&#39;Friday Night Lights&#39; throws out the typical sports-movie playbook
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It has to be the most overworked formula in the movies: the one about the underdog small-town team going the distance against impossible odds.
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In the aftermath of the fiasco that was the Pacers-Pistons game last Friday night, you would think that pro sports leagues would be looking to move fans farther away from the action.
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In order to wrap your head around director Peter Bergâs gridiron saga Friday Night Lights, you need to approach it with a little statistical analysis.
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Consistency isn&#39;t sexy. It&#39;s not a quarterback throwing bombs, or backs bursting into the secondary, linebackers in their wake.
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The highlight reel is usually reserved for Ray Allen , not Tony Allen . It was quite the opposite last night.
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DENVER (News 4) &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; is the story of high school football -- TEXAS high school football -- an entirely different world.
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Saturday night was all right to see Friday Night Lights for a couple of sophomore football players from Hammonton High School. Gary Kaye and Nick Goehringer couldn&#39;t see the opening of the trumpeted movie
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I&#39;ve had about all I can stand of the most overused football term since &quot;West Coast Offense.&quot; And that&#39;s &quot;fantasy sleeper.
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&quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; is set in the town of Odessa, Texas, located on the flat, windswept plains of the state. Odessa is a hard-scrabble oil industry hub best
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One third of this years&#39; NFL season is over, and already each division has a situation, a player or a change that has been a surprise.
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The new Bowl Championship Series formula is creating the same old confusion.
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Two of the league&#39;s most disappointing teams put on quite a show in prime time. And after all the wild plays and big offensive numbers Monday night, a phantom penalty, followed
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In the early â90s, the N.F.L wagered that North America and Europe would embrace a brand of football that was of lesser quality than the one the leagueâs 32 teams play in the United States. They were wrong.
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If you hadn&#39;t been following the NFL lately and tuned into yesterday&#39;s Monday night game, you may have thought you had stepped into a time warp.
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The message in âFriday Night Lightsâ doesn&#39;t just apply to the sport of football. And you don&#39;t need to love football or be able to tell the difference between a wide receiver and a running back to understand
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What? No movie crew? See, this is what happens when you win it all under the simple guise of just being the best team, absent the melodrama. You sweep the Rockies and neither Jimmy Fallon nor Drew Barrymore are anywhere in sight.
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To call &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; the best football movie ever made is not really that risky: While &quot;North Dallas Forty,&quot; &quot;Any Given Sunday&quot; and &quot;The Longest Yard&quot; have their champions, they are