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No Friday Night Lights

Reservation Football on the Edge of America

by John M. Glionna
Danny Campbell
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No Friday Night Lights is the story of a rural Nevada high school football team that never wins. Veteran reporter John M. Glionna examines the 2022 season in which the McDermitt Bulldogs practiced for weeks in the summer only to learn once again that they had come up short of the necessary players due to the dwindling population on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation on the Nevada-Oregon border.
Eight-man football helps give the coaches and kids a sense of community—despite a lack of wins, and despite their home's status as one of the most remote locations for a public school in the West. Glionna's relationships with coaches, players, parents—and even those McDermitt residents remotely connected to high school football—provide telling insights into local lives, many of them from the Paiute and Shoshone tribes of Fort McDermitt. Although victory and recognition elude the players, Glionna illuminates their hard work and dedication—leaving the listener with glimpses of life on the ground in "flyover" country.

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    October 29, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9798855558593
      • File size: 304425 KB
      • Duration: 10:34:12

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    • English

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Many authors focus on championship teams that are in the spotlight and have banners hanging from the rafters. But John Glionna has turned his attention to a sleepy town on the Nevada-Oregon border called McDermitt, which participates--when it's able to--in eight-man high school football. Narrator Danny Campbell's slightly scratchy timbre fits the American West, and his engaged tone never wavers. His inflections help conjure the characters Glionna writes about--and that's exactly what they are. Campbell is the perfect match for Glionna's research into the rugged people who inhabit this rural setting. M.B. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine

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