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Article: 'Friday Night Lights': Can't live with football, can't live without it
- Article from:
- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- January 28, 2005
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A nearly new high school football coach expected to win the state
championship suddenly finds himself facing an impossible task when he
loses his star running back.
That's a pretty good hook for a piece of football fiction. It's an
even better hook for a fact-based film like "Friday Night Lights."
"Friday Night Lights" is about football but, more importantly,
it's about football players - and even more importantly, it's about
Texas, a state where not much matters besides football.
It opens with a wide-angle shot of gray clouds moving over a stark
landscape bisected by a long straight road - a sight familiar to
anyone who's spent time in west Texas. It climaxes at the Astrodome,
where Odessa ...