Kansas City Chiefs as ‘Friday Night Lights’ characters
By Matt Conner
We asked ourselves a very important question: What if you had to cast the TV show ‘Friday Night Lights’ with Kansas City Chiefs?
From the incredible music/theme by Explosions in the Sky to the terrific characters that were always relatable to the memorable slogans like “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose,” the TV series Friday Night Lights still stands as one of the greatest TV shows in television history. The series featured Emmy wins for acting (Kyle Chandler) and writing, and has also been listed on several “Greatest TV Shows Ever” lists (e.g. Rolling Stone put it at No. 24 all-time).
But this column isn’t about Friday Night Lights alone. If you’ve not already seen it, let’s just say that you need to remedy that problem soon (Amazon Prime). For our purposes, we’re going to assume you are fans of the show. We’re also going to assume you’re a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs. And it’s here at this intersection of fandom that we found ourselves perplexed with a very, very important question:
If the show Friday Night Lights were cast by the Kansas City Chiefs, past or present, who would play each character?
Once I started thinking about it, I couldn’t stop. Some parallels were eerie, while it was quite difficult to link some others. Unfortunately, the lack of women in football or even associated with the team kept me from casting some really important characters from the TV series. Still I’ve been obsessed enough to at least create the following associations. This is not exhaustive by any means, but here we go: