Friday Night Lights is a perfect example of the way high school football is run in Texas. Texas high school football is considered, by almost everyone in Texas, as a way of life. Every town and city has their own high school football team that supposedly has to "protect their town and keep its pride" by winning against the other towns' football programs. This movie in particular is about a high caliber team in Odessa Texas, Odessa-Permian High School. Their football program has been very prestigious with many state championships previous to the 1988 season in which the movie took place. Talk even before the 1988 football season predicted Odessa-Permian High School to win the state championship. One member of the team that stood out with his identity in relation to myself was the defensive end, #90 Ivory Christian. He seemed to be the one member of the team where I...