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The History of Odessa Texas and the Permian Panthers in Friday Nights Lights a Book by Hg Bissinger THE HISTORY OF ODESSA TEXAS AND THE PERMIAN PANTHERS IN FRIDAY NIGHTS LIGHTS A BOOK BY HG BISSINGER Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream is a non-fiction book written by H. G. Bissinger. The book follows the story of the Permian High School Panthers football team from Odessa, Texas, as they made a run towards the Texas Bissinger moved his family to Odessa and spent the entire football. Jerrod McDougal blocks exceptionally well, and Chris Comer moves the ball exceptionally well. Furthermore, North Shore did not start seeing football success until the mid s. Ten years later, in , ESPN. McDougal, who loved football to death, lingered in the team locker room for a little longer than everyone else but eventually left to the locker room. Boobie is not a good student and doesn't have to worry about grades because he will most likely get a football scholarship to a major college. The teachers make less money than the coaches who are financially at the mercy of the boosters who seldom care about education. Chapter 3: Boobie This chapter focuses upon the black star fullback, James "Boobie" Miles, who is Permian's ticket to the state championship. Bissinger also discusses the life of Brian Chavez, the Permian tight end. The first was to determine whether a "home" or "neutral" site will be used, and the second to determine which team's site will be used. Brian Chavez went to Harvard but quit the football team after only one day because there was no bond. Permian is now down 14—9. High school football is used as a distraction for the once thriving community of Odessa which had gone into a slump when the second boom ended. He is the only senior player from the Panther football team to receive a Division I football scholarship , attending Texas Christian University. One of the athletic directors in the stadium booth said, "I think he's a sophomore", when Comer was a junior at the time. Winchell gets ready to pass to Robert Brown. In the movie, Gaines at first suggests San Antonio as a potential neutral site, which would have meant playing the game at Alamo Stadium , since the Alamodome did not open until Back behind Permian High School, looming over the sprawling practice fields, stands the monument to Mojo football. The event is held at a truck stop on the south side of Midland at am local time. The school and the city[ edit ] Permian was portrayed in the movie as a single large high school in a small, one-horse town in West Texas. Furthermore, Carter was portrayed in the movie as a stereotypical "inner city thug" team likely due to the shocking series of armed robberies committed by several players after the season ended ; Carter at the time was located in a middle-class African-American neighborhood and was not known for dirty play. While Ratliff Stadium has had artificial turf since its opening, in it had the original AstroTurf , not the modern FieldTurf surface seen on the stadium in the film. For the players, the sense of entitlement and the feeling that they could do whatever they wanted to reach an all-time high. The quaint downtown shown in the trailer for the movie was Manhattan, Kansas. Once the embargo ended, the boom was over. Mind you, stay close to your van. Meanwhile, due to demographic shifts and oddly drawn boundaries, Odessa High became populated with mainly poor whites and poor Hispanics—while a substantial majority of the city's relatively small black population ended up in the Permian attendance zone. His play is unspectacular but effective. Don, whose mother had been a Permian cheerleader while Charlie played football, moved from Blanchard, Oklahoma to Odessa in before his sophomore year. Brian Chavez — A very intelligent player. Mike's older brother, Joe Bill, took over that role but, in , Joe Bill had moved out. Gary Gaines , the head coach for Permian. This is not to say, however, that Permian didn't have its share of poor people from all major ethnic groups. Permian wins the game 35—7. Mike Winchell, the starting quarterback for the Panthers. The other and first high school in the city, Odessa High School mascot: the Bronchos , was never mentioned in the movie, despite the fact that they have played Permian every year, as the two schools have been in the same UIL district since Permian opened in and shared Ratliff Stadium with Permian. In the movie, Permian and Lee were joined not by Midland but by Abilene Cooper, and each team had two district losses..
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