Night Lights By Peter Berg And Executively Produced By Brian Grazer

Sports are so glorified in some areas that schools will put athletics in front of academics. This is exactly what happened the book Friday Night Lights by H.G Bissinger. BIssinger explains that the town of Odessa houses the school Permian where everyone grows up on football. The school and the town give so much praise to the football team that some football players couldn 't care less about class and eventually the teachers don’t care how those players do in class. Mount Vernon is a place where the students are expected to do well in class first and everything else is second. The school has extracurriculars, but knows the school’s main job is to give students an education. Permian and Mount Vernon are opposites on the scale of sports and

Granger, Texas is a town that lives and breathes a passion for football. At Granger High School, there is a legacy dealt with the Cullen’s. Jake Cullen is forced to play football under the shadows of his older brother Wyatt and Troy Cullen. Wyatt won the state championship title for Granger High School and continued on to being a quarterback for the University of Texas. Troy became an NFL legend and began the legacy for his family and reputation. With such a successful family, Jake doesn’t feel so sure of being known as a Cullen. Instead, he’d like to be known as Jake Cullen, the great football star. He has time for other things too, like love. He has a crush on a cheerleader named Sara Rayburn. Throughout the story, his coach, Ray Jessup helps

They recruit guys from soccer, basketball, a farm and even other football teams to come and play for them. Lengyel has a new vision for Marshall, and calls them the “Young Thundering Herd.” Jack is the person to do things that most coaches wouldn’t do because that just in his personality. As a result he seeks out help from Bobby Bowden, the coach of the University of West Virginia. Jack asks him “if He and Dawson can see the coaches’ videos, plays, and handbooks and even if he had any tips for them.” Bowden laughs at first and asks “if Jack was serious…” He then see that the men are serious and allows them to view the tapes, rules, handbooks and anything else they wanted. He does this because Bowden understands that a team is in grief and confusion. When this happens Dawson’s disbelief that he had about the team and Jack trying to help changes and he becomes a little bit more optimistic about the future of Marshall and the town.

     The football teams love lived on and they stuck together for their first win. As a victory the quarterback who everyone called Sunshine tried to take a few black teammates to dinner. The owner refused service and that was the beginning of them falling apart all over again. The team calls their own meeting trying to get back together, although they are undefeated they weren’t playing well and they knew that wouldn’t work for long. On a major game referees were bribed to call penalties against the Titans, but Coach Yoast knew what they were doing and said he would go to the papers. Turns out they were trying to get Coach Yoast back at the head job and forget about Boon. After a major victory the team captain is involved in a major car wreck and was paralyzed from the waist down. Even though they lost a lot they went on and won the state title. The movie ends

Could the cruelest, most punishing soldier and a peaty chaplain’s assistant be at all alike? How are they different? When reading Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Pilgrim and Roland Weary are some of the first characters you will meet. One is a no-life and the other a die hard army man. The characters are different yet very similar. Billy and Roland are similar even if they don’t realize it.

The film wasn’t about that 13-0 record and winning a state championship, but the struggle that came with it and all the hardships they had to deal and get past. Racism, prejudice, compassion and love were all key aspects of this film as shown. The racism, prejudice of the team when they first met was severe and had been changed. The love and compassion came as the team grew to become one unit and love each other and be able to become something more powerful than they could be by themselves.

It's about a high football team that doesn’t have enough money to play because of budget cuts. Jamal and his friends are torn. But there is a president of a sporting-good company that donates 20,000 dollars worth of equipment. But there is a cut. The only he will do that is he becomes the head coach.

In brief, this film is about two schools in Alexandria Virginia that integrated in the early 1970s to form T.C. Williams High School. The white head coach of the Titans (Coach Bill Yoast) is replaced by an African American coach from North Carolina (Coach Herman Boone). Tensions arise when players of different races are forced together on the same football team. Many of these tensions are eased during the two-week training camp in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. When players returned to Alexandria the players found the city in turmoil due to the forced desegregation of the high school. As the season progresses the team's success caused the community to accept the changes. After the Titans' perfect season, the team and the city were closer than ever.

The story takes place in a small town in Iowa, Parkersburg, it was the summer of 2009 on June 24, 2009 Ed Thomas, the football coach at A-P was tragically killed by one of his former players, Mark Becker. Ed Thomas was a bevelled man not only in the town of Parkersburg but in many other towns also. One of my favorite quotes from Ed is that “ If all I have taught you is how to tackle and block I have failed you as a coach.” Ed believed that everyone was put on earth to do something good

The novel begins with preseason football in the heat of a Texas summer. The players and coaches practice over 4 hours a day in 100-degree weather. The media is affecting every player pushing for a state championship and college scouts at every practice. The boys who gave completely of themselves for their sport are unique personalities. From dedicated quarterback Mike Winchell to Harvard-bound Brian Chavez to the inscrutable Ivory Christian, the team was full of young men who were singular human beings, each one bringing something special and indefinable to their group. And that's just scratching the very surface.The book recounts the tragic story of Boobie Miles, team’s star running back who had been highly recruited by all of the major programs. He is expected to attend and earn a scholarship to a large state college. The community

Nate Brodie has a dream to meet Tom Brady and to win a million dollars. The only way he can accomplish this goal is with hard work and determination. So he starts by practicing everyday, all day he throws a football through a tire. He does this to work on his accuracy and so he knows he can do it. He also practices by being on the high school football team. There is so much on the line for him at the time. His parents are in financial trouble and his best friend is going to go blind if they don't get a surgery soon.

Friday night, under the fluorescent lights glistening off the white shinning helmets with a large black letter P on both sides. The smell of popcorn and hotdogs fill the air. The screams of twenty thousand fans echo throughout the arena. That 's more than the number of fans at some NBA games. Football is more than a game to the people of this town. It 's a way of life, it 's serves as a way out for many in the town, and it helps forget the horrible economic struggles the town faces. Football for this town created a false atmosphere, and became an addiction to this town. Football becoming an addiction has positives and many negatives. "Friday Night Lights," by H. G. Bissinger, tells the story of the small town of Odessa, Texas, and how football has become an addiction and taken over the lives of everyone in the town.

When Troy White proved his incredible "football genius" to the Atlanta Falcons, they brought him on the team. Now that Troy is helping, the Falcons are racking in victories. Troy loves his role behind the scenes and the thrill of having NFL star linebacker Seth Halloway, who's dating Troy's mom, to coach his team, the Duluth Tigers. Then Troy's perfect world comes crashing down. Reporter Brent Peele is out to obliterate the Falcons as much as he can, and that means going after Troy. The vicious media storm that comes down on the football genius threatens not only his job with the Falcons and the Tigers' run at a championship but his mother's job and Seth's as well. The reporter is making up fake reports that Seth is taking steroids, so Troy

The film, Knightriders, is a quirky Indie movie made in 1981 by George Romero. It is a modern retelling of the tale of King Arthur. Billy, “King William”, leads his group of motorcycle knights to various towns to perform their jousting routine. His vision is to lead the group under the traditional Camelot Arthurian rule. Along the way, a rival faction emerges from within the group to compete for the throne, with Morgan leading the mutinous faction. After multiple issues arise within the group such as a coercive police officer wrongfully arresting Billy and Whiteface, a promoter contacting the group, and a fight breaking out between members of the group, some members abandon the group while others go with the promoter. Eventually the group

The words “veni, vidi, vici,” or otherwise roughly translated as “I came, I saw, I conquered”, were spoken by the man who could be considered as ancient Rome’s most famous persona, Julius Caesar. These three words have become iconic and synonymous with what can readily be labeled as ancient Roman “philosophy”. It was an outlook that, in certain contexts, marginalized groups of people through slavery while glorifying the image of honour and warfare. The Forgotten Legion, written by Ben Kane, ideally follows the story of three men, two ex-gladiators and an Etruscan prophesier, as they travel to the far reaches of the Roman Republic’s hold on Asia in a legion of soldiers to face the dangers of an unknown enemy. The film Gladiator, directed by