re: Why Friday Night Lights never became a huge hit

The best thing about this show was some of the early-ish calls on some of today's biggest "issues", and how they called it out for what it was.

The player that beat the shite out of the Caster kid pulled the fake race card, but was eventually kicked off the team for lying. Later in S1 the assistant coach gave an interview that the reporter baited him on and then spun it as racist.