"Friday Night Lights"

If you haven't seen or don't know exactly what's meant my "Friday Night Lights" well I'm sorry for you because you missed something. Sure a lot of you don't spend much time in front of the tube (TV) but this series is one this writer thinks was and turned out to be a must see.

Friday Night Lights is the name of a made for TV mini series written and produced by Peter Berg (Google him you'll quickly remember) and aired first for Direct TV customers and later on the networks. Having Direct TV 101 I've already seen the entire 5th season including the finale yesterday. I'm not going to say I was completely happy with the last episode, the final show of the series but all in all Peter Berg did tie all loose ends and made it very enjoyable. I can say Bev and I will honestly miss viewing our Texas families and small town Texas goings on. I mentioned Direct TV 101 which aired the series to Direct TV customers first then later in the Fall on network TV, so come Fall you all can tune in to at least season of this series.

I first came into contact with high school football and it's importance to the folks of Texas and Oklahoma while living in Oklahoma City for awhile in 1970. High school football between Texas and Oklahoma was as intense if not more so that college rivalries there and elsewhere. High school football in Texas is a big business, with fierce competition and not just the large cities but maybe more so in places like Midland or Odessa to name a couple. This is what folks in those small towns live for and die for and the players rule the communities and coach's are paid like those in the college ranks. Passion is the word when it comes to Texas and high school football and the communities they represent and these boys and girls grow up fast in every way.

"Friday Night Lights" is the saga of a small Texas town's football team and then teams and the players, coaches, girl friends, wives and boosters and families of these teams. In five seasons we've seen player go and new ones come and mature as far as players and men, and also the women in their lives grow and mature as women. If it isn't already it will no doubt be a box set of DVD's soon and if you can check out season's 1 - 4 and then watch season 5 and I hope enjoy as much as we did.

"Friday Night Lights" I miss you already and thank Peter Berg whom I liked for years for giving us such a powerful series to watch.