Watch TV Like A Texan: Tune Into "Friday Night Lights"

Friday Night Lights is a television series adapted from a book and film of the same name. During the first three seasons the series detailed events surrounding the Dillon Panthers, a high school football team based in fictional Dillon, Texas with particular focus given to the team's coach, Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) and his family. In the fourth season Taylor took over at East Dillon High School, where he coached the Lions.

The series has consistently received a strong critical reviews. Virginia Heffernan wrote for the New York Times that "if the season is anything like the pilot, this new drama about high school football could be great — and not just television great, but great in the way of a poem or painting." The Washington Post similarly praised the series as "[e]xtraordinary in just about every conceivable way."  Bill Simmons, a former columnist for ESPN Magazine implored readers of his column in the September 24, 2007 issue to watch the show, calling it "the greatest sports-related show ever made."

But the real success of the show - in the eyes of a Texan - is the truth that the show reveals.  Real people who, despite their many mistakes, are walking out life doing the best they can with what they've been given, all the while loving God and football. Doesn't get more Texan than that.