Friday Night Lights: Blog Post #2

1. Briefly update your blog followers on what you’ve been reading in your IRU book recently. This could focus on a few different passages or importance, or one major piece of the book.

2. We’ve been told that a picture is worth a thousand words. How about ten thousand words for this blog post, then? Find ten pictures that highlight important themes, characters, events or conflicts of the book thus far. Upload them to your blog with a brief – limit this to a sentence or so – explanation in the form of a caption. Try to avoid simply posting book covers, instead look for symbols that would go along with a point of importance in the book thus far. Try to limit your images to those dealing with events in the first 2/5 or so of the book.

Up to the 2/5 margin of the book "Friday Nights Lights", I wouldn't say that there is too much to breifly explain to you guys...

The town of Odessa is historically explained with all of its "booms and busts" but more-less focuses in on the busts part of it all and how this has overall made the town more dependent in living through the Permian Panther football team. Ratliff Stadium can actually hold 19,302 people, which is readily exceeded. The town determines on one of the star players, James "Boobie" Miles to lead them through their wins, especially the one with their rivals, "Midland Lee Rebels". However their mojo (<--team spirt) is shot down when Boobie faces an injury during a pre-season scrimmage which forces him to sit the bench and let the light shine in on Don Billingsly, great football player but like his father, Charlie Billingsly, a party-harder.

Picture Summary:

Odessa and Midland (Lee Rebels [Rivals]) location on a map of Texas.