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** Jason Street — Talented and beloved player with a promising career [[spoiler:before he becomes paralysed]], dating possibly the only nice cheerleader in school, who is also his coach's daughter, and still rallies school spirit whilst becoming humble.

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* DramaticSpineInjury: In the pilot episode, Jason Street suffers a debilitating spinal injury after taking a brutal tackle in the first football game of the season, leaving him permanently paralyzed from the waist down and his dreams of getting a college football scholarship shattered. His arc over the course of the show until his departure is trying to figure out what direction he wants his life to go in while not letting his injury define him.

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The series has completed its broadcast on both Direct TV and network television and been released on DVD. Starting with the third season, it was subject to an unusual licensing agreement where each season would be exclusive to Direct TV for the fall, and then aired on Creator/{{NBC}} the following spring.

Now has a [[Characters/FridayNightLights Character Sheet]]. Show it some love.

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The series has completed its broadcast on both Direct TV and network television and been was released on DVD. Starting with the third season, it was subject to an unusual licensing agreement where each season would be exclusive to Direct TV for the fall, and then aired on Creator/{{NBC}} the following spring.

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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Pretty much every named character on any team Coach Taylor heads over. They frequently get distracted by [[WeAreStrugglingTogether inter-player beefs]], their own personal lives and shady recruiters unfoundedly inflating their egoes, but they are all ''damn'' good players, meaning that if Coach Taylor wants them to work together cohesively he has to RaceAgainstTheClock every episode to fix his players' problem of the week before the next BigGame. Of course, Coach Taylor tries to avoid making them feel like automatons that exist only to play football for Dillon like Buddy Garrity does in the early seasons, as he's all too well aware that that would blow up in his face over time.



* ButICantBePregnant: Tami: And so Gracie Belle Taylor was born. {{GenderFlip}}ped with [[spoiler:Jason Street]], who likewise thought ''he'' was infertile.

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* ButICantBePregnant: Tami: And so Gracie Belle Taylor was born. {{GenderFlip}}ped with [[spoiler:Jason Street]], who likewise thought ''he'' was infertile.infertile due to his lower-body paralysis.
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* IntimateLotionApplication: In "Last Days of Summer", Tyra and Landry are talking by the pool when she suddenly asks him if he could put sun lotion on her back. The request leaves him dumbstruck for a moment, before awkwardly doing the task. He later confesses to Saracen that he felt very self-conscious about it, and wonders if she was flirting with him.

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** Characters including [[spoiler:Hastings, Stan Traub, Devin, Jamarcus, Epyck]] are set up for storylines that either never materialise, fizzle out quickly or end abruptly without resolution.
** The second season was truncated by the writers' strike, with only some of its arcs briefly resolved in flashback.

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** %%** Characters including [[spoiler:Hastings, Stan Traub, Devin, Jamarcus, Epyck]] are set up for storylines that either never materialise, fizzle out quickly or end abruptly without resolution.
** %%** The second season was truncated by the writers' strike, with only some of its arcs briefly resolved in flashback.



* AccidentalMisnaming: Type E, Coach Taylor [[RunningGag calls Landry ''Lance'']] more often then not
* AmbiguouslyGay: Hastings during the fifth season [[http://www.afterelton.com/tv/2010/12/friday-night-lights-gay-football-player?page=0,0 according to this article.]]
* ArtisticLicenseSports: Like anyone watching cares about the football, anyway.
* AutobotsRockOut: Whenever the team is about to turn the tide, the electric guitars start up.

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* AccidentalMisnaming: Type E, Coach Taylor [[RunningGag calls Landry ''Lance'']] more often then not
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AmbiguouslyGay: Hastings during the fifth season [[http://www.afterelton.com/tv/2010/12/friday-night-lights-gay-football-player?page=0,0 according to this article.]]
* %%* ArtisticLicenseSports: Like anyone watching cares about the football, anyway.
* %%* AutobotsRockOut: Whenever the team is about to turn the tide, the electric guitars start up.



* BigGame: Because Dillon is fanatic about football, EVERY game is a BigGame.

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* %%* BigGame: Because Dillon is fanatic about football, EVERY game is a BigGame.



* ButICantBePregnant: Tami: And so Gracie Belle Taylor was born. Later sorta-{{GenderFlip}}ped with [[spoiler:Jason Street]], who likewise thought ''he'' was infertile.
* BoringFailureHero: Unlike the football powerhouse Panthers, the Lions stink. They're almost always guaranteed a loss on any given game, but the trick is spotting how much fight they give on any given game.
** However, this is later spectacularly averted. [[spoiler: The Lions manage to defeat the Panthers and deny them the path to the playoffs they assumed was theirs.]]
*** In season five [[spoiler: it pretty much becomes InvincibleHero; the Lions decide they want to go to State, and apparently nothing can slow them down.]]
* BreakTheCutie: So much.
* BreakTheHaughty: Buddy Garrity. And most people in-universe and out tend to believe that it was much-needed.

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* ButICantBePregnant: Tami: And so Gracie Belle Taylor was born. Later sorta-{{GenderFlip}}ped {{GenderFlip}}ped with [[spoiler:Jason Street]], who likewise thought ''he'' was infertile.
* BoringFailureHero: Unlike the football powerhouse Panthers, the Lions stink. They're almost always guaranteed a loss on any given game, but the trick is spotting how much fight they give on any given game.
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game. However, this is later spectacularly averted. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The Lions manage to defeat the Panthers and deny them the path to the playoffs they assumed was theirs.]] In season five [[spoiler: it pretty much becomes InvincibleHero; the Lions decide they want to go to State, and apparently nothing can slow them down.]]
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* %%* BreakTheHaughty: Buddy Garrity. And most people in-universe and out tend to believe that it was much-needed.



* ChildrenRaiseYou: Coach Taylor has a speech about this, saying he learns as much from his players as they do from him.

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* %%* ChildrenRaiseYou: Coach Taylor has a speech about this, saying he learns as much from his players as they do from him.



* {{Deconstruction}} Just like the book and the film, the series highlights several of the negative aspects of a small town's obsession with their high school football team.
* DisappearedDad: Smash Williams (dead), Matt Saracen (in Iraq), Tim and Billy Riggins (Corpus Christi), Becky Sproles (on the road), Santiago (deported), Vince Howard (in jail).
* DownToTheLastPlay: With the twist that, since there's more than just one BigGame, sometimes they ''actually lose''. Generally, games that don't come DownToTheLastPlay are only mentioned offscreen.

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* %%* {{Deconstruction}} Just like the book and the film, the series highlights several of the negative aspects of a small town's obsession with their high school football team.
* %%* DisappearedDad: Smash Williams (dead), Matt Saracen (in Iraq), Tim and Billy Riggins (Corpus Christi), Becky Sproles (on the road), Santiago (deported), Vince Howard (in jail).
* %%* DownToTheLastPlay: With the twist that, since there's more than just one BigGame, sometimes they ''actually lose''. Generally, games that don't come DownToTheLastPlay are only mentioned offscreen.



* DyingTown: Dillon.
* DysfunctionJunction: The Garritys, the Rigginses, the Saracens, the Howards, the Sproleses…
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first few episodes, Smash and Tim have a mutual hatred for each other that is non-existent in the rest of the show.
* [[EarnYourHappyEnding Earn Your Happy Marriage]]: The Taylors may be the only non-dysfunctional married couple in Dillon, and the show lets us know just how much work goes into maintaining that balance.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Kind of the whole point of the show.

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* %%* DyingTown: Dillon.
* %%* DysfunctionJunction: The Garritys, the Rigginses, the Saracens, the Howards, the Sproleses…
* %%* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first few episodes, Smash and Tim have a mutual hatred for each other that is non-existent in the rest of the show.
* %%* [[EarnYourHappyEnding Earn Your Happy Marriage]]: The Taylors may be the only non-dysfunctional married couple in Dillon, and the show lets us know just how much work goes into maintaining that balance.
* %%* EarnYourHappyEnding: Kind of the whole point of the show.



* FaceHeelTurn: JD between seasons 3 and 4.
** HeelFaceTurn: In season 4, the Panthers were portrayed as JerkJocks and elitists to contrast with the ragtag and working class Lions. In season 5 , JD and his father disappeared and the Panthers became more sympathetic, so that the Lion's unsportsmanlike trouncing of them would come across as morally ambiguous rather than justified retribution
* AFatherToHisMen: Non-military, but Coach Taylor qualifies easily, especially with the boys from broken families.

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* %%* FaceHeelTurn: JD between seasons 3 and 4.
** HeelFaceTurn: In season 4, the Panthers were portrayed as JerkJocks and elitists to contrast with the ragtag and working class Lions. In season 5 , JD and his father disappeared and the Panthers became more sympathetic, so that the Lion's unsportsmanlike trouncing of them would come across as morally ambiguous rather than justified retribution
* AFatherToHisMen: Non-military, but Coach Taylor qualifies easily, especially with the boys from broken families.
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* GladToBeAliveSex: Tyra and Landry after her [[spoiler:would-be-rapist's murder.]]
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler:Subverted. Becky goes through with hers in Season 4,]] and because this trope seems to be the mindset of most of Dillon, [[spoiler:Tami is fired from her job as principal for supporting her choice.]]

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* %%* GladToBeAliveSex: Tyra and Landry after her [[spoiler:would-be-rapist's murder.]]
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler:Subverted. Becky Subverted. [[spoiler:Becky goes through with hers in Season 4,]] and because this trope seems to be the mindset of most of Dillon, [[spoiler:Tami is fired from her job as principal for supporting her choice.]]



* HeelFaceTurn: In season 4, the Panthers were portrayed as JerkJocks and elitists to contrast with the ragtag and working class Lions. In season 5 , JD and his father disappeared and the Panthers became more sympathetic, so that the Lion's unsportsmanlike trouncing of them would come across as morally ambiguous rather than justified retribution
%%* AFatherToHisMen: Non-military, but Coach Taylor qualifies easily, especially with the boys from broken families.



* HospitalHottie: Carlotta.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Jason Street, in the accident that starts off the series. [[spoiler:Eventually he manages to get his happy ending, though, happily married with a son and job as a sports agent.]]

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* %%* HospitalHottie: Carlotta.
* %%* ICouldaBeenAContender: Jason Street, in the accident that starts off the series. [[spoiler:Eventually he manages to get his happy ending, though, happily married with a son and job as a sports agent.]]



* {{Jerkass}}: Joe [=McCoy=]. So much. His son JD doesn't start out this way, but becomes one in Season 4.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tim Riggins.
* JitterCam: And oops-gotta-refocus-cam.
* KarmaHoudini: Julie got grounded every other episode, but it never seemed to stop her from going wherever and doing whatever she wanted. All she had to do was cry a little bit and her parents completely let up.

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* %%* {{Jerkass}}: Joe [=McCoy=]. So much. His son JD doesn't start out this way, but becomes one in Season 4.
* %%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tim Riggins.
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* MissingMom: Matt Saracen's in Oklahoma.

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* %%* MissingMom: Matt Saracen's in Oklahoma.



* NewOldFlame: Tami's high school ex-boyfriend, played by director Peter Berg. And so the jealous male bitchfest commenced.

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* %%* NewOldFlame: Tami's high school ex-boyfriend, played by director Peter Berg. And so the jealous male bitchfest commenced.



* Theatre/OedipusRex: Matt Saracen has his distant Dad stationed in Iraq. Tim Riggins's father left, leaving him in the care of his brother. Both come back to live with their kid for a few episodes, and neither ends well.



* OpposingSportsTeam: A nastily racist team is the Panthers' opponent at the end of a racism-based two-parter plot, who then attempt to sic cops on one of the Panthers' black players for a brawl ''they'd'' instigated. In a more typical and unintentionally hilarious example, the other finalist team in "State," having recruited the talented not-a-team-player Tatum, appear to offer Smash some kind of DealWithTheDevil to join them, or something.
** Oddly enough, the Panthers themselves become one in seasons 4 and 5 once the focus switches to the Lions.
* PapaWolf: Coach Taylor, not just to Julie but to his team too.

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A nastily racist team is the Panthers' opponent at the end of a racism-based two-parter plot, who then attempt to sic cops on one of the Panthers' black players for a brawl ''they'd'' instigated. In a more typical and unintentionally hilarious example, the other finalist team in "State," having recruited the talented not-a-team-player Tatum, appear to offer Smash some kind of DealWithTheDevil to join them, or something.
** Oddly enough, the The Panthers themselves become one in seasons 4 and 5 once the focus switches to the Lions.
* %%* PapaWolf: Coach Taylor, not just to Julie but to his team too.



* PortmanteauCoupleName: Invoked ''in-show'' with "The Waverlash."

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* %%* PortmanteauCoupleName: Invoked ''in-show'' with "The Waverlash."



* ProductPlacement: the LocalHangout is an Applebee's, for starters. If you're charitable, it's both realistic and a subtle commentary on rural corporatization as well as a blatant money-maker.
** Under Armour, anyone?
* PromotionToParent: Tim's equally-shiftless brother Billy is still an improvement over their dad.
* PutMeInCoach

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* ProductPlacement: the The LocalHangout is an Applebee's, for starters. If you're charitable, it's It's both realistic and a subtle commentary on rural corporatization as well as a blatant money-maker.
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* %%* PromotionToParent: Tim's equally-shiftless brother Billy is still an improvement over their dad.
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** and to a lesser extent, Matt Saracen — originally QB 2, and many doubted his abilities as a leader upon promotion because of his sweet personality. However, he proved to be both a commanding leader of the team with skills improving through S1, and a good leader among friends.

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** and to a lesser extent, Matt Saracen — originally QB 2, and many doubted his abilities as a leader upon promotion because of his sweet personality. However, he proved to be both a commanding leader of the team with skills improving through S1, and a good leader among friends.



* ResetButton: pressed at the beginning of Seasons Two and Four, each following a SeriesFauxnale.
* TheRival: Smash to Tim in the early episodes of Season 1, Voodoo to Matt and Smash in Season 1, and J.D. to Matt in Season 3. [[spoiler: The Lions to the Panthers in the last two seasons]]

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* %%* ResetButton: pressed at the beginning of Seasons Two and Four, each following a SeriesFauxnale.
* %%* TheRival: Smash to Tim in the early episodes of Season 1, Voodoo to Matt and Smash in Season 1, and J.D. to Matt in Season 3. [[spoiler: The Lions to the Panthers in the last two seasons]]



* RousingSpeech: Before every game, and sometimes afterwards, unless Coach is really pissed.
* RunningGag: Maybe Coach ''honestly'' thinks Landry's name is "Lance."

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* %%* RousingSpeech: Before every game, and sometimes afterwards, unless Coach is really pissed.
* %%* RunningGag: Maybe Coach ''honestly'' thinks Landry's name is "Lance."



* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Averted with Grandma Saracen. She's old and has some outbursts, but she might be one of the most polite characters on the show, always offering food to Coach Taylor when he comes to visit. Played straight with [[TheWoobie Landry]] however.

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* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Averted with Grandma Saracen. She's old and has some outbursts, but she might be one of the most polite characters on the show, always offering food to Coach Taylor when he comes to visit. Played straight with [[TheWoobie Landry]] however.



** "State," Season 1, in which [[spoiler:the Panthers win State, Tami discovers she's pregnant again, and it ends on Coach standing before the Panthers in the fieldhouse, the TMU decision suddenly not definitive]], and

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** "State," Season 1, in which [[spoiler:the Panthers win State, Tami discovers she's pregnant again, and it ends on Coach standing before the Panthers in the fieldhouse, the TMU decision suddenly not definitive]], anddefinitive]].



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* SeriousBusiness: TruthInTelevision: American football is ''serious business''.
** Except in Texas, where it's more serious than SeriousBusiness.
** To those not familiar with high school football culture in rural areas, especially Texas, the series may seem like its a parody. However the series (and the movie before it) is based on a ''non-fiction'' book of the same name which chronicled one season of a high school football team in Odessa, TX. If anything the series underplays the seriousness with which the town takes its high school football team.

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** To those not familiar with high school football culture in rural areas, especially Texas, the series may seem like its a parody. However the series (and the movie before it) is based on a ''non-fiction'' book of the same name which chronicled one season of a high school football team in Odessa, TX. If anything the series underplays the seriousness with which the town takes its high school football team.
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* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Smash likes to talk about himself in The Third Person.

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* TeamMom / TeamDad: One of the more literal versions of this trope when it comes to Tami and Eric. See also AFatherToHisMen
* TeamSpirit: Football's a team sport, as it turns out.
* TheirFirstTime: The first season episode "I Think We Should Have Sex" (talk about it) and the third season episode "It Ain't Easy Being J.D. [=McCoy=]" (actually did it).
* TimeSkip: between seasons, as the show's internal timeline is linked to the football season. Most noticeably between the second and the third season, with the former cut short by the writers' strike.
* TroubledButCute: Tim Riggins.
* TrueCompanions: Forged in the third episode of the series with The Panthers. [[spoiler: A new set is forged during Coach Taylor's time at the Lions.]]
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Vince fights this successfully in the fourth season.

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* %%* TheirFirstTime: The first season episode "I Think We Should Have Sex" (talk about it) and the third season episode "It Ain't Easy Being J.D. [=McCoy=]" (actually did it).
* %%* TimeSkip: between seasons, as the show's internal timeline is linked to the football season. Most noticeably between the second and the third season, with the former cut short by the writers' strike.
* %%* TroubledButCute: Tim Riggins.
* %%* TrueCompanions: Forged in the third episode of the series with The Panthers. [[spoiler: A new set is forged during Coach Taylor's time at the Lions.]]
* %%* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Vince fights this successfully in the fourth season.



* UnderdogsNeverLose: Played straight, contrary to the movie. But between seasons two and three, it was apparently averted offscreen.
* UndisclosedFunds: First season: The lawsuit is seeking undisclosed funds; it gets a counteroffer of undisclosed funds; it's ultimately settled for undisclosed funds.

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* %%* UnderdogsNeverLose: Played straight, contrary to the movie. But between seasons two and three, it was apparently averted offscreen.
* UndisclosedFunds: First season: The Jason Street's lawsuit against Eric is seeking undisclosed funds; it gets a counteroffer of undisclosed funds; it's ultimately settled for undisclosed funds.



* UnnecessaryRoughness: It's football, what did you expect?
* VerySpecialEpisode: The Very Special Two-Parter "Blinders"/"Black Eyes & Broken Hearts" is triggered by an offhand racist remark by a coach involving an analogy to a "junkyard dog."

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* %%* UnnecessaryRoughness: It's football, what did you expect?
* VerySpecialEpisode: The Very Special Two-Parter "Blinders"/"Black Eyes & Broken Hearts" is triggered by an offhand racist remark by a coach Mac involving [[OpenMouthInsertFoot an analogy to a "junkyard dog."]]"



* WellDoneSonGuy: Joe [=McCoy=] to J.D. whom he never fails to remind of his failures.

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* %%* WellDoneSonGuy: Joe [=McCoy=] to J.D. whom he never fails to remind of his failures.



* WhereAreTheyNow: The final episode ends [[spoiler: showing us the fates of the characters eight months after the East Dillon Lions' final game]].

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* %%* WhereAreTheyNow: The final episode ends [[spoiler: showing us the fates of the characters eight months after the East Dillon Lions' final game]].
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** The East Dillon Lions are no more, but they end their final season with a state championship. Some of the Lions including Vince Howard, Buddy Garrett Jr., and Dallas Tinker are folded into a new Panthers super team.

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** The East Dillon Lions are no more, but they end their final season with a state championship. Some of the Lions including Vince Howard, Buddy Garrett Garrity Jr., and Dallas Tinker are folded into a new Panthers super team.
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* BittersweetEnding: The series finale.

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* BittersweetEnding: The series finale.finale, and it leans more to the sweet side.
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*** Buddy has also taken possession of the [[TakeThat! golf cart]] Joe McCoy was using.
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* BittersweetEnding: The series finale.
** The East Dillon Lions are no more, but they end their final season with a state championship. Some of the Lions including Vince Howard, Buddy Garrett Jr., and Dallas Tinker are folded into a new Panthers super team.
** Save for Julie, the Taylors move to Philadelphia where Tami lands her dream job as a Dean of Admissions, while Eric continues to coach high school football, albeit without the same pageantry back in Texas.
*** Julie accepts Matt Saracen’s marriage proposal and the two live happily together in Chicago.
** Having mended their brotherhood, Tim and Billy Riggins build a house together. The latter is a Panthers coach and he and Mindy are about to have twins. It’s [[AmbiguousSituation possible that Tim and Tyra could wind up together some day.]]
** It’s implied Vince’s relationship with his father could get better. His relationship status with Jess is left up in the air since [[ButNowIMustGo she moved to Dallas]]. She is also an assistant football coach there, having broken through the gender barrier to do so.
** Buddy Garrity is head of the Panthers booster club again, and he intends to make the Panthers an organization Eric Taylor would be proud of.
*** Buddy has also taken possession of the [[TakeThat! golf cart]] Joe McCoy was using.
** Luke Cafferty joins the Army, but he leaves his state title ring with Becky, which likely means she’ll wait for him.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Tim Riggins is the powerhouse running back/fullback for the Dillon Panthers. He also always jumps in whenever there is a skirmish on or off the field, his powerful build (partially due to DawsonCasting) making him capable of laying out his opponents. However, in the handful of situations where he clashes with grown men, he gets his ass absolutely handed to him, because realistically, Tim is strong and powerful for a ''sixteen year old'', but not capable of successfully beating fully grown men.

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* OverprotectiveDad: If your [=QB1=] had designs on your daughter, you'd probably be a bit wary, too.
** Mostly subverted with Eric Taylor because Tami will put him in his place before he becomes the OverprotectiveDad.
-->'''Eric:''' Ima have me a Matt chat.
-->'''Tami:''' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments That sounds like a truly horrible idea.]]
** However, do not visit his daughter at his home when you made her a pariah at college while he is making a tricycle for his three year-old. [[SugarWiki/MomentofAwesome He will run you out, using the pink handlebars like a baseball bat.]]
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* FiveManBand:
** The Panthers:
*** TheHero: Smash
*** TheLancer: Tim
*** TheSmartGuy: Matt
*** TheBigGuy: Bradley
*** TheChick: Jason/Landry
*** SixthRanger: JD [=McCoy=]
** The Lions:
*** TheHero: Vince
*** TheLancer: Luke
*** TheSmartGuy: Landry
*** TheBigGuy: Tinker
*** TheChick: Jess
*** SixthRanger: Hastings
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Tim Riggins is a the powerhouse running back/fullback for the Dillon Panthers. He's also the one who is always jump in whenever there is a skirmish on and off the field, his powerful build (partially due to DawsonCasting) making him capable of laying out any opponents in his own age range, on and off the field. However, in the handful of situations where he clashes with grown men, he gets his ass absolutely handed to him, because realistically, Tim is strong and powerful for a ''sixteen year old'', but not capable of successfully beating fully grown men.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Tim Riggins is a the powerhouse running back/fullback for the Dillon Panthers. He's He also the one who is always jump jumps in whenever there is a skirmish on and or off the field, his powerful build (partially due to DawsonCasting) making him capable of laying out any opponents in his own age range, on and off the field.opponents. However, in the handful of situations where he clashes with grown men, he gets his ass absolutely handed to him, because realistically, Tim is strong and powerful for a ''sixteen year old'', but not capable of successfully beating fully grown men.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Tim Riggins is the Heavy for the Dillon Panthers (partially due to DawsonCasting), capable of laying out any opponents in his own age range, on and off the field. However, in the handful of situations where he clashes with grown men, he gets his ass absolutely handed to him, because realistically, Tim is strong and powerful for a ''sixteen year old'', but not capable of successfully beating fully grown men.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Tim Riggins is a the Heavy powerhouse running back/fullback for the Dillon Panthers Panthers. He's also the one who is always jump in whenever there is a skirmish on and off the field, his powerful build (partially due to DawsonCasting), DawsonCasting) making him capable of laying out any opponents in his own age range, on and off the field. However, in the handful of situations where he clashes with grown men, he gets his ass absolutely handed to him, because realistically, Tim is strong and powerful for a ''sixteen year old'', but not capable of successfully beating fully grown men.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Tim Riggins is the Heavy for the Dillon Panthers (partially due to DawsonCasting), capable of laying out any opponents in his own age range, on and off the field. However, in the handful of situations where he clashes with grown men, he gets his ass absolutely handed to him, because realistically, Tim is strong and powerful for a ''sixteen year old'', but not capable of successfully beating fully grown men.
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* TeoTimingWithTheBestie: Jason Street and Lyla Garrity are a long-time couple, planning to marry once Jason finishes college and is recruited to the NFL. When Jason is permanently paralyzed from the neck down by a freak accident during a game, Lyla and Jason's best friend, Tim Riggins, spend a lot of time together trying to figure out how to cope with Street's injuries and help him feel better. This eventually leads to sex. Jason discovers their duplicity when he sees them kissing from the window of his hospital room.

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* TeoTimingWithTheBestie: TwoTimingWithTheBestie: Jason Street and Lyla Garrity are a long-time couple, planning to marry once Jason finishes college and is recruited to the NFL. When Jason is permanently paralyzed from the neck down by a freak accident during a game, Lyla and Jason's best friend, Tim Riggins, spend a lot of time together trying to figure out how to cope with Street's injuries and help him feel better. This eventually leads to sex. Jason discovers their duplicity when he sees them kissing from the window of his hospital room.

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