![]() ![]() I love the game, and my family loves the game. I did play, but I was small, and I realized there was no future for a 140-pound pulling guard. She loves it and wants to know if you were a football player at any point. My 15-year-old daughter discovered Friday Night Lights over the summer thanks to the TV version, which was streaming on Netflix. Obviously, the only reason this coach’s obit wound up in the New York Times was because of my book. There was just an obit of the coach from the book in the New York Times. ![]() It became a noose at certain points in my life. I’m ambitious, but I know I am not going to top the success of that book. ![]() Nineteen-ninety - is that 32 years? Aye-yi-yi. People of Philadelphia, we give you best-selling author and Penn professor Buzz Bissinger, whose new book the Mosquito Bowl just landed.īuzz, when I was doing some research for this interview, I was shocked to learn that you published Friday Night Lights 32 years ago. There are few men we could interview in this space who could talk about their Gucci leather addiction, winning a Pulitzer at the Inquirer, their passion for a 1944 football game in the South Pacific, and a penchant for wearing women’s clothes. Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights and, now, The Mosquito Bowl at the Kelly Writers House at Penn / Photograph by Linette and Kyle Kielinski ![]()
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