Abstract
Moving on through the landscape of hyper-mediated narratives that is commercial football today, we arrive at arguably commercial art’s best effort at telling the story. Further, Friday Night Lights presents us with rich opportunities for postmodernist understandings of the game, what we do with it today, and quite possibly what we should do with it.
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Kerr, R.L. (2015). A Merriwellean Billy Clyde from a Postmodern Beer a Minute. In: How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137534071_8
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