Friday Night Lights: A Town

Football has become a way of life for Americans. There is Friday night high school football, Saturday college football, and Sunday NFL. There are teams all over the country that fans devote themselves to one hundred percent, and in the small, deserted town of Odessa, the fans do just that. In H. G. Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights, football has become a necessity in life. The town comes together every Friday night and rallies for their team. Permian football is the town’s heart. Without football,…

of Adversity written by Drew Brees, Friday Night Lights written by Buzz Bissinger, and the last one was Through My Eyes: A Quarterback’s Journey written by Tim Tebow. I had not read the books by Drew Brees or Tim Tebow so I thought my better option was to go with Friday Night Lights because I felt like I knew more and I was inspired by it. I do plan on reading the books by Brees and Tebow which I believe are going to be very inspiring as well. I read Friday Night…

I have lived in the beautiful state of Mississippi since I was born. I know nothing but fields of produce, Friday night-lights and the kindness of a southern heart. One is lucky to have been raised here their entire life. The Mississippi air is a smell one cannot quite forget. Riding back roads in the late evening of summer is a distinct one. I can smell the crops mixed in with a fresh crisp breeze of summer. There is not as much pollution in Mississippi as most big cities so it is definitely…

novel, Friday Night Lights, tells the story of the 1988 Permian Panther football team and their families as they go about their lives in the scanty town of Odessa, Texas. Bissinger uses unprecedented techniques such as exposing his readers to several points of view, using a journalistic style, including strong diction and rhetorical terms, and setting the tone throughout the novel. These factors collaborate in order to allow the readers to understand Bissinger’s main purpose for writing Friday…

H.G. Bissinger is a very effective author. In his non-fiction novel Friday Night Lights, he is unbias between the sides of arguements and writes freely without the persuasion of others. The author describes the racism, explains the passion for football, and paints a picture of the historical background of the town well. Bissinger keeps an unbias stand-point throughout the book. As he meets with people and they explain their views on certain things he does his best to keep his own personl views…

Schumer’s “Football Town Nights” and The Onion: College Basketball Star Overcomes Rape try to educate the public about rape by the use of comedy. Amy Schumer targets rape in "Football Town Nights." This is a courageous sketch from the comedian's Comedy Central Series Inside Amy Schumer. A knockoff of Friday Night Lights, the sketch “Football Town Night” focuses on a high school football coach who puts a "no raping" policy into place on his team. Following the template of a Friday Night Lights…

Many people believe Konawaena High School is remarkable. At my school we have access to the stadium field with an all-weather track, the basketball gym, the baseball and softball field, and even a large pool. Konawaena is located in Kealakekua, Hi on the slopes of Hualalai mountain. We call this area “mauka”. Mauka is Hawaiian for the mountain side of the road in context of direction. Konawaena translates into “Middle Kona”. I feel like Konawaena is the heart of Kona. Since it is the center of…

the girl that the town of Lawton despises, Riley Young. Running home from the park with her baby girl, Bryony, Brady can’t help but stop to give them a ride. He’s astonished when he hears the little girl calls Riley “momma.” He also realizes that, a little over a year ago, she wasn’t lying when she claimed Gunner’s older brother, Rhett, raped innocent Riley Young. Nonetheless, the town of Lawton believed Rhett due to his powerful name and ran Riley along with her family out of town for…

The pop was heard throughout the room. I began to fall to the ground as the pain echoed through my body. It was unlike anything I had ever felt before. It felt as if one hundred rubber bands had snapped within my knee. I could tell by the look on their faces that my coaches and teammates knew something was wrong. I went into practice that afternoon, on a typical Wednesday, and as a typical teenager; but little did I know, I would leave practice facing a six month recovery and a scar I would…

with different views of how they come to be. This can be seen in both Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger and in Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy. Both of these books compare and contrast each other in ideas and principles when it comes to football at different levels. Bissinger and Dungy both examine how football is seen differently by people and how football leads to bigger impacts made in society throughout Friday Night Lights and Quiet Strength. In both respected books the coaches of the…