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The poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” written by A.E. Housman, is about an athlete who at one time is great and mighty, but then has something tragic happen and over time nobody cares anymore. This relates to Boobie Miles because of his knee injury in the book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger. Poem author A.E. Housman says in his poem “To an Athlete Dying Young”, “The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place” this relates a lot with Boobie because he was a great running back, so essentially he wins the race by running his way through people and he is highly praised by his peers, his peers being the people of Odessa and fans of Permian Football. Boobie Miles is an outstanding running back, until his knee gets blown out and he is benched for weeks. The people suddenly start almost revolting against Boobie calling him “just another nigger” (Friday Night Lights 58). His name is no long cheered through the market-place, and the only “chair” he will be using is one that has wheels and moves him around because he cant on his own will.

In the book Friday Night Lights in the chapter called “Boobie”, Boobie miles the star running back from the Permian high school foot ball team injured his knee in the pre-season game. Bobbie miles was the “young athlete” of the football team. This player has proved his skill on the football field over and over again. The poem “To An Athlete Dying Young” written by A.E. Housman relates to the chapter “Boobie” because the poem is about an athlete being in his prime then crashing down to the bottom and not being to pull them self's back up. this represents how Boobie "fell" down and now he cant bring him self up. Boobie is "just another nigger"(Friday Night Lights 58). people lost faith in Boobie.