Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger

It's Not Only Football: Friday Night Lights and Beyond

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🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Scott Porter & Zach Gilford chat with the author of "Friday Night Lights: a Town, a Team, and a Dream" - Buzz Bissinger! Buzz tells us about how he got his start in journalism, moving to Odessa, Texas to cover the Permian Panthers, his intimate relationship with the players, Boobie Miles' journey, how Pete Berg came into play, how the book informed the movie & the show, his dispute with NBC, the 3-way tie that decided Permian's playoff berth, the coinflip, the feeling of Friday night football games in Odessa, whether he feels FNL defined his career in the eyes of the public, FNL musical, the wide reach of the book, how the city of Odessa received the book & movie, his sons, his book "The Mosquito Bowl: A Game Of Life & Death in World War II", and so much more! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp! Visit BetterHelp.com/FNL today to get 10% off your first month! Listeners get up to an $80 Mastercard or Amazon eGift Card when you join and use the offer code "FNL" - visit AirMedCareNetwork.com/FNL today. Brought to you by Progressive Insurance!

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome in to another episode of it's not only football, Friday night lights, and beyond.
0:12.0	Today is not a recap episode.
0:14.2	Today is a very special episode
0:16.7	where we have an incredible guest who is really
0:20.6	the impetus for the entirety of Friday night lights.
0:23.4	It would not be here without him.
0:24.8	And I'm talking the book, the original book,
0:28.6	written by the man sitting across from us today,
0:31.0	Bus Bissinger. We could not be more lucky to have him here today.
0:35.6	Buzz, how are you, man?
0:36.7	I'm good, thank you for that introduction because most people say, there was a book.
0:41.6	Yeah. But there was a book, I started it. I started the franchise. I started the franchise.
0:46.0	And they might not only know you from Friday Night Lights the book. I mean, a prayer for the city or three nights in August, Father's Day, which actually is very impactful to me.
0:54.1	It's an incredible book and I urge everyone to go out and read all of these pieces.
0:58.9	You're a fantastic author and thank you.
1:00.9	And it's really interesting to me and I want to get into it later how the way you describe
1:06.3	West Texas is so beautiful and so locatious. I mean it's on par with how Cormac McCarthy talks about West Texas which is you know that's really kind
1:15.2	setting I'll take it I'll take it but it is just reread the book and I remember it being a great book and now
1:21.5	20 years later you're an amazing writer it's hard to
1:25.1	realize this isn't a novel that it's it's all true I mean everything in
1:30.1	it is factual there may be dispute everything in it's true as far as I know yeah
1:34.5	and they've people in Odessa have tried to debunk it for years and they could not
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