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 ...

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.

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.