Nate is being Observed

For the next game, Nate had a lot of pressure because there were some newspapers and media in general who went there to see the game and take pictures or videos from Nate's game. During the whole match, Nate kept an eye on the game and the other one on the sideline where all the journalists and the media were. Also, he played another game in which his performance was really bad again. For the first time in his life, Coach Rivers sent him to the bench because of his bad game.

"But whatever pressure Nate was feeling last Saturday didn't amount to a pile of dirty socks compared with what he was feeling this Saturday against the Manorville Rams."
One of Nate's pressures was that his father had time to go and watch the game, something that didn't happened frequently.
"People from The Today Show were there to do a feature on him, and a reporter from Sports Illustrated was on hand to write a piece about the eighth-grade quarterback who was going to throw a ball for all that money on Thanksgiving night."
There was double-pressure for Nate and that desconcentrated him so that he had a bad game and got sent to the bench.

This match that Nate played was a really tough one for him since there was a lot of pressure due to the circumstances of the game. His father and media were going to watch his game and that meant a lot of pressure for Nate. In sports, there is always some kind of pressure, sometimes more and sometimes less, but there is always something important for what you are playing. Nate couldn't deal with so much pressure and he was sent to the bench by Coach Rivers since he wanted a better opportunity to win the match.