Friday Night Lights
2wice , i saw this movie 2wice (but another day wasted at the gym place, its more like a movie place for me.. sigh) they are great…. orhhh american football are great…MUST WATCH MUST WATCH
PLOT :
Bissinger shadowed the team for the entire 1988 season, which culminated in a loss in the semifinals against Carter High School from Dallas, Texas who went on to win the state championship. However, the book also deals with — or alludes to — a number of secondary political and social issues existing in Odessa, all of which share ties to the Permian football team. These include socioeconomic disparity; racism; segregation (and desegregation); and poverty.
The coach is constantly on the hot seat. After a loss, he comes back to see "For Sale" signs on his lawn. Also, he overuses his star player, James "Boobie" Miles, who gets seriously injured. When this happens, sports radios are flooded with calls for his resignation. His job depends on making the playoffs, which his team is in a three-way tie with two other teams. Under Texas rules for ties, the tiebreaker is a coin-toss. In an effort to prevent a riot, the location of the coin-toss is kept under wraps, and the Texas TV stations air it live at an unearthly hour. Permian does get a spot. They make it to the finals (in the movie, but actually only the semifinals), where they lose to a powerhouse Dallas high school team. The players are in tears as the game ends. The star fullback, whose father won a championship with Permian, is given his father’s ring. The movie ends with the coach removing the departing seniors from the depth chart on his wall. This symbolizes how they are no longer part of the town’s obsession with football and just regular citizens. The final scene is the high schoolers throwing the ball to a bunch of pee-wees playing pick-football, acknowledging the changing of the guard
