Research Paper On Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Lights – One Team’s Emotional Journey to a State Championship “Friday Night Lights” is a 2004 movie directed by Peter Berg, based on the true story “Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream” written by H.G. Bissinger. This analysis is about the Permian High School Panther’s emotional journey to a state championship. In this film we see how an array of emotions, including, conflict, counterfeit emotions, mixed emotions, self-concept, self-esteem, debilitative emotions, facilitative emotions, reflected appraisal, self-fulfilling prophecy, non-listening, and social exchange theory affect a football team. As we see early on in this film coach Gary Gaines preaches to his team about being a perfect team and bringing home the

Boobie’s reflective appraisal reflects one thing; that he’s the best. Unlike, quarterback Mike Winchell whose life is full of mixed emotions, full back Don Billingsley who has an enormous amount of conflict surrounding him, and running back Chris Comer’s debilitative emotions over getting hurt. Safety Brian Chavez’s self-concept and facilitative emotions are exactly the type of positive reinforcement the team needs. The Permian High School Panthers were supported by the entire Odessa community including a non-listening booster club whose social exchange theory truly only benefited one side, keeping Coach Gaines in constant turmoil, not only with the town and boosters but with his team as well. While overusing Boobie in the first game, where Permian had a large lead on the opposing team Boobie gets hurt. With a torn ACL and out for the season, Coach Gaines and the entire community’s self-fulfilling prophecy that the team cannot win without Boobie, starts to unfold. In the second game, Winchell struggles with mixed emotions and conflict preventing him from holding his team together ultimately leading to a loss. Coach

With the Permian – Midland Lee game underway conflict arises with Billingsley as the ball is stripped out of his hands and intercepted. A conflicted Billingsley clothes lines a Midland Lee player resulting in him being pulled from the game. Coach Gaines confronts Billingsley about his aggressiveness, not fully understanding that all of his conflicted feelings are coming from Billingsley’s need to impress his abusive father in the stands. Down fourteen to seven with less than five minutes left in the game Coach Gaines puts Boobie on the game. On the second play upon Boobie’s return he gets hit and goes down with a fresh knee injury. On second down, with one minute twenty-seconds left in the game the Permian panthers pull their team together with a series of completions that move them towards the goal line, unfortunately, a final incompletion in the last seconds of the game leads to loss. Back in the locker room the team is full of emotion, with Winchell crying out apologies to his teammates for his role in their loss, while Coach Gaines is enduring his own criticism from the fans outside. In an emotional ride home, we see conflict arise between Billingsley and his