CHAPTER SUMMARIES WITH ANALYSIS

CHAPTER NINE - Friday Night Politics

I.

Summary

The next game is the Midland High Bulldogs and the Permian fans begin camping outside Ratliff Stadium on Sunday night in order to purchase tickets. There are subtle whispers, however, that Midland has the stuff to take the Panthers, a sign of the insecurity after the Marshall game. Usually it is Midland Lee that causes Permian to fret, but now their minds are on the Bulldogs. In the locker room before the game, Gaines rachets up his pep talk with something more emotional, urging his players to echo his phrases and exhortations. And always they end with, “Let’s go! Let’s go!”

The two teams trade punts and then Permian scores twice within a few minutes, once on a two yard run by Comer after a 54 yard dirve and the other a 36 yard pass from Winchell. He follows that with one of his best passes ever, a 49 yard score. By the fourth quarter, the score is 35-0, but Permian doesn’t let up and scores once more before the end of the game. There are numerous skirmishes between individual players in the final quarter: Jerrod McDougal consistently hitting Jeff Rashell over and over until the defensive end finally goes down, and Brian Chavez going at it with another Midland player who can only swear at his opponent while Chavez just silently keeps hitting him. Tony Chavez is enormously proud of his son. Never in a thousand years could he have believed it would turn out this way. He is enormously successful himself, a lawyer with his own practice, but he never thought it would be this good. Fortunately, he supports his son’s team and the idea of Mojo while still remaining very different from those around him. He is a liberal in a field of die-hard conservatives, and he sometimes just shakes his head at the beliefs of most of Odessa. The game ends with the Permian players lined up, helmets off and looking like a row of .......

Notes

This chapter reaffirms the strength of high school football in Texas. It is a reflection of everything the majority of the people in .......

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