Sentences with phrase «town in their high school football»

, with its real - life portrayal of the fanaticism that has overtaken a small town in their high school football frenzy, I would have thought that many of the cult - like activities that go on in Friday Night Lights were overstated by quite a bit.

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Dallas (CNN)-- Cheerleaders from a small eastern Texas town have won the first battle in their crusade to display Christian religious messages on banners at their high school's football games.

Jan 04,2016... High school footballers in Danbury — and thousands of other towns — bask under admiration from pretty co...

High school footballers in Danbury — and thousands of other towns — bask under admiration from pretty coeds

Taylor grew up in Kingsland, a small town in the southern part of Georgia, but after his sophomore year in high school he moved to Jacksonville to live with relatives and to play in the well - regarded football program at Ribault Hhigh school he moved to Jacksonville to live with relatives and to play in the well - regarded football program at Ribault HighHigh.

a mentally retarded black man doing everything a human being could possibly do at a high school football game — greeting the crowd, providing radio commentary, delivering the pregame pep talk, running water bottles to the players, cheering with the cheerleaders, leading the halftime marching band and racing across the field with the school flag after touchdowns — everything except actually playing, and basking in his town's love every mad minute of it.

And on a Friday night in a South Carolina town, his encounter with a mentally retarded black man doing everything a human being could possibly do at a high school football game — greeting the crowd, providing radio commentary, delivering the pregame pep talk, running water bottles to the players, cheering with the cheerleaders, leading the halftime marching band and racing across the field with the school flag after touchdowns — everything except actually playing, and basking in his town's love every mad minute of it.

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He was, after all, from a small town in Vermont, a state not exactly known for the quality of its high school football.

Under the first Friday night light of the high school football season, in a small South Carolina town known as the Peach Capital of the World, the Strom Thurmond Rebels gathered in the end zone under the pines.

The state - financed «mobile tour» required acquiring a tractor trailer that traveled around the metro region «promoting the excitement of the Super Bowl experience» at 24 towns, parking at community events in New York and at high school and college football games.

Jack GuyIn a few short years, Friday Night Lights star Minka Kelly has earned a rabid following for her portrayal of Lyla Garrity, the complicated girlfriend of a high school football star in a tiny Texas town.

Friday Night Lights: In a small town, high school football is everything.

A small - town Canadian waitress pining for the attention of the former high - school football star finds her affections returned from the least likely of places in this entry into the 2005 Vancouver Film Festival from director Vic Sarin.

In addition to Sands, who is typically great, we also have John Carpenter regular Peter Jason as a delightfully stereotypical town football coach / high school gym teacher, The cherry on top, however, is John Goodman.

Fish - out - of - water high school football coach Jim White (played by sports movie king Kevin Costner) moves with his wife (Maria Bello) and two daughters to the small, Mexican - American migrant worker town of McFarland, CA and decides to start a cross country team at the school after noticing four kids in his gym class who excel at running.

So, he accepted a demotion to assistant football coach at the public high school in the predominantly - Latino, working - class town of McFarland, California.

Grier grew up in Fairmont, a rural town that was so small, he laughs, «Our high school football team didn't have enough players to scrimmage.»

A washed up high school football hero, nicknamed «Heck,» returns to his home town for a funeral and discovers his family home literally has a gateway to hell in the basement.

It's about a young Ivy League grad who ends up working as a sports reporter in Greenwood, Mississippi; covers a promising high school football player he thinks is destined for the NFL; then comes back to town six years later when the player is on trial for murder.