The Friday Night Lights TV series didn't directly adapt the Permian story, but was heavily influenced by the book's depiction of high school football, especially in the final two Friday Night Lights seasons set in deprived East Dillon, Texas, which has parallels to Permian's largely poor and Hispanic rivals Odessa High. Friday Night Lights book author Buzz Bissinger has maintained a friendship with Miles, visiting him in prison numerous times and writing about their relationship in a short e-book called After Friday Night Lights. When asked about Friday Night Lights, Gary Gaines, the coach from the movie and the one Coach Taylor was based on, didn't like the book and didn't care about the movie or TV show.