I went to Dallas Jesuit in the 90's and we weren't the panthers.. we were the rangers

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ALso, was the championship game really played at teh Astrodome? I thought it was somewhere else.

Don't know where the championship game was played that year, but the game between Permian and Carter was actually the state semifinal game and was played in Austin at Memorial Stadium. Also the last district game that season was played at San Angelo Central and then the coin flip was held in Midland.

Come on mitch, the movie wasn't accurate at all. The setting was 1988, to be accurate it should reflect the style of the timeperiod, more dirty mullets!

It did not follow the book. Odessa hated the book, but they will probably love this movie.

A few more geeky movie mistake things.....

At the beginning of the movie when the scouts are at practice, all of their caps are VERY 21st century style (late 90's at best).

The Miami scout had a bumper sticker on his clipboard with the lowercase "miami" logo....that didn't appear until '99 or 2000.

John 3:16

"Thirty years ago kids talked about their duties and responsibilities ... today they talk about their rights and privileges."

A few more geeky movie mistake things.....

At the beginning of the movie when the scouts are at practice, all of their caps are VERY 21st century style (late 90's at best).

The Miami scout had a bumper sticker on his clipboard with the lowercase "miami" logo....that didn't appear until '99 or 2000.

John 3:16

"Thirty years ago kids talked about their duties and responsibilities ... today they talk about their rights and privileges."

The movie time is different from the book time. They wrote the movie as if it happens today (at least in the stories I have seen about it.)

Well here's something else too.....Tim McGraw doesn't even have a son. What were THEY thinking...geez.

I'm not a big Tim McGraw fan but damn, I thought he did a fine job.

Preston - there was a definite attempt at some mulletude but, I agree there should have been more if they truly wanted it to be perfectly accurate.

how bout the fact that on the play boobie is hurt, they call 28 sweep. the play he comes back and runs in the middle of the season is a 30 series play.

Aggie2001, which scenes was the real Boobie Miles in? I must have missed those, however I saw Roy Williams as a coach on the opposing team! All in all, thought it was a damn good movie!

Permian plays Jesuit during the regular season, not the playoffs.
They played Carter in the semi-finals in the rain at texas university's memorial stadium, and lost after a missed field goal, I believe.

Carter wanted to have the game at the Cotton Bowl, which was inner-city Dallas, and the Permian coaches refused, so Austin was cohsen as the neutral site.

Boobie injured his knee in a pre-season game, not a regular season game.
Chris Comer was discovered in the first game, a loss, not in the second game.

Bobbie dressed for Midland Lee but never got into the game; he tried to quit at halftime, finally quitting after the game.

Winchell's mother was already dead from cancer; he lived with his grandfather.

The QB for the 1989 state championship team was Stoney Case, who would go on to star for Fran at New Mexico.

I thought they made Gaines too sympathetic of a figure; I think he was a little more ruthless.

Not a bad movie, but the inaccuracies bug you.

I'm glad it's been 15 years since I read the book. That way these mistakes won't bother me.

Referencing the Bank of America sign -- Bank of America was around, but not in Texas in the late '80s.

Well, me and mr. anaggiemom (herbie) went to see Friday Night Lights today - and NO ONE asked for his autograph! He was actually an extra in the astrodome scenes and the diner scene.

Maybe he should have worn his black shirt and/or "Mel's Diner" type hat!

dreaded double post which took me 12 hours to find!

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It's a good movie, but (of course) the book is better. The director is a relative of the author -- cousin, I think -- and so I'm sure the author had some imput in the script. He did make a movie that was true to the spirit of the book, even if it misses some of the particulars.

homann, boobie was cast as an assistant coach for permian, so he was on the sidelines quite a bit. the main scene that you can find him in, was the locker room scene when coach gaines pointed to boobie and said "boobie would die to be in this game"...derek luke (the actor) was standing right next to the real boobie miles. also, in the scene where boobie tears his knee up, they cut to a shot of the sideline and it's billy bob thornton standing next to the real boobie miles...must have been very surreal for the real boobie to see his nightmare replayed for film.

chavez also made a few cameos in the movie as an assistant coach.