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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?
He returns to action, but later quits the team and has knee surgery.
Who is James "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?
Permian's loss to this team nearly ended its playoff hopes.
What is Midland Lee? (22-21 loss)
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 crucial decision determined whether Permian High School made the playoffs after the three-way tie.
What is a coin toss?
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?
Ivory Christian regains a new love for football when this happens.
What is he is recruited by Texas Christian University?
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)
This is the reason the Carter High football team nearly had to forfeit its season.
What is the use of an ineligible player?
He is known for drinking and fighting as well as fumbling to begin the season.
Who is Don Billingsley?
This town houses more of the white collar workers while this town houses more of the blue collar workers.
What is Midland and Odessa?
This squad ended Permian's hopes for a state championship with a loss in the state semifinals.
What is Carter High?
Bissinger finds that, in Odessa, ____ also serves as a metaphor for the way people live their lives and for what they value. Odessa is oil country, a tough patch of desert—not an easy place to raise a family or earn a steady living. The economy, toward the end of the 1980s, has been floundering.
What is football?
(T or F): The anonymous open letter discovered by players during Thanksgiving break praised their commitment and encouraged them to stay focused for the playoffs.
What is false?
He is the Carter High teacher who refused to pass Gary Edwards in his Algebra II class.
Who is Will Bates?