scholarly journals “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose”: Friday Night Lights and Victorian Fictions of Provincial Life

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy M. King
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Television Series ◽  
High School Football ◽  
Class Mobility ◽  
Football Team ◽  
Night Lights ◽  
Friday Night ◽  
The U.S

Friday Night Lights, the 2006-2011 television series about a Texas high school football team, owes a debt to readers of Victorian fictions of everyday life and provincial fiction. Habituated to the quotidian, readers of Victorian fictions of provincial life are arguably the best equipped for understanding the critically-acclaimed television series, for in it, like the fiction that precedes it, hardly anything of moment happens. Plot and telos are hardly the point; the series locates its energies in the stuff of everyday life rather than in the logic of suspense. Recent work on the provincial novel helps us understand the politics of FNL in a way that goes beyond its own explicit themes of race, class mobility, and education. That both the Democratic and Republican candidates for the U.S. presidency in 2012 used the fictional team’s mantra—“Clear Eyes, Full Heart, Can’t Lose”—suggests the extent to which the ideas of the show tapped into a politics about nation. Paradoxically, the show’s deliberately provincial scope allowed it symbolically to unify the nation.

Football Town under Friday Night Lights

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Oriard
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Local Community ◽  
High School Football ◽  
National Media ◽  
History Of ◽  
Popular Magazines ◽  
Night Lights ◽  
Friday Night

This chapter traces the history of two competing views about the role of high school football in American communities: the “Football Town” and the “Friday Night Lights syndrome.” “Friday Night Lights” was named after H. G. Bissinger's 1990 book Friday Night Lights, a journalistic account of football at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas. “Football Town” originated from a series of portraits in popular magazines in the 1940s and 1950s. The chapter first provides a background on interscholastic football before discussing how the high school football game's place in the local community began to take on larger meanings when the national media began paying attention to it in the late 1930s.

Applications: Digraphs, Matrices, and Football-Team Ratings

1987 ◽  
Vol 80 (8) ◽  
pp. 660-681
Author(s):  
Robert M. Dieffenbach
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Rating System ◽  
High School Football ◽  
Football Team

In Ohio a statewide rating system known as the Harbin Football-Team Rating System determines the high school football teams that are eligible to compete in postseason playoffs. Each team earns points for games it wins and for games that a defeated opponent wins. The teams with the most points “go to state.”

scholarly journals Comet : a photographic installation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Severin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Major Research ◽  
High School Football ◽  
Football Team ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Church

This major research paper is written to accompany the photographic installation COMET. The project examines the town of Raymond, Alberta and their high school football team, the Raymond Comets. I look to visualize the specific reality of Raymond, especially their approach to sports and how it interfaces with their faith as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This paper supports COMET in three main ways. I examine my own history of sport and my relationship to the Raymond Comets, I overview their faith and its relationship to sport, and I provide my own history developing COMET. I detail the theoretical and practical approaches used to produce COMET, examining the role of observation within photography, and describing the process of building the narrative within the gallery. Finally, I describe influences on COMET, and detail how and where COMET fits in the history of the documentary tradition.

GOOSE . . . FEATHERS?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (6) ◽  
pp. A23-A23
Author(s):  
R. J. M.
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Golf Courses ◽  
Canada Geese ◽  
High School Football ◽  
Daily Output ◽  
The Past ◽  
Football Team ◽  
Hockey Players ◽  
Suburban Life

Renton, WA—A goose in every pot strikes Michael Hansford as quite a good idea. In his capacity as maintenance foreman at Coulon Beach Park here, Mr. Hansford has to tidy up after several hundred Canada geese that feed on the park's lakeside grasses and sleep on the water. "Do I like `em? No!" says Mr. Hansford. "They look OK flying overhead, but try cleaning up after them once they hit the ground." Canada's most contentious export (after hockey players) is out of hand. In the past several years, the black-billed, white-cheeked birds have been abandoning their migratory ways at a rising rate, settling down to year-round suburban life on lawns, fairways and shorelines from Seattle to Maine. The mess they make sets bird lovers against people rather more concerned about what is happening to choice metropolitan landscapes. . . Increasingly, geese are besmirching parks, beaches, golf courses and other places people enjoy going. The daily output per goose, to two decimal places is 1.17 ounces, according to limnologist E.A. Manny, who has done a study. . . "They're disgusting," says Billy Regan, co-captain and quarterback of the Belmont High School football team in Massachusetts. "Sometimes we have to do push-ups in their." . . .

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