Story Of A High School Football Team In Friday Night Lights

In the movie Friday Night Lights, there is more to the story than the typical football movie. In this movie, there is a high school football team that is based out of Odessa, Texas who puts everything on the line in every game. This high school team has a very unhealthy worry and obsession over winning every game that they play in, no matter what the score is or what they must do to win. Every game they play the entire town knows that they will win because they do anything and everything they can to ensure that. This obsession not only lied with the team, but it also lied within the community. Every year it was an expectation that they would make playoffs and win the state championship. In the very beginning of the movie, one of the starting

While all this is going on with Boobie, it is shown that another starting player by the name of Mike Winchell is suffering through a hard time with his father dying. After the head coach, Gary Gaines, returned home after suffering from the loss there was a for sale sign in his front yard and he realized that the community no longer cared about all of the wins he had led the team through, but they were only focused on the one loss that had occurred. They always say that a team is the reflection of their coach, and that saying goes very well with this movie because after Boobie gets hurt the head coach is the only one in the community that believes in his team. Before they got back on their winning streak, Coach Gaines knew that his job and his life depended on leading this team to the playoffs and making sure that they got themselves together as a team. He steps up to the plate and makes the team rise back up to where they used to be at and get them back on their winning streak. Gary Gaines could have very easily let the team see that he felt defeated that they had lost such a main player, but instead he used that energy and flipped it to make the team see that he believed in them more than they ever