1988 Odessa Permian vs Midland Lee Friday Night Lights

For those who have read the book Friday Night Lights or seen the movie, this is the actual game against Midland Lee. It also includes the introduction of the offense for those interested in seeing what the Permian Panthers looked like.

The book is not entirely true about many things, and the movie further distorts things. This game DID force a 3-way tie in district which required a coin toss to determine playoff contenders.

It took me over 6 years of searching to find a complete copy of this game, but someone in Odessa somehow found it.

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• odessa
• permian
• midland
• lee
• 1988
• Friday
• Night
• Lights
• Mike
• Winchell
• Chris
• comer
• ivory
• christian
• don
• billingsley
• football

[TheTexasboi27]

just finished watchin tha movie itz hot but the first team they played marshall iz my high school and they did not win but james miles did get hurt

[goten1214]

@TheTexasboi27 Believe it or not, in real life, Marshall DID beat Permian. The game was played in Marshall on a Saturday afternoon, not a Friday in Odessa. Permian flew to East Texas to play the game. Marshall won 13-12. They had a RB named Odell Beckham who was REALLY good. They ended up losing to Carter 22-18 in the playoffs. Anyway. I went to Longview. That's how I know this haha. I know all about East Texas football and the history.

[Tscribbles101]

BILLINGSLEY!!!!!PARTY AT TAYLOR'S BE THERE!!!!!BILLINGSLEY!!!!!!!

[marvinpull]

i saw the movie and then looked at stuff like this after and the movie changed alot of stuff around they shouldve made the movie just like it was

[lordbyron318]

always wondered why Lloyd Hill was never mentioned in the film. He was the best player on the team and the only one to play in the NFL (besides Case, who was only 3rd stringer at the time in 1988.)

[JoeZeon100]

Man, Odessa had a small team

[RobertGollnick]

wow, 180 lb tackle...

[Agslions]

@Jose083192 - Boobie was changed to #45 for the movie, as the director decided to use footage from the 2003 Permian team instead of trying to film each and every football scene (which would've been very costly). On the 2003 team, the fullback wore #45. In reality, Boobie wore #35, Comer did indeed wear #45.

[jjjjllllll11]

@Jose083192 miles was hurt almost his whole senior year

[Jose083192]

Why us comer 45? Wasn't that boobies number?

[ahlen011]

@MrSTFU80 agree, i mean, they say that the kids are small in the movie (even though their actors are big) but that they were gonna be this small, i didn't thought that.

But u gotta keep in mind that they didn't use anabolic in that time like the most of they do now (i mean who really think Tebow is completely clean?) 

[MrSTFU80]

damn those kids were small

[inutero96]

@reesnipee still would have kicked the shit out of you

[reesnipee]

these guys seem really small