What Friday Night Lights Has to Teach Us
High School Is Hard—And In Some Sense, We’re All Still Living It
9 min readSep 4, 2023
It’s that time in Michigan: early season Friday night lights. It’s not Texas, but high school football here is damn serious: we have cool fall weather, local newspapers profiling players and teams, and cars parked outside huge stadiums for three-quarters of a mile down country dirt roads…