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Miles was a key figure in Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, a 1990 book by H. G. Bissinger that followed the story of the 1988 Permian High Panthers football team as they made a run towards the Texas state championship. In 2002, Sports Illustrated named Friday Night Lights the fourth-greatest book ever written about sports.
The story of Permian High School's 1988 Permian Panthers team and its run towards the state championship was the subject of the best-selling book Friday Night Lights, published in 1990. A movie based on the book was made in 2004 and the NBC television network aired a TV series loosely based on the school and book.
Some sequences during the state playoffs showed highlights from high school football games in Texas. In one of those highlights, NFL Pro Bowl cornerback Aqib Talib can be seen. Ty Law played a wide receiver for Dallas Carter, the team Permian played in the film's state championship game. He wore jersey #2, his last name was Graf, and he caught ...
The Odessa American will be looking back at five different games from each decade. This one is a look back at the 1960s (including the 1959 contest). 1959- Odessa High 14, Permian 6 In the very ...
The main difference this time, though, was that the Permian football team used a strong fourth quarter to come out on top. The Panthers avenged last year's loss to the Odessa High Bronchos with a ...
Oct. 15—Permian's strong second half performance ended up making the difference in the Panthers' 50-26 win against crosstown rivals Odessa High last Friday at Ratliff Stadium. After building a ...
Permian High School and its football team, the Permian Panthers, had a substantial, rich history of winning in Texas' 4A and 5A divisions, [a] having won championships in 1965, 1972, 1980, and 1984. Bissinger moved his family to Odessa and spent the entire 1988 football season with the Permian Panther players, their families, their coaches, and ...
Oct. 7—Although Ector County ISD has had Mascot Media apps for its Odessa and Permian High School games for several years, this is the first year they've had a full TV production for the games ...