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...hundred and fifty million years ago (is this not the way James Michener would begin?), a depression that would come to be known as the Permian Basin developed in what would come to be known as West Texas. Then, to make a long story short (the demands here are somewhat more telescopic than those Big Jim labors under), there would be dinosaurs and much later there would be fossil fuels. Cow towns called Midland and Odessa would be established, their commercial cornerstones eventually to shift from cattle to the petroleum that lay beneath the desert pocked by what the Spanish...
...days it was Odessa High vs. Midland High. But as the towns grew they added new schools. Odessa opened Odessa Permian in 1959. Midland opened Midland Robert E. Lee in 1961. The new schools stole the thunder from the old schools. An alumnus of old Odessa High said the other day, "Nobody wants to hear about our merit scholars or that our chorus went to Wales last year. All they talk about is Permian football." Today Odessa-Midland football means the Permian Panthers and the Midland Lee Rebels...
Although he’d been an academic stud at Permian, the public school product doubted his ability to juggle college-level football and academics...
Playing before crowds of 20,000 each week in their five million dollar stadium, Permian seniors had, in many instances, achieved the aspirations they’d held for as long as they could remember...
...eventually, so too did Permian football. Texas semifinalists Chavez’s senior year, the Panthers brought state titles home to Odessa in 1989 and 1991 before hitting a lull that has kept the school from the playoffs in recent years...