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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