High School
Brownsville Lopez's 'Friday Night Lights' dream becoming a reality
Shaun Tarantola came to Texas in search of his own 'Friday Night Lights.' At Brownsville Lopez High School, he found a different story which needs telling.
Shaun Tarantola wasn’t a big reader until he found the book that spoke to him for the first time.
A high school freshman in Washington in the early 1990s, he rifled through “Friday Night Lights,” the story of Odessa Permian’s quest for a state championship in the 1988 season, picturing a world where football was religion, and the townspeople were its congregation. That was the first time he prayed for a piece of Texas high school football.
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