Permian High School (Odessa

Friday Night Lights- A Town- a Team- and a Dream

5 stars (Friday Night Lights) - Friday Night Lights is a true story about a football team in Odessa, Texas. Odessa is all about football, attracting at least 20,000 people a game every Friday to watch the Permian Panthers try to win another game against their opponents. It became a way of life. It was every boys dream to wear the black and white jerseys of the Permian team. Only a select few had the chance to play for them. The 1988 football team of the Panthers was on a quest to win the state championship and would do anything it took to make it there. Boobie Miles is one of those competitive players who wanted only to win. Although he did not get the chance because of him shattering his foot. Finally after months of training, they were at the final game to see who went to the state championship. Their opponent was Carter High of Dallas. They were a lot bigger than Permian but they both wanted the same thing; to win. Although Permian High played good game, they lost to the Carter High Cowboys. After the defeat, all of their names on the magnets that were used as locker tags just got thrown into a box to be buried and forgotten like all the prior losing teams that hadn't won in the High School of Permian. It was over. The Cowboys ended up winning the state title a week later. My favorite part in this novel is the games and practices that were described in the book. It made me think of what I did every day from 3:30 to 5:00. This book is different from some of the other books that I have read. Normally a book has a happy ending where everyone gets what they want or that everybody is happy. Not in this book. In this book you think that the football team is going to win but instead they lose and do not have their names in the Friday night lights. 5 stars (The Bright Lights) - Friday Night Lights is a superb chronicle of the 1988 football season for the Odessa-Permian High School Panthers in Odessa, Texas. Writer H.G. Bissinger moved his family from Philadelp...
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