![]() ![]() I grew up in a very liberal part of the country. ![]() Now a major motion picture starring Billy Bob Thorton. ![]() With frankness and compassion, Bissinger chronicles one of the Panthers' dramatic seasons and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires-and sometimes shatters-the teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms. But every Friday night from September to December, when the Permian High School Panthers play football, this West Texas town becomes a place where dreams can come true. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil business.In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control in good times, its murder rate skyrockets. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odessa - the winningest high school football team in Texas history. ![]()
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