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"the next year, Gary Gaines led Chris Comer and the Permain Panthers to and undefeated season and the Texas state Championship."

This is my final blog for the semester so I will try and make it a good one.

I will tell you what, this is NOT a movie about WINNING football. No sir, I can say that right here for certainty up in the front of my blog. What is it about? I will tell you right here, its about a community rallying around one thing, with determination and single mindedness. For this town it was football, maybe for your town it was basket ball or maybe curling. I come from South High, my class alone I think had 100 graduating, maybe more. So yea we had sports and I think we do well today. Now I am not a sports fan, but I will tell you what I grew up watching football with my family every Sunday so I understand why people rally around their team even if they loose. It is that sense of common purpose, you and all your friends and family are there to see your team win, and if they don't you know that they tried their best, they put all their heart into it.

I find it interesting they made the movie and the book I assume as well about the season these kids lost and not the one they won. So why that year and not the one they won? I have a theory. I think the author wanted to make the story about the intensity of the game and not about winning or loosing. For example about three times in the movie they would remind you the town would shut down for the game, now that is passion for the game! About Boobie Miles (I am not making his name up...) he was suppose to carry the 1988 team to victory but a knee injury took him out of the season. So rather than carrying the team on the field, he becomes a rallying point off the field. In a way he was a great disappointment not because he failed his team on the field, but his injury was a huge set back and a lot of people started questioning the coaches decision making ability on the field. I will tell you what, I wanted to see the team win! I wanted to see a team win against all odds and have a "feel good" experience, instead I got a movie about passion, intensity, and football at its best on the great North American plains. So what does sports fanaticism say about small towns on the plains. Well the community identifies with the team when it wins, winning is not asked, it is demanded, it is expected. That is how a small community makes it place on the map. that is how this movie relates to the class.

Have a good Christmas, David Suda.