Friday Night Lights Book Review

Friday Night Lights


H.G. Bissinger



Reviewed by Jake Porter




Friday Night Lights is about a town in Odessa, Texas that loves football. The footballl season is about to come up and everyone is getting ready for it. The whole town loves the football team and supporsts it in any way possible. The team faces some tough times though when their star player Boobie Miles gets a very bad injury. He was the best player in the whole city and maybe even the state. They based the whole seasson around him and when he went down they were devastated.

Once the season did start they has some tough games at the very beginning and lost some. The whole city expected them to go undefeated but when they lost some games they starting doubting Coach Gaines and his football ways. Then the Permian team found a new spark in second string running back Chris Comer. He started playing very well now and not acting scared on the field. He led the team to a very good season. Three teams in Permains class were tied with the same schedule and had to come down to a coin toss to see who would go to the playoffs.

When Permian and Coach Gaines won the coin toss, the whole town had faith again and was ready to see what would happen in the playoffs. The game before state, the biggest game of their lives they faced Dallas Carter, a bigger and better overall team than Permian. But no one cared abouot that they just wanted to win the game and go to state to achieve their dream. Once the game started they could tell it was going to be hard. Permian got up to a lead first and then lost it later on in the game. They ended up loosing the game and their season over.



Friday Night Lights ended up being a very good football book. It was the real way football is and wasnt fake like some boooks. I liked how all the players had their fun times, and their bad times like real players and teams do. The players in the book remind me of some of the players on our team and so it made it fun to read the book. I recommend reading it to anybody who likes football and good books.