Friday Night LightsIs high school football a sport, or is it more than that for some people? I learned that the book is more sociological, meaning it focuses on our human society regarding racial issues and also emphasizes that economics and the gap between a city's wealthy residents versus the more working-class residents of a On the other hand, they are all topics that are subjected to in-depth examination. This is more of the main or focal point of the entire book and not so much in the movie. Although Bissinger's story is a true account of the Permian High School team's 1988 football season, it reads like fiction and while I believe his book is superior, the film adaptation still stands out as one of the greatest football films never seen. see in cinemas. In the film it was the unity of the team that was most significant in the development of the story. Almost 80-90% of the book is in the movie, but there are still some differentiated contrasts in the book compared to the movie. It has the intensity and realism that children were and is and also captures the essence...