A Friday Night Lights Companion: Love, Loss, and Football in Dillon, Texas

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Introduction by Will Leitch, founding editor of Deadspin

Talk to any of the millions of devoted Friday Night Lights fans and theyll tell you: its not just a show about high school football. Its rich, interesting characters and honestly portrayed relationships make the shows portrait of West Texas life compelling and relatable in ways that have nothingand everythingto do with touchdowns.

A Friday Night Lights Companion celebrates the show, its fearlessness, and what its meant to those who love it.

Dave Campbells Texas Football managing editor Travis Stewart provides a moving tribute to the power of high school football, by way of unlikely hero Matt Saracen
Jonna Rubin shares the lessons shes learned from the best marriage on television: Eric and Tami Taylors (lesson number one: drink more wine)
Television Without Pity writer Jacob Clifton offers a meditation on one of Friday Night Lights most fundamental values: being a part of something bigger than yourself
The Washington Posts Jen Chaney reminds us what we love most about all our favorite Dillon residents, from Tim Riggins to Buddy Garrity to Jess Merriweather
And more writing and reflections on Friday Night Lights

A Friday Night Lights Companion takes you from series pilot to series finale, through all five masterfully crafted seasons worth of love, loss, family, and football.

Author Bio

Will Leitch is a contributing editor at New York magazine, a film critic at Yahoo, and the founder of Deadspin. He is also the author of four books, most recently Are We Winning He lives with his wife in Brooklyn. Leah Wilson graduated from Duke University with a degree in Culture and Modern Fiction and is currently Editor-in-Chief, Smart Pop, at BenBella Books. She lives in Cambridge, Mass.