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Book: Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
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  1. H.G. Bissinger _ Friday Night Lights: A Town, a

    Molly Ivins, a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald, described Odessa as an "armpit," which, as the Odessa American pointed out, was actually quite a few rungs up from its usual anatomical comparison with a rectum.
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  2. H.G. Bissinger _ Friday Night Lights: A Town, a

    In 1982, the thirty-seven murders that took place inside Ector County gave Odessa the distinction of having the highest murder rate in the country. Most agreed that was a pretty high number, but mention of gun control was as popular as a suggestion to change the Ten Commandments. A year later, Odessa made national news again when someone made the fateful mistake of accusing an escaped convict from Alabama named Leamon Ray Price of cheating in a high-stakes poker game. Price, apparently insulted by such a charge, went to the bathroom and then came out shooting with his thirty-eight. He barricaded himself behind a bookcase while the players he was trying to kill hid under the poker table. By the time Odessa police detective Jerry Smith got there the place looked like something out of the Wild West, an old-fashioned shoot-out at the La Casita apartment complex with poker chips and cards and bullet holes all over the dining room. Two men were dead and two wounded when Price made his escape. His fatal error came when he tried to break into a house across the street. The startled owner, hearing the commotion, did what he thought was only appropriate: he took out his gun and shot Price dead. It was incidents such as these that gave Odessa its legacy.
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  3. H.G. Bissinger _ Friday Night Lights: A Town, a

    Nothing about living in Odessa was easy. Finding a scrubby tree that could barely serve as a Christmas tree took two days. Even dealings with cattle rustlers and horse thieves had to be compromised; they were shot instead of hanged because there weren't any trees tall enough from which to let them swing.
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  4. H.G. Bissinger _ Friday Night Lights: A Town, a

    Odessa eked out a living from the livestock trade, all dreams of Utopia gone forever when the town's first sheriff, Elias Dawson, decided that the ban on alcohol constituted cruel and unusual punishment and became the proprietor, along with his brother, of the town's first saloon.
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  5. H.G. Bissinger _ Friday Night Lights: A Town, a

    They knew their economic livelihoods were completely at the mercy of OPEC and that it was all but impossible to have much say in the matter when the average American well produced 13 barrels of oil a day while the average one in Saudi Arabia produced 6,881 barrels a day and the average one in Iran 27,233 barrels.
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  6. H.G. Bissinger _ Friday Night Lights: A Town, a

    under the right circumstances, the demon wins the heart of the most steadfast soul, and the nemesis always becomes a lover. Permian
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    And because she was intelligent {she graduated from Permian in 1986 and went on to become an honors English major at Swarthmore College}, she also felt ostracized.
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  8. H.G. Bissinger _ Friday Night Lights: A Town, a

    On the SAT exam, boys who took the test during 1988–89 at Permian had a combined average score of 915 {433 verbal, 482 mathematical}, 19 points below the national average for boys. Girls had a combined score of 840 {404 verbal, 436 mathematical}, 75 points below their male counterparts at Permian and 35 points below the national average for girls. Of the 132 girls who took the test during the 1988–89 school year, there wasn't one who got above a 650 in either the math or verbal portions of the exam.
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    how could they be expected to accept the harsh reality of studies showing that of the thirty million children taking part in youth sports in the United States, only about two hundred would go on to become professionals in any given year?
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  10. H.G. Bissinger _ Friday Night Lights: A Town, a

    Will Bates was drummed out of Carter and reassigned to teach industrial arts in a middle school. He was given an unsatisfactory evaluation rating, placed on probation for a year, and had his salary frozen. And, of course, he was forbidden to teach math to prevent further threats to the sanctity of football.
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  11. H.G. Bissinger _ Friday Night Lights: A Town, a

    I just felt something pulling at me, nagging at me, a soft voice telling me to do it, to see for myself what was out there and make the journey before self-satisfaction crept in for good.
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  12. H.G. Bissinger _ Friday Night Lights: A Town, a

    He lost the testicle but he did make All-State.
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