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Article: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS FRIDAY NIGHT HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RETURNED TO BOSTON LAST MONTH, ALMOST HALF A CENTURY AFTER A POST-GAME BRAWL PUT AN END TO A TRADITION THAT DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE.
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2004
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There's a line in Friday Night Lights, H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger's
portrayal of the religion that is Texas high school football. It
comes from Hugh Hayes, a school superintendent, and from Bissinger
himself. "Public schools reflect a community's desires, feelings,
dreams," Hayes says in the book, then Bissinger adds in his own
words, "nowhere did those dreams unfold more powerfully than on the
football field."
Amen. The Boston College Eagles can have Saturday afternoons, and
the Patriots can have Sundays, but let's hold Friday nights for the
Tigers of the John D. O'Bryant School in Roxbury, the Knights of the
South Boston Education Complex, and all the other high schools around
Boston. Grab a ...