last time, 'Psycho' was going to be buried. There was no place for him outside the gridiron. He was created there and would stay there. As my feet left the grass for the last time he and I would part ways.

We were a little wild, crazy, and reckless. We were Vikings, name takers, and brothers and football needed us. We gave it everything."