Get your VCRs, DVRs and TiVos ready.
The “Friday Night Lights” season premiere will air Friday at 9 p.m. on NBC.
Whether you’re at Haverhill (0-4) at Andover (2-2), Tewksbury (3-1) at Methuen (2-2), Nashua North (0-5) at Londonderry (3-2) or Triton (1-3) at North Andover (2-1), there’s no excuse for not recording FNL.
Sure, high school football around here isn’t what it is in Texas. Still, the show does a great job transporting you to a place where the sport is treated like we treat Red Sox baseball.
The movie version of FNL was a semi-accurate adaptation of Buzz Bissinger’s book, but the show, while fictional and a bit melodramatic at times, better captures the spirit and true depth of the material.
“It’s pretty realistic I’d say,” Methuen receiver David Koerner said. “I think we all look up to the Texas side of football.”
Koerner, like many athletes, isn’t a big fan of most football movies and TV shows.
“I don’t like that at the end, (a team) will be be down five points then throw an 80-yard Hail Mary and win,” he said. “It’s hard to find a (good) ending. Sometimes it’s better when the team loses.”
