Friday Night Lights : A Town, a Team and a Dream
Author: H.G. Bissinger
In the state of Texas American football is a religion. And nowhere is more fanatical about its football than the small town of Odessa. 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. In front of 20,000 people.In 1988 H.G. Bissinger spent a season in Odessa discovering just w….Read More
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