Boobie was being heavily recruited by major college football programs such as Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas A&M and USC and had professional football aspirations before suffering a knee injury in the preseason. This season would be the season for him to shine and lead the team to a Texas state championship. The previous season he had rushed for 1,385 yards and showed flashes of brilliance. James "Boobie" Miles – Star fullback for Odessa high heading into the 1988 season.Bissinger moved his family to Odessa and spent the entire 1988 football season with the Permian Panther players, their families, their coaches, and even many of the townspeople in an effort to understand the town and its football-mad culture. Permian High School and its football team, the Permian Panthers, had a substantial, rich history of winning in Texas' 4A and 5A division, having won championships in 1965, 1972, 1980, and 1984. Bissinger returned to The Inquirer briefly, received a Pulitzer Prize, and then took off in search of a community for which high school football was paramount. It was while he was at Harvard that the idea to write a book focused upon the role high school football plays within American society, in particular rural society, took hold. It was later adapted for television and film.īissinger was a journalist for The Philadelphia Inquirer when he was selected as a Harvard Nieman Fellow. While originally intended to be a Hoosiers-type chronicle of high school sports holding together a small town, the book ended up being critical of life in the town of Odessa. The book follows the story of the 1988 Permian High School Panthers football team from Odessa, Texas, as they made a run towards the Texas state championship. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream is a 1990 non-fiction book written by H.
0 kommentar(er)
