&#39;Friday Night Lights&#39; conveys grit of school sports
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A stranger to Odessa, Texas, might think every young man in the small town is a war hero. The 17 year olds there - most with buzz cuts, all of them clean-shaven - are hailed by the local townsfolk wherever they go.
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It was not the way Brooks wanted to open its Independent School League football season.
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It&#39;s just a movie, and not only that, it&#39;s a movie based on a nonfiction book about high school football, &quot;Friday Night Lights,&quot; which has become a classic indictment of our sports culture and obsession with winning.
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His teammates charged onto the Lambeau Field grass like high school kids who&#39;d just captured a state championship, basking in the glory of Ryan Longwell&#39;s game-ending 33-yard field goal.
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&quot;It ain&#39;t cheatin&#39; if you don&#39;t get caught,&quot; used to be the catch phrase in Division I sports, often accompanied by an oleaginous wink and grin.
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Once upon a time, before the Internet, the Bowl Championship Series and the zone blitz, Navy&#39;s football team routinely beat Notre Dame.
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&quot;Friday Night Lights,&quot; directed by Peter Berg (&quot;The Rundown&quot; and &quot;Very Bad Things&quot;), is packed with intense moments, riveting scenes, and talented actors to back them up.
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Billy Bob Thornton stars as Coach Gary Gaines in the football movie, &quot;Friday Night Lights,&quot; based on the book by HG Bissinger and inspired by the 1988 football season of the Permian Panthers in Odessa, Texas.
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&quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; is one of the best books I&#39;ve read about American sports - in large part because it&#39;s about much more than sports.
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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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Hype from the media, fans, players and coaches can make a college football game seem like a life-or-death situation. Not at the service academies.
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ODESSA Friday Night Lights, students at Permian High School walk the corridors wearing Friday Night Lights T-shirts. Friday Night Lights memorabilia flies off the shelves at the Permian gift shop, the Panthers Den.
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Although its football factory was designed to manufacture students and not necessarily victories, St. Anthony High School has a record of 6-1 heading into their final game Monday.
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Overshadowed by college and even high school teams, the city's Super Bowl-bound pro football team grabs the limelight.
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But it&#39;s on the high school level where passion for football turns into obsession. No wonder. It&#39;s the most populist version of the sport, where men can live the dream and make memories that last far beyond their ability to play.
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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 known for one thing: a championship high school football team, the Permian Panthers.
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There was some penalty-ridden football played at Lawrence Memorial Stadium last night, and the winner, St. John's Prep, was triumphant in spite of some untimely violations.