Let's finish it!

SPOILER ALERT!! I'm watching "Friday Night Lights" on Direct TV's 101 network so if you're waiting until NBC airs the episodes in 2010, read no further!

I would so hate to be on Tami Taylor's bad side, but I definitely want her to be my new BFF. She's smart, sassy and not easily intimidated. The way she put the smack down on Joe McCoy and the G.O.B. (Good Ol' Boosters) earned her a spot in my Sister Circle. Pause it: The Sister Circle is an elite club that includes Oprah, Michelle Obama, Karen Walker and Jack MacFarland ("Will & Grace"), Arianna Huffington, Julia Roberts and my BFF Jeff. It's very hard to get in.

Tami is the every-woman character that's hard to come by on TV these days. A working wife and mother of two who floats between both roles effortlessly. She's the kind of mother a daughter tells her secrets to and the woman every man wants by his side at a dinner party. Tami Taylor is who I hope to be when I grow up (but with a better paying job than high school principal).

The action picks up with the fallout of Coach Taylor forfeiting last week's game. The whole team has quit and he's left with nothing. When Landry lays into him about the way he deserted the team, it's one of the rare times we get to see Coach in an unflattering light. Enter Buddy Garrity who squeals that Dillon High's star running back, Luke Cafferty, has a fake address and belongs at East Dillon. When Joe McCoy learns that Luke must transfer, he corners Tami with the threat of the Panthers being stripped of all their state titles won under the leadership of her husband. Tami never waivers and calls him in front of the G.O.B., asking if the men around the table knew their rings were at risk because of Joe's threats.

Coach Taylor calls a special practice for Saturday night and asks Vince to help him put the team back together. In a show of solidarity, they burn their old uniforms and the tapes from the forfeited game. Luke, who is very desperate to play football, even tosses in his Dillon Panthers t-shirt. They decide they're going to "finish it" together. If Vince keeps stepping up the way he did in this episode, I see him becoming a team captain. I thought he was going to be another Smash, but he's going down the path of becoming the next Matt Saracen - the kid with the hard-knock life, but the heart of a champion.

Random thoughts: If Tim Riggins joins East Dillon's coaching staff, do you think he'll change his ways? ... I chuckle every time he encounters someone and they ask, "Aren't you Tim Riggins?" ... Landry Clarke is still one of the most endearing characters on this show. The day he graduates will be the day I hunt down the writers of ths show and beg them to make him a schoolteacher at East Dillon.