This novel is a realistic and journalistic report on the year Buzz Bissinger spent in Odessa, Texas and followed the Permian High School Panthers through the 1988 football season. He focuses on six of their players; Boobie Miles, Jerrod Mcdougal, Mike Winchell, Brian Chavez, Ivory Christian and Don Billingsley. Bissinger follows their agonies and triumphs in which they experience as well as exposing the truth about life in a town that is not just football crazy, but also racist economically challenged and stricken with the plague of alcoholism because of the nature of the oil business and the life conditions in the area in which they live. We see these people at their best and their worst and perhaps come away with the feeling that this isn’t just Odessa, Texas, but America and how the people of America live their everyday lives and get through the struggles of poverty and economic depression.
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