In H.G. Bissinger's "Friday Night Lights" The town of Odessa Texas is estatic about their high school football.I can relate to this from when i lived in Billings, Montana, everyone i knew followed the Mustangs 3A basball.
 It says in the book, "On ABC's "Nightline", he called Permian fans "football crazy", and during the show it was pointed out that a 5.6 million high school football stadium had been built in Odessa in 1982." Odessa really was "football crazy", "after being ranked the fifth worst city to live in in the country out of three hundred cities", the town of Odessa used 5.6 million dollars to build a football stadium, instead of putting the money to a better use, Odessa loved their Permian Panthers, and they really were "football crazy". Now Billings wasn't that crazy about the Mustangs but it was much like it, we all followed them or went to their games. They were a team we could call our own and we liked that, much like the town of Odessa Texas when it came to the Permian Panthers.