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Friday Night Lights is based on the true story of the 1988 Permian Panthers high school football team. The movie takes place in Odessa, Texas, a small plains community that revolved around football. The entire town follows the football team so closely that all the stores in town closed down during the games. It seems like most of the men in the town played on the team when they were in high school and went to state. The team is under enormous pressure to do well. The team is on their way to a perfect season when their star player, Boobie Miles, receives a career ending injury. Without him, the team suffers. However, they pull themselves together and manage to make it to the State Championship game. They fight tooth and nail in the championship but it just was not enough.
This was an interesting movie to watch. The high schoolers in the movie were under so much pressure from the entire community to do well at football that they did not have time for anything else. I've been told by friends from small towns that this is a good showing of how obsessed with sports some people are. It seems crazy to me that people get so worked up over a high school game.