Bissinger spent a season in Odessa discovering just what makes a town pin its hopes on eleven boys on a football field. He returned with a compassionate but hard-eyed story of a town riven by money, race and class, where a high school can spend more on medical supplies for its athletic program than on its English department.
Bissinger goes in search of a town gripped by American Football, and a High school team's hopes and shattered dreams. Now a major Hollywood film starring Billy Bob Thornton.
