Friday Night Lights

Timing: Football season starts.
Drink: Bourbon & Coke
Entree: Stadium Nachos

Movie:
Texas continues to be a hotbed for recruiting the nation's top college football players and we see why this is the case in Friday Night Lights.  This film takes us inside the high stakes world of high school football where lives are decided by what was intended to be just a game but has evolved into something most teenagers are ill equipped to handle.

These small rural towns shut down and gather on each of fall's Friday nights to support their high school football teams.  The pressure culminates in a success that can lead players and their respective families to a life that would otherwise be unobtainable.  Failure, on the other hand, can determine a destiny consisting of a limited continued life within the economically depressed town of their childhood.

Ultimately we see the struggle of the players as they put themselves through this gauntlet of high school football in order to make it to the next gauntlet of college football.  Most seem to play because of their love and hate of the sport and some are forced to do so out of no choice of their own.

Mel's Rating: 77%
On a scale of 100.

Brett's Rating: ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
On a scale of 10.