![]() ![]() He returned with a compassionate but hard-eyed story of a town riven by money, race and class, where a high school can spend more on medical supplies for its athletic program than on its English department.įriday Night Lights is one of the best books about sport ever written. He lived with the students, coaches and townspeople who dedicate their lives to their team, sharing their joys and triumphs, their pains, injuries and bitter disappointments. Bissinger spent a season in Odessa discovering just what makes a town pin its hopes on eleven boys on a football field. There, every Friday night from September to November, a bunch of seventeen-year-old kids play their hearts out for the honour of their high school. ![]() ![]() And nowhere is more fanatical about its football than the small town of Odessa. In the state of Texas American football is a religion. ![]()
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