Friday Night Lights Badge

What would Friday night be without high school football? Let us go ahead and answer that question. It would suck! Friday night was already pretty sweet. School's done for the weekend and you finally have some time without constant barrage of homework (really??? 3 hours a night. Really???). It's your time. High schoolers still like to have fun, right? Yes they do and prep football is siren call of fun for the weekend to start. We love Friday night and it wouldn't be the same without the Friday Night Lights of the big name. We wanted a Prep Sport badge that reflected the energy and buzz that builds as Friday progresses along till your smack in the big lights.
Before we jump into Friday Night LIghts, what exactly is a badge? First of all, you don't wear it or pin it to the wall unless by wall, you mean your Prep Sport Player Profile wall. The badge is our way of giving a shout out to any visitors for what you're in to. We're starting with 15 and it will only grow from there as we continue to see cool stuff online by sport. You can switch em out any time so don't worry about committing to one. The badges are your playground. Now let's look at Friday Night Lights more closely.
The badge takes place against a black background to reflect the fact that most high school football games occur at night and indoor. Yea, Texas high school football may have astroturf but they're not in indoor stadiums...yet. We'll give that another 5 - 10 years for those football fanatics. As the animation continues you see big flood lights...a beacon of outdoor football, sway across the badge. There are two running light effects down the top and left that interact with the the words "Friday Night" on the left and "Lights" on the right. The lights tend to flicker in and out as the animation continues. Here at prepSportFantasy.com, we love the first moment when the big flood lights are turned on. There's that big "snap" sound and the lights slowly warm up inconsistently. It means we're getting closer. Closer to the hits, the runs, the catches. The lights are talking and what they're saying is that some serious fun is about to come our way. The animation loops back around with the light effect and that's the badge.
Part of the what makes high school football cool is that it's usually played at night and outdoors. That's why you need the big lights to begin with. If you think about it, what else in the life of a high schooler requires giant arrays of floodlights other than prep football? There must be something important in order to ramp up those massive lighting giants. Yea, we've heard of Friday Night Lights in tv shows and movies but to the average high school student, player, or fan...the real show is right there in their home town...under the lights.