Clear Eyes. Full Hearts. Can't lose!

I know that the 3 or 4 of you that read this blog aren't really into TV or sports for that matter, but if anyone comes across this and you, a) loves sports and b) love dramas that deal with teenage angst, you should check out Friday Night Lights.

On a tip from my buddy Nicolo, I'm through 4 discs of the Season 1 DVD set. As my writer-idol Bill Simmons puts it, "It's the best sports-related show ever made."

Combine the story of a town whose sole identity revolves around their high school football team, the teenage angst from The O.C., brilliantly developed characters (such as the lovable loser backup quarterback, always a crowd favorite), compelling plot lines (which includes the football player-cheerleader versus everybody-else theme, a quadrapoligic rugby team on their way to the Beijing Paralymics, an awesome episode examining the stereotypical, super athletic black athelete and their more cerebral white counterparts that just oozes with racial tension and teenage celibacy) and, on top of that, excellent acting and you've got the elements of high drama.

Riggs, Street & The Smash

Lyla Garrity

Reading Sports Guy's article about FNL, it's sad to think that this show will ultimately face the ax due to the writer's strike and/or lackluster ratings. Both are unacceptable reasons to cancel a show, but NBC hurt itself by airing this show on difficult nights (who watches TV on Friday nights?). They'd be losing a gem of a show. I'm not even a huge football fan. I'd even rank it 3rd or 4th on the "watchability scale" behind baseball, basketball and/or tennis.

Please support this show. Netflix the first season or better yet, buy the DVD set. Or even if you're not a sports fan, it's worth it.

All this makes this show my newest, favoritest (it's a word) show of the early year...that is, until Lost comes back this Thursday!

We have to go back, Kate!

Up Next: my iiinteresting first day of Intro to Chemistry at Bergen Community College.