Odessa Permian vs Midland Lee 1988

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Boobie Miles Highlights

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The Season

With Boobie Miles out due to a knee injury Permian High started the season rough losing their 2nd game to Marshall a school that is separated by 370 miles. Suffering this loss the Permian players lost hope in this season thinking it was all over. But luckily they have a coach so inspiring that led them through this horrible lost because of one point. After this loss coach Gaines always has a pep talk with the team before every game. Overcoming the loss Permian started a winning streak and now Boonie Miles has faded away he's not the star anymore. Coming back meant nothing to the fans once he stepped on the field the fans did not cheer they were there for Permian not Boobie Miles. He wasn't ready the coaches didn't feel that way either he was just pushing his injury and everybody was doubting him coming back too soon. -Epi G

Boobie Miles (L.V)

Boobie:

" All I wanted to do, " he repeated again. " make it to the pros"
      Boobies dream is to go to a Division1 college, set records for rushing yards and then go to the NFL

" He's cool, I love 'im a lot, " said Boobie of his uncle. " If it weren't for him,

i wouldn't be here
        He felt that his uncle taught him well as a young man, and as a great running back


Boobie is the star at Permian High School, but the only thing that is giving him a second look on playing football at a Division1 College is his injury he sufferd in the teams scrimmage game before the season started...  Boobie is the best running back in the state of Texas, boobie was required to have arthroscopic surgery. Boobie has Nebraska, Texas A&M and Arkansas looking to recruit him, but the college he wants to play is University of Texas.  Boobie Miles is the toughest player on the team he was 6 foot tall 215-pound frame, he wanted to make players think twice before tackling him. This was the reason he loved the game so much, for those hits, for those acts of physical violence that made him tingle and feel wonderful, for those quintessential shots that made him smile .... " yea im physical ", he repeated.    
                                                             Dawayne B.

THE MO-JO's Football Team

    Permian High School :

•   The Permian Panthers known as the MO-JO's. Permian got its name the MO-JO's from a group of spirited students screaming MO-JO MO-JO so the name MO-JO stuck with the school so now the Permian Panthers were known as the MO-JO's. The MO-JO's football team meant everything for the town, people waited up to two weeks to get season tickets to watch a high school football team go to state. The people in the town would make fundraisers to help the football team with the gear and the new football stadium, you can say this town is very proud of their school's football team.
•  On ABC's "Nightline" he called the permian fans "football crazy" and during the show it was pointed out that a 5.6 million high school football stadium had been built in Odessa in 1982. Most of the money used to buy this stadium for Odessa was from a voter-approved bond issue. "There are so few other things we can look at with pride," Allen: "We don't have a large university that has thirty or forty thousand students in it. We don't have the art museum that some community have and world-renowned.They say when someone talks about west texas, they talk about football." "There is nothing to replace it. It's an integral part of what made the community so strong.you take it away and it's almost like you strip the identity of the people".  - Kevin C.
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Odessa

Odessa, Texas 

Odessa , Texas is a small town in the middle of nowhere in the West side of Texas. 

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•  Odessa was rated 5th worse city to live in out of 300.
• Separated by segregation Odessa had 3 different schools. Ector being classified as the "minority" school which had to compete in their own "nergro league". With the closing of Ector, the school boards from other schools in the community were arguing about how many blacks were going to be going to each school knowing that they can make their football team better simply because they were black and or course they could run faster than other people trying to join the football team. 
• Football meant everything to this community their expectations were high for the team taking a trip to state. So their expectations were high for the 1988 Permian Panthers football team. Nobody saw why the Permian Panthers can miss a trip to state in 1988.
• Expectations were always high for the Permian High School football team. Football games were the only thing Permian High School students looked forward to every Friday night. 

• Many people waited in like up to 2 weeks to get season tickets to see their Permian Panthers play football i mean they did go to state the previous year so they did not see why they wouldn't make it this year.
• Every year the Permian Panthers hosted a "Watermelon Feed" which was more of a fundraiser people came dressed for the event. Many kids wearing their "MO-JO" shirts or even just black and white. At this fundraiser they sat down and watched highlights from the previous year and introduced alumni from permian.Many of the residents in this community looked forward to all the Friday nights when the 1988 Season started in Odessa Texas because football was all this community had. Epi G