$139 million for a high school stadium? In football hotbeds, it's the norm.

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. The book was generally hated by white residents of Odessa

It portrayed them as racists, entirely dependent on the oil market, with cirtually nothing in their lives but classism and the Church of Permian High Football.

A WaPo sportswriter took a two-year leave of absence and moved to Odessa to write it via immersion. He wasn't under cover or anything, but the residents apparently expected that rosy portrayal. They didn't get it.

The final chapter is the real kick in the balls, but it has little to do with Odessa. It's the story of two superstars at Carter High in Dallas and how ridiculously extreme the worship of Texas high school football can get (I think Carter was the school that beat Permian in the state 5AAA [or whatever] semifinals that year.)