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This rivalry is hard to understand for anyone not living here. It is vicious at times. And when football season starts, I just don't want to hear any bad stuff about Permian while working in Midland--my son and I both graduated from there. He graduated 2 years after the year portrayed in "Friday Night Lights" and knew some of the players.

Most people here accepted the movie but thought it made everyone in Odessa seem like a bunch of real hicks. They were ready to kill the author of the book after it came out! LOL!

130 posted on 07/06/2005 9:12:08 PM PDT by luvie (When we celebrate our freedom, our troops [must] understand that the American people support them.)

I once asked some of the folks in the breakroom how the rivalry started and one of the folks saud that it went back to a football game in the 1940s. Is this the case?

BTW, I had lived in Balmorhea for a year; taking a trip to Midland or Odessa was a big deal!