<![CDATA[Deadspin: friday night lights]]> http://tags.deadspin.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/deadspin.com.png <![CDATA[Deadspin: friday night lights]]> http://deadspin.com/tag/fridaynightlights http://deadspin.com/tag/fridaynightlights <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> Despite the pleas of Bill Simmons, we've never watched "Friday Night Lights." We're not sure why; maybe we just have too much television in our lives already. Anyway, the show's ratings still aren't improving, and if the writers ever get back to work, the show is expected to be canceled by NBC. But fret not: ESPN could save the day!

Radar Online reports that ESPN is considering picking the program up for next season.

Is Friday Night Lights, NBC's critically acclaimed, little-watched high school football drama, headed to ESPN? According to a source familiar with the proceedings, the self-proclaimed "World-wide Leader in Sports" is in talks to bring the flagging Texas-based show into its original programming stable.

Our favorite part of the story is the quote from an ESPN spokesperson: "Grumblings about sports shows being aired on ESPN are common." Hey, don't we know it.

Friday Night Lights To Move To ESPN? [Radar Online]

]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=322547&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Nothing's Scarier Than Texas High School Football]]> It's about that time of day when we remind you just how terrifying Texas high school football is. This is from Southlake Carroll High School near Dallas/Ft. Worth, where certain fans camped out all night just to pay $90 seat licenses (that doesn't even count the tickets) for four high school football games. And it's not just that: Most of them are actually trying to get tickets for years from now.

Many of these fans are trying to get season tickets now because they're afraid they won't be able to get them when their kids finally get to high school. "My son's only going to be in seventh grade," said one. "I have one that's in second grade," said another. The kids of one fan are in pre-school.

The door is just about to open, but the sad fact is, if you want season tickets to Soutlake Carroll it's almost like someone has to move away or die. There are only 92 available this season. Most of these people won't get one.

It was totally like this for tickets to our scholastic bowl games in high school.

Fans Line Up For Southlake Carroll Tickets [Dallas News]

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