A review by shirleytupperfreeman
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by Buzz Bissinger

3.0

We recently started watching, through netflix, the Friday Night Light television series based on this book. I figured I should check out the original story. I didn't realize it was a non-fiction account of a small town in Texas and its ridiculous (in my opinion) emphasis on high school football. It made for a good story but the racism and corruption were very upsetting even if football did provide a 'way out' for young men living in a severely economically depressed area. The good, the bad and the ugly are all very visible here.