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No Friday Night Lights: Reservation Football on the Edge of America Audiobook
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No Friday Night Lights is the story of a rural Nevada high school football team that never wins. Veteran reporter John M. Glionna examines the 2022 season in which the McDermitt Bulldogs practiced for weeks in the summer only to learn once again that they had come up short of the necessary players due to the dwindling population on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation on the Nevada-Oregon border.
Eight-man football helps give the coaches and kids a sense of community—despite a lack of wins, and despite their home's status as one of the most remote locations for a public school in the West. Glionna's relationships with coaches, players, parents—and even those McDermitt residents remotely connected to high school football—provide telling insights into local lives, many of them from the Paiute and Shoshone tribes of Fort McDermitt. Although victory and recognition elude the players, Glionna illuminates their hard work and dedication—leaving the listener with glimpses of life on the ground in "flyover" country.
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“Narrator Danny Campbell’s slightly scratchy timbre fits the American West, and his engaged tone never wavers. His inflections help conjure the characters Glionna writes about—and that’s exactly what they are. Campbell is the perfect match for Glionna’s research into the rugged people who inhabit this rural setting.”
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“Features a smart, sharp reporter taking us to a place we’d never be able to visit on our own…Glionna finds humanity and community there and occasional glimpses of hope.”
— Los Angeles Review of Books
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Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction
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About John M. Glionna
John M. Glionna is an award–winning journalist who has traveled the world as a newspaper and magazine writer. He is the author of Outback Nevada: Real Stories from the Silver State and the Spur Award winner No Friday Night Lights: Reservation Football on the Edge of America. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, the London Guardian, Los Angeles Times, and Outside magazine. He has been included in Best American Sports Writing and Best Los Angeles Times Foreign Reporting. After twenty-six years at the Los Angeles Times, he now works as a freelance writer.
About Danny Campbell
Danny Campbell is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and an actor who has appeared in CBS’ The Guardian, the films A Pool, a Fool, and a Duel and Greater Than Gravity, and in over twenty-five commercials. He is a company member of the Independent Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles and is an adjunct faculty member at Santa Monica College.