Friday Night Lights Analysis Friday Night Lights is a good look at how football envelops everyone's lives in the Texas city of Odessa. Although it uses football as its main theme, I don't think it's a book primarily about sport. The story is mainly about the people of a city who have nothing to look forward to except football. The story tells the life of some players and their parents. The author describes their background, characteristics and reactions to football and life in general in Odessa. The story seems to focus on football because football is the center of everyone's life. During the fall months, residents did nothing but live and breathe Permian football. The city was full of people like Ken Scates who went to Permian's first practice and "didn't miss any games, except that one time he had heart bypass surgery in Houston (41). The school would do anything to ensure that football The team had everything it needed in 1988 Permian spent $70,000 to rent planes for away games (146) the main sport in Texas small farm town in Iowa, a sport like wrestling could easily be used in place of football....... center of paper......ne family that seemed close was LV and Boobie LV had transformed Boobie in the player he was. Even when Boobie was injured, LV still believed in him and believed that he could go and play for a good college, aside from that relationship, it seemed like the players had more respect for each other than love La city ​​of Odessa had many problems, from poverty to racism. It would be hard for most people to survive in a place like that and the only reason anyone did was because of the football team. The team has provided hope to people who would normally simply be losers. The book did a good job of illustrating all aspects of the team, the city, and Texas in general. After reading this book, it becomes obvious that only in America could a story like this take place.