Friday Night Lights
A Town, a Team, and a Dream. H.G. Bassinger [I.E. H.G. Bissinger]
by H. G. Bissinger
Recommended by Jeff Atwood and Brian Grazer
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Sports, Sports, and Nonfiction.
With a new afterword by the authorReturn once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessathe winningest highschool football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy ...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Sports, Sports, and Nonfiction.
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Brian Grazer
“"He lost the testicle but he did make All State." super late to this party, but the book Friday Night Lights is brutally honest documentary | About the fragility of what it’s like to grow up as a young boy – 15, 16, 17 years old.”
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