A.J. Williams
English 103 section 5
Ms Chavez
March 26, 2006
The High School Football Life
Football is all around us. You go from pee-wee flag football for the very young kids all the way up to the NFL or world football league as careers. In most of the population, not too many kids make it past their senior year of high school. The kids that don't make it past high school football savor every moment of their time on the field. There is nothing wrong with that, except if the people around the game take it overboard. In Friday Night Lights by Peter Berg, the town is obsessed with their high school team, the Permian-Odessa Panthers. Having been in football for over ten years, I know what the movie is talking about. It is good that the town can get into their football team, but with how much they push the players to be perfect, it makes the guys on the team's life that much more hectic. The town's folk make them grow up way to fast. Even though this movie on the......
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