Nuts

A friend tells me about the time he was having drinks with a couple of Texans who seemed unremarkable until the topic turned to high school football. “Those people were crazy,” he says. “I mean, absolutely nuts.” A fair appraisal, if H.G. Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights is accurate. Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, wrote Friday Night Lights after taking a leave of absence from The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1988 to […]