Sorry it's taken me so long to post on "FNL". I'm preparing for vacation and the clock has not been on my side. In any case ...I'm so glad I have access to Direct TV. I would get get down on my knees and kiss it's feet if I were into that kind of thing ... or if it had feet. Direct TV airs the show commercial free and it makes those 44 minutes fly by.
After last week's bonfire of solidarity, Coach Taylor's Lions no longer have uniforms. They set out on a fund-raising mission which was more about building team unity than raising money. The boys had to push a car up and down the street, yelling for the residents of East Dillon to contribute. Little did they know, Coach Taylor was pulling the money from his own pockets and sending Tim Riggins ahead of the car giving money to people to drop into the bucket. Pause it: Can you imagine what it would've done to team morale if they knew the coach was bribing people to give money? When Coach Taylor asks the school principal for money to buy new uniforms, he tells Coach that nobody ever expected him to take the job and he's nothing more than a joke.
Coach Taylor calls in a favor to his friend at Under Armour (nice product placement guys) and asks for more time in paying for the $5,000 order. The rep needs a partial payment of $3,000 so Coach whips out the family checkbook and writes a note that was probably hotter than a whore in church. When Tami asks if he forgot to write down a check in the ledger, he says yeah ... $45 for dry cleaning. He could've at least made it a couple hundred. There are a lot of numbers between 3,000 and 45. After Tami learns the truth, the couple argue in that cute Taylor way, eventually making up after he apologizes.
Poor Luke Cafferty! He's on the verge of getting his clocked cleaned by jealous Vince Howard. Luke is doing everything he can to show the coaches how badly he needs football. He's offense, he's defense, the cheerleader, the mascot and he probably paints the stripes back on the field after each game. Apparently Vince knows nothing about football because during East Dillon's second game, Luke was on his way to scoring the team's only touchdown and Vince misses a block on purpose. Rewind: In pretty much all teeny-bopper football movies, this is how the star player becomes paralyzed. Vince still manages to score a TD after a botched punt, but he'd better watch how he talks to Coach Taylor. That ass chewing Coach gave him was the maddest I've ever seen him. I don't know if his face can get any redder than that.
And finally ... Buddy Garrity's paranoia gets the best of him and he admits to the G.O.B (Good Ol' Boosters) that he did, indeed, tell Coach Taylor about the mailbox. "I put it there, I can do whatever I want with it," he yells. I could not believe it when he told off Joe McCoy, calling him a "cancer" to the Panther team. "You need to polish that ring of yours. It's lookin' a bit tarnished," he quips. I knew it was just a matter of time before Buddy left the fold to follow Coach Taylor. He knows what Eric can do with a football program. (Do you guys mind if I call him Eric?)
I'm really enjoying all the characters they are introducing. Jess, Landry's soon-to-be love interest, is fun to watch and is the complete opposite of Tyra and Lyla. I'm warming up to Luke Cafferty, too. He was a little prick in the first episode, but now that I know his story, I can empathize with him. I was loving Vince on day one, even if his attitude stinks. By bringing in all these new faces, they are trying to distract us from the actors that are about to leave (prep your Kleenex for next week). I appreciate the writers for trying to soften the blow.
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