Lights! Camera! Action!

For the past 3 nights the young un and I found ourselves back in one of our favorite places, Dillon, TX, to do what we do best...yell and scream at a football game. But not just any football game. This football game was the season premier of Friday Night Lights and we were just two of the many, many Dillon faithful packed into the stands on a *warm* Texas evening. Why do we do this? Two reasons:

Jesse Plemons a.k.a Landry Clark

Zach Gilford a.k.a Matt Sarecen

(okay, so I maybe I go for three reasons....)

Kyle Chandler a.k.a Coach Eric Taylor

We worked several episodes last season as extras and actually spotted ourselves in a handful of scenes. It is such a fun time and I have met some very interesting people sitting in bleachers for 8 hours at a time. There is a lot of time just spent sitting around waiting--waiting to check in, waiting for wardrobe, waiting for the camera to be re-loaded, waiting for t-shirts--and the finished product may only be 5-10 seconds. The young un loves the fact that he can earn a paycheck for banging thundersticks and jumping up and down. And they totally won him over with the free concessions (though dealing with a kid hopped up on tootsie roll pops and nerds is not a task I enjoy). Really, how often does someone get the chance to work on a TV series? We love taking a break from our "normal" lives and hanging out with the cast and crew. We love it so much we are imploring, nay, pleading with you to watch the show this season! It's a great show, but it just can't find it's niche. I may even have a little FNL trivia contest to celebrate the premier on Oct 1st (for Direct TV customers)...if you don't have Direct TV it will run on NBC in the spring. Check back if you think you know your Dillon Football!