In a nutshell, Friday Night Lights is the best, darn TV series I have ever watched and that covers watching the idiot tube for over three score and seven years, starting with Howdy Doody when he was nothing more than a freckled face dummy.

As a bona fide, homogenized and naturalized born Texan and one who has lived in the town that Dillon obviously was based on, and I don’t mean that sissified town of Odessa as some try to claim, I can only assume the writers of this little show are fellow Texans, for no way under God’s Bluebonnets could they be Yankees. These guys know their stuff. In fact, tell them JR Coleman said howdy. They must have been neighbors of mine at one time or other. I just can’t figure out which one. Two of the characters depicted on Friday Night Lights use to live just down the street from me, so I gave them a call to let them know it wasn’t me who let the cat out of the bag.

If you can’t tell by now, as Nixon liked to say before he became a well known crook,’ Let Me Be Perfectly Clear’: I am partial to this show. The characters are real, not one dimensional imaginations. The storyline fits life, at least much of life in Texas that I was exposed to. Conflicts seem natural and resolutions don’t reflect someone’s leftwing or rightwing preset dogma that they pulled out their backside. The twenty-two episodes I’ve watched have at times given my emotions a ride on the roller-coaster. Just about the time I get to liking or disliking one character, they do a flip-flop, hey, guess what – that’s real life folks! Take that to the bank!!!!

I will wrap up this here email of mine by also commending the actors. Wow and double wow! NBC, you did a great thing by putting this little shindig on the air. I don’t know how it is doing in the ratings tug-of-war, but no matter, be it no. 1 or no. 500, I just hope you have the guts to keep it there. I double dog dare you! Better than Gunsmoke or Little House on the Prarie any ole day. You got yourself a show that is better than ten Superbowls, even better than the Dallas Cowboys, if you can believe.