Friday Night Light
A small texas town has high expectations for its top ranked football team.
Friday night light. Friday night lights was inspired by h g. Directed by peter berg. Buzz bissinger s non fiction book friday night lights. A town a team and a dream 1990 by h.
The book which explores the 1988 season of the permian panthers a high school football team in odessa texas was a factual work of documentary journalism the people featured were not renamed in the book. A town a team and a dream and the 2004 peter berg movie based on it friday night lights is an award winning drama series about the. Created by peter berg. Friday night lights is a 2004 american sports drama film co written and directed by peter berg the film follows the coach and players of a high school football team in the texas city of odessa which supported the team and was obsessed with them the book on which it is based friday night lights.
Bissinger s book friday night lights. A drama that follows the lives of the dillon panthers one of the nation s best high school football teams and their head coach eric taylor. Bissinger s book which profiled the economically depressed town of odessa texas and their heroic high school football team the permian high panthers. Bissinger followed the story of the 1988 permian high.
Expanding on the hit feature film friday night lights this poignant series centers on the small rural town of dillon texas where the coveted state football championship rings are held in the highest regard.