Permian High School

John Grisham’s Bleachers captures the insight of American football in small town Messina. Every Friday night, Coach Eddie Rake and his Spartans storm the field preparing for battle. Anyone with a heartbeat attends the games. To the Spartans and their fans, the football field is a sanctuary and the bleachers are its pews. The Spartans are worshiped. They were given the special treatment and, “during the season, each football player could eat once per week at Renfrow’s at no charge” (Grisham 62).…

account of college football. He describes his journey as a University of Michigan Wolverine, starting from his high school scouting days and ending with his retirement in Alaska. Reid recounts the strain he and his fellow players put on their bodies, both on and off the field, and explains the constant pressure to fulfill the image of a popular, powerful football player at a sports-oriented school like Michigan. In “My Body, My Weapon, My Shame,” Reid compares the path of livestock as a…

In 1988 at Permian High School, racism, education, sexism, and life have major impacts on the team’s performance and the player’s futures. The town will do whatever it takes to make the most successful team, including hindering the players future. The fathers, whose lives are a drag and unsuccessful, live vicariously through their sons and push them harder than they have been pushed before. Racism causes a lot of drama on and off the football field. All the schools surrounding Permian have…

that sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. Sport activities are described as a ¨ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops¨. Lapham is absolutely right when he says this, games are not just games for a lot of spectators. High school sport games are something else, they do not exactly provide hope, but a false or temporary hope. People always know the game is going to have to end, but they still enjoy what they have left. In H.G. Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights, there…

In Odessa, Texas, only one thing matters. Not college, or politics, or work, but high school football. In the book Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, A Dream by H.G. Bissinger, the town of Odessa is placed under a microscope as the reader gets to experience the intersection of sport, race, and gender in a small Texas town. “Football stood at the very core of what the town was about, not on the outskirts, not on the periphery. It had nothing to do with entertainment and everything to do with…

became a member of my high school’s football team by building a strong relationship with my team mates, paying attention to detail, and going the extra mile throughout practice. I will also be able to carry out my explanation through the usage of ethos, logos and pathos appeals. Sam Houston High School is a public school under the Arlington Independent School District located in Arlington, Texas and home to approximately 3,600 students, the largest and most diverse school in the district. Out…

win the Superbowl. Fans of different races, religions, and ethnicities can all come together and unite over one commonality: sports. In most high schools, students hold the tradition to gather on Friday nights to watch their fellow classmates play a football game. On these nights, students can simply relax, cheer on their team, and enjoy the typical high school experience. Lewis Lapham addresses what fans and players are seemingly offered from activities and how athletics represent an industry…

According to the Institute of Education Sciences, there were a total of 1,420,900 crimes committed among high school students in 2013 alone; in addition, the violent crime rate at these schools was numbered at 62 percent. These staggering numbers show just how much illegal activity and violent crime that is being committed in high schools alone. Imagine the amount of innocent children being violated, hurt, or even killed. The people that are arrested for these crimes lose everything. They get…

is the true story of the Permian Panthers high school football team. The state of Texas is known for its size and even has its own sayings such as “Everything is bigger in Texas” and “Don’t mess with Texas. Well football is very well known in Texas and people really care about the sport. Every Friday night the small town of Odessa, Texas would be empty simply because everyone was at Ratliff Stadium watching their Permian Panthers. Ratliff Stadium is where a the Permian Panthers play their home…

pride all lay on the high school football team much more than the history of the town itself. In the light of this small close knit community the town supports all the little programs it has, alike other small towns. To start of with Odessa does not have much going on in town. Economically its glory days have passed. when the town was almost deemed a failure because it could not attract people infertile lands. In…