Parker's quest to help secure a state-of-the-art turf football field for Alaska's Barrow High School team was an incredible story when it happened eight years ago, and it continues to be that.

A number of media outlets covered the Barrow community's resilience as it rallied around football as a way to improve on a high school ... Parker Field was unveiled in Barrow, Alaska.

Winning streaks are back in the news this week in Alaska high school football ... consecutive blowout victory by limiting Barrow to a second-quarter field goal. Ryan Adkins threw four touchdown ...

Sports Illustrated's excellent Underdogs series, a run of mini-documentaries on high school football teams, travels to Barrow, Alaska ... Their home field is so close to the Arctic Ocean that ...

The eight-episode series will chronicle the 2015 season of the Barrow High School Whalers football ... build their field. And it fit in perfectly with their vision of telling Alaska's story.

This Saturday, Alaskans will be watching the state's first-ever high school football playoff game north of the Arctic Circle. The Barrow Whalers ... wandering near the field a couple days ago.