ODESSA, Texas — Gary Gaines stands astride the 50-yard line swathed in the warm, sweet glow of the stadium lights —those lights, the most storied high-watt bulbs in all the land.His eyes glisten as he points to the pines behind the end zones of Ratliff Stadium. "Those trees," he says, "were only fence-high the first time I saw them."
It is always a story when a coach comes back 20 years after walking away, but it is more so here, where a generation ago Gaines was coach of the Permian High School team immortalized in Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger's classic tale about one year and one team in the flatlands of West Texas.
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