Friday Night Lights
- Buzz on Friday Night Lights
- BY KEN BRODNAX
- Even the man who created “Friday Night Lights” never imagined the mileage he’d get out of that year he spent in Odessa two decades ago. But H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger, who has since collaborated with the likes of St. Louis... Full story
- Life after the lights
- BY LAUREN DRINKARD
- If Chris Comer is sure about anything, it’s that there is life after Permian High School.
“It’s all about family right now, working and making sure my kids have a good future,” Comer said.
Comer was the junior running back... Full story
- He was the man
- BY JOEL A. ERICKSON
- James “Boobie” Miles is a hard man to track down. Dozens of phone calls, Internet searches and conversations with a number of his former teammates and coaches didn’t produce a solid lead to the man immortalized in H.G.... Full story
- Jock, genius
- BY VERONICA SANDATE CRAKER
- In Odessa it’s safe to say the majority of teenagers only have one thing on their mind.
Getting out of West Texas.But that’s not the case for local attorney and salutatorian of the Permian class of 1989 Brian Chavez.“I don’t... Full story
- Teachers make mojo home
- BY ROY WAGGONER
- Time may march on, but many things are still the same at Permian. Many parents of today’s Permian students were kids themselves in 1989. Others teach there today alongside the few teachers who remain from that era.For many of those teachers,... Full story
- Top of the class
- BY LYXAN TOLEDANES
- Many graduates of the 1989 Permian High School class still live in Odessa. Others, however, are spread across the country and the globe. As a diamond mine owner, Brigitte Vandeventer-Potgieter stumbled... Full story
- Football bible?
- BY JOEL A. ERICKSON
- No matter the team, no matter the town, one football magazine is required reading every year for high school football coaches and fans all over the state of Texas.From Amarillo to Corpus Christi, from El Paso to Port Neches Groves, nearly every fan... Full story
- The book changed these stars
- BY WILLIE BANS
- Yes, Mike Winchell and Don Billingsley were important parts to the 1988 Permian football team — the quarterback and tailback of the squad that lost to Dallas Carter in the state semifinal playoff game. They have all the memories from... Full story
- A new look at FNL
- BY ROY WAGGONER
- Two thousand miles.That’s the distance 16-year-old Devon Albert-Stone traveled to visit Odessa, pulled by “Friday Night Lights” to make a documentary on the culture of Permian while comparing it to her own background growing up in... Full story
- Before, after FNL
- BY JOHN CORRALES
- In school, you learn about physical changes and how after an egg is cracked, there’s no way to put it back together so that it was the same as before it cracked. But even though the egg can’t look the same as before, it still has the... Full story
