The series is developed from H. G. Bissinger's book, by way of the 2004 film, and transposes its portrait of a Texas town obsessed with high school football onto the fictional town of Dillon.
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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
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H. G. Bissinger spent the 1988 season with the Permian High School Panthers in Odessa, Texas, and wrote about a town whose identity rested on its high school football team.