Explores the culture of high school football by focusing on the town of Odessa, Texas. Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true. With frankness and compassion, H. G. Bissinger unforgettably captures a season in the life of Odessa and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires - and sometimes shatters - the teenagers who were the Panther's uniforms.

"With a new afterword by the author"--Cover. Includes Reader's guide.