%0 Journal Article
%T Boobie Miles: Failure and Friday Night Lights
%A Samantha N. Sheppard
%J Journal of Sport and Social Issues
%@ 1552-7638
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0193723519840501
%X This essay examines the sporting failures and racial iconicity of James ¡°Boobie¡± Miles, whose athletic performance of defeat on the gridiron is chronicled in H. G. Bissinger¡¯s bestselling nonfiction book Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, A Dream (1990), Peter Berg¡¯s film adaptation Friday Night Lights (2004), and Big K.R.I.T.¡¯s songs and music videos ¡°Hometown Hero¡± from his album K.R.I.T. Wuz Here (2010) and ¡°Boobie Miles¡± from his album 4eva N a Day (2012). Examining how the film displaces defeat, locating its effects and affects in the injured running back, I unpack the ways (Black) popular culture reclaims Boobie¡¯s embodied failures on screen as a site of rhetorical agency and oppositional theorizing
%K Friday Night Lights
%K Boobie Miles
%K racial icon
%K sports
%K film
%K failure
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0193723519840501