Friday Night Lights Essay

The show Friday Night Lights gives viewers an inside look into the lives of high school football players of a small town in Texas. The show is astonishing on many levels, from it's unique camera styles to the complex characters. Many people usually dismiss athletes as dull characters and some think of sports as something pointless or shallow. The show disproves these thoughts by giving viewers a perspective into the lives of the players, coaches, and fans of the Dillon Panthers football team. This

Within sports, pressure is always there; you have to learn to deal with it. H. G. Bissinger’s book, Friday Night Lights, hones in on the football team the Permian Panthers of Odessa. Through this focus on the team, one can see how football is an integral part of the town thriving, maintaining its hopes and dreams. Despite the racial and social divide within the community, those Friday night games become a place where dreams may be made possible. In this way, sports, specifically football, not only

“At times Odessa had the feel of lingering sadness that many isolated places have, a sense of the world orbiting around it at dizzying speed while it stood stuck in time...300 miles from the rest of the world” (33). Odessans don’t mind the isolation because they have high school football to wrap their lives around. In 1988, H.G. Bissinger moved to Odessa,Texas and had the up close and personal opportunity to study a small southern town and see how high school football affected the lives of its residents

Friday Night Lights      Is High School football a sport, or is it more than that to some people? Recent newspaper headlines include such items as coaches abusing student athletes; fathers of athletes murdering coaches, and mother’s disabilitating cheerleading candidates to assure their daughters make the cheerleading team. In Odessa, Texas high school football is a major contributor to the society of a small town in Texas society. Every Friday night, 50,000 people fill the stadium to see high

Brant Norlander 2/20/11 Sociology of Sports Prof. Delany Friday Night Lights Sustaining the ambitions of not only themselves but the alumni and town of Odessa, Texas is a lot to ask from a young adult. That’s exactly what Permian football provides to the people of Odessa, where the post economic boom of the oil business has left the town in a racially tense, economic crisis. The lights on Permian High School’s football field are the only sanctuary for the west Texas town. Socially

Parenting is very important to children, and it directly or indirectly affects all aspects of a child's life, from school and behavior to social relationships and sports. The non-fiction book, Friday Night Lights, by H. G. Bissinger takes place in Odessa, Texas in 1988 and focuses on the Permian Panther high-school football team. Football acts as a “driving force” for many high-school and upper level athletes, and often keeps the players striving to do better on the field, and in life. The support

The television series Friday Night Lights gave a glimpse to the rest of the world what Texas high school football is made of. In the series, the entire town of Dillon, Texas is obsessed with the football team and they do everything to support the boys; the players, cheerleaders, rally girls, coaches, and even managers are glorified in the small West Texas town. They feel like celebrities and are treated like it, but the stardom does not last forever. The song Devil Town was written for this series

In the famous book Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger he details a story of a place called Odessa texas and its extreme love for football. Throughout the book he details the 1988 season of the Permian High School panthers football season and the events it brings about. However, although football is a great pastime it kills kids lives in Odessa Texas leaving them confused and unprepared by too much community involvement, unrealistic expectations, and excessive dreams. In high school we try to live

Western Pennsylvania Friday Night Lights A Fond Farewell I watched my husband, Mike, take the field during the Freeport High School Football alumni night as part of the farewell season for Swartz Field. The school district for the tiny town along the Allegheny River recently voted to construct a new facility since the renovation of the 93-year-old stadium would be too costly. This is not my hometown mind you. But on this Friday night, I felt a sincere sense of loss. Maybe not as deep and personal

Due: March 31, 2015 Friday Night Lights Book Essay Racism: A Recurring Theme in Friday Night Lights The surprisingly non-fiction novel, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, was written by H. G. Bissinger in 1990. The story follows the Permian High School Panthers football team of 1998. The setting takes place in the town of Odessa, Texas. Bissinger describes this town as, “the setting for this book, but it could be anyplace in this vast land where, on a Friday night, a set of spindly