The Last Season
A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime of College Football

Fathers, sons, and sports are enduring themes of American literature. Here, in this fresh and moving account, a son returns to his native Mississippi to spend a special autumn with his ninty-five-year-old dad, sharing the unique joys, disappointments, and life lessons of Saturdays with their beloved Ole Miss Rebels. In the fall of 2012, after working on a presidential campaign that suffered a devastating loss, Stuart Stevens realized that he and his ninety-five-year-old father had spent little time together for decades. His solution: a season of attending Ole Miss football games together, as theyd done when college football provided a way for his father to guide him through childhoodand to make sense of the troubled South of the time. Poignant, full of heart, irreverent, and often hilarious, The Last Season is a powerful story of parents and children and the importance of taking a backward glance together while you still can.