Ratliff Stadium

Ratliff Stadium is a stadium in Odessa, Texas. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field for the city's two public high schools, Odessa [High School |Odessa] and Permian High Schools.
The stadium opened in 1982 and holds 17,931 people. The stadium was built after the Ector County Independent School District received a donation of land from ranchers Bud and Sallie Ratliff – who’d established their ranch on this land in 1903.
It was the stadium used during the filming of most of the football action in the 2004 movie Friday [Night Lights |Friday Night Lights], an adaptation of Friday Night Lights: [A Town, a Team, and a Dream|a 1990 book] about Permian High School's 1988 football season.
As of 2015, Ratliff Stadium also serves as the home game venue for the UT [Permian Basin Falcons football|University of Texas of the Permian Basin Falcons Football team].
Other events held at Ratliff Stadium have included track and field, soccer, marching band contests, and graduation ceremonies.