Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream is a 1990 non-fiction book of immersive journalism written by H. G. Bissinger. It follows the story of the 1988 Permian High School Panthers football team from Odessa, Texas, as they made a run towards the Texas state championship. The book was originally intended to be a Hoosiers-type chronicle of high school sports holding together a small town. It was later adapted into a short-lived 1993 television series, a 2004 feature film and a second 2006–11 television series.