Permian

The town comes together every Friday night and rallies for their team. Permian football is the town’s heart. Without football, there would be nothing to Odessa. Although the fans have such a strong camaraderie and spirit for their team, the devotion and obsession is starting to get out of hand. The fans are starting to worship the team and give special privileges to the athletes, resulting in the…

structure, the educational system and community stability. The author often references the importance that the community of Odessa puts on high school football. All the stresses of the depressed oil industry economy are placed on the shoulders of the Permian football team,…

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…

In American Society, sports are a very important pastime for many people. Many spend their free time watching a basketball game, playing baseball with friends, or even betting on a team to 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,…

people felt about themselves.” (333) For me, this quote sums up what life in Odessa really is. The worth of the people in Odessa are put completely and entirely on the high school football team. On Friday Night’s between August and December, the Permian High School Panthers fight for everything they have, both on and off the field. African-American, Hispanic, and Caucasian males…

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…

In this book H.G. Bissinger tells the story of Odessa, a football obsessed Texas town, all the way back to its conception. In the book not only do we get a great picture of what the people of Odessa, and more specifically Permian High School are like, Bissinger does a great job of explaining the football obsession that plagues the town and the economic troubles and racial and political blunders that play into this town’s unhealthy lifestyle. This implied, and not straight to the point,…

H.G. Bissinger, author of the 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…

Why did Ivory have a love/hate relationship with football? Ivory Christian is from Odessa, TX; he plays for the Permian Panthers. Ivory weighed 195 pounds and ran a 4.7 in the forty even though that is the perfect size for a football player, as a sixteen -year- old he still loved the game he tried so much to hate. The only reason he keeps playing football is to make his dad proud. He told his dad Ivory senior that he might not play ball in college even if he got offers. Ivory has…

Every town across america is prideful for some aspect of their community, some more than others. Big Cities like New York city, Chicago and Boston have a never ending list of community interest and pride in many different matters from city infrastructures to education and even culture diversities. In contrast to all of this Oddessa a small town in texas that only has one particular interest and that is football. The town’s and its resident’s pride all lay on the high school football team much…