Characters
This running back was considered the star of Permian before suffering a career-threatening injury.
Who is Boobie Miles?
This Texas town is the main setting of Friday Night Lights.
What is Odessa?
This high school team is the focus of Friday Night Lights.
Who are the Permian Panthers?
This theme highlights the extreme expectations placed on teenage athletes.
What is pressure-packed football?
"I won’t be able to play college football, man . . . It’s real important. It’s all I ever wanted to do. I want to make it in the pros . . . ."
Who is Boobie Miles?
This quiet and serious quarterback struggles with confidence despite being a key player.
Who is Mike Winchell?
In the 1980s, these were desegragated in Odessa, Texas.
What are its schools?
Permian's first loss of the season came against this TEAM, led by Odell Beckham, Sr.?
What is Marshall?
This theme explores stereotypes regarding different ethnic groups in the book.
What are racial divisions?
Who is this quote regarding: "Pastor Hanson welcomed (his) conversion. He knew that (he) was an influential kid whose actions made a tremendous impression on his peers. But there was something worrisome about it, and he didn’t want (him) moving from one world of isolation into another where the only difference was the level of standards.
Who is Ivory Christian?
This defensive player is known for his faith and sometimes doubts his love for football.
Who is Ivory Christian?
The industry that supports the town.
What is the oil industry?
The team's goal for each season.
What is winning a state championship?
The town’s obsession with football comes at the cost of this important part of the players' lives.
What is education?
“In 1987, Money magazine ranked it as the fifth worst city to live in the country out of three hundred” (Bissinger 31).
What is Odessa, Texas?
This player is different from his teammates because he excels academically and plans to attend Harvard.
Who is Brian Chavez?
The Odessa area was originally marketed by real-estate hucksters from THIS STATE in the 1880s, as a place easterners could move to—one with good soil and ample opportunity for riches.
What is Zanesville, Ohio?
After Boobie Miles' injury, this running back takes on a bigger role in the offense.
Who is Chris Comer?
This theme deals with winning at all costs, and asks the following questions: What happens if you lose? What happens if you don’t earn a D-I scholarship?
What is purpose in one's life?
The uncle of Boobie Miles goes by these initials.
Who is LV?
This man is the head coach of the Permian Panthers and is constantly judged based on his team's performance.
Who is Gary Gaines?
The town's obsession with football reflects deeper struggles related to this economic issue.
What is poverty/unemployment?
In Odessa, high school football players are treated like this type of public figure.
What are celebrities?
This theme deals with the economy based largely on oil production and related industries, which is unstable.
What is boom or bust?
Permian or Odessa won the rivalry game in Chapter 8. (Correct score doubles to points awarded)
What is Permian? (35-7)