Layered with humor, metaphor and karmic progression, Pileups takes the reader into author Robert E. Petras's journey as a football player from the sandlots of his youth through his days as a member of Marshall University's Young Thundering Herd and beyond. Petras details how seemingly small decisions at the time can ultimately result in adverse situations much later in life. Hop on Pileups and join Petras and friends on an emotional tour of the ups and downs of life as Petras proves that as if in a massive pileup, we are all in one way or another inextricably connected.