Friday Night Lights Trivia

1. Eric tells his daughter, "Marriage requires maturity. Marriage requires two people that will listen, really listen to each other. Marriage, most of all, requires ____." What does marriage most require, according to Coach Eric Taylor?

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights": A Model Marriage

Answer: compromise

Eric gives this speech to his daughter after she decides to become engaged to Matt Saracen. The irony of the speech is that Eric is, at the moment, struggling to compromise in his own marriage. Tami wants to take a new job in another state, after years of supporting Eric in his career, but he seems unwilling to move. Eventually, however, he decides to support her in the pursuit of her dream.

From Quiz Friday Night Lights

Answer: Eric Taylor

Coach Eric Taylor is tough but fair. He works hard to ensure that his Dillon Panthers are a great football team. He is a wonderful husband and father too!

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights" Characters: Season 1

Answer: Taylor & Eric Taylor & Coach Taylor & Eric & Coach Eric

Through a series of interviews and radio programs, we learn that Coach Taylor has been with the Panthers for six years, but this is his first season as the head coach. Additionally, we are told that Jason Street, the star quarterback, has been coached by Taylor since he was a little boy. Everyone in Dillon, Texas is clearly excited about the upcoming football season, making is clear that football is of utmost importance to Dillon. In addition to all the optimistic comments the coaches, players, and spectators are making about the team's future, there are plenty of undercurrents that imply that the town won't tolerate not winning. Because of this, it is obvious that that both the players and Coach Taylor are under a lot of pressure to have a winning season. Despite these pressures, the team goes on to win state, and Coach Taylor accepts a position as quarterback coach at TMU for the following year.

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights": A Model Marriage

Answer: It's my turn, babe.

Tami is offered a prestigious job as Dean of Admissions at Braemore College. Coach Taylor is initially reluctant to leave his home state of Texas and his new opportunity to be head coach of the newly combined East Dillon High and West Dillon High football team. "It's my turn, babe," Tami tells him. "I have loved you and you have loved me and we have compromised, both of us...for your job. And now it's time to talk about doing that for my job."

From Quiz Friday Night Lights

Answer: Tami Taylor

She is Coach Taylor's wife and the high school counselor too.

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights" Characters: Season 1

Answer: Lyla Garrity

Lyla Garrity is one of the most popular kids at the Dillon high school. She's dating the star quarterback, Jason Street, and they are planning to have a long life together. However, when the high school finds out that Lyla was unfaithful to Jason with fellow Panther teammate Tim Riggins, she becomes a social pariah. She even considers quitting cheerleading, because her teammates antagonize her. Jason eventually forgives her, and she regains her social position at high school. The two have a short-lived engagement, which ends when Lyla discovers Jason kissing another girl.

From Quiz Friday Night Lights

Answer: Julie Taylor

Julie Taylor is the daughter of Tami and Eric.

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Answer: Jason Street

Poor Jason gets hurt and ends up in a wheelchair.

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights" Characters: Season 1

Answer: Tyra Collette

Tyra Collette is a girl who has been allowed to run wild. She seems to be a good person, but her mother's abusive partners and negligence have made her independent too early. She dates Tim Riggins at the beginning of the football season, but breaks up with him because he starts ignoring her. Tyra shoplifts some lip gloss that Julie Taylor admired, and she becomes promiscuous. Conner, an investment banker checking out Dillon oil wells, attracts her interest, and she dates him even knowing that he's leaving the next day. Tyra makes an effort to improve her grades near the end of the football season, and Landry - who has always admired her from afar - offers to help her out. One night when Landry has car trouble and misses their meeting, Tyra is sexually assaulted by a man who followed her out of a restaurant.

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights": A Model Marriage

Answer: Volleyball

When Eric is given the job of athletic director to help make up for a discrepancy in his coaching salary, he has a run in with the volleyball coach. This results in him needing a new coach. Who does he recruit? His lovely wife Tami, of course. Tami's willingness (however reluctant) to bail out her husband is one of the many examples of the support they lend one another throughout their marriage.

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Answer: Tim Riggins

Tim Riggins has a rough home life and sometimes makes poor decisions in his life. At heart though, he is a really good guy. He's not hard to look at either.

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights": A Model Marriage

Answer: TMU QB Coach

Tami insists Eric shouldn't give up his dreams even though she doesn't want to leave Dillon. Consequently, Coach Taylor moves to Austin by himself to work as TMU's QB Coach. But after their baby Gracie is born, the distance puts a strain on their family and marriage, and Eric eventually quits to be near them. Through some machinations of Buddy Garritty, he is able to regain his old job as the coach of the Panthers.

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Answer: Lyla Garrity

Oh, Lyla! How could she cheat on Jason with Tim Riggins? But then again, how could she not?

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights" Characters: Season 1

Answer: Julie Taylor

Julie Taylor is the daughter of Eric and Tami Taylor. She is portrayed as a sweet girl who has disgust for the football mania that grips Dillon (a disgust shared by Tyra). However, this is most likely because her father is the football coach than any problem with the game itself. After a few bumbling attempts to attract Julie's attention, Matt winds up at Julie's dance production, and he eventually gets her to agree to date him. The two double date with Smash and his girlfriend, who is impressed that Matt will accompany Julie to performing art events (theater, dance, etc.) Matt and Julie are still dating at the end of the football season.

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights": A Model Marriage

Answer: It has his and hers closets

"His and hers closets, baby!" Tami exclaims in the pilot episode. She cuts out the advertisement for the house, and Eric jokingly tells her to "relent." Homebuying is later a source of tension for the couple when Tami wants a house Eric doesn't feel they can afford. He fears their ability to make the payments if one of them were to lose a job. He honestly confesses that, as much as he would "love to give" her the house, he wouldn't be able to sleep at night if they bought it. She tells him she doesn't need the house; she just wanted them to discuss it and make the decision together.

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Answer: Tyra Collette

Tyra Collette is another Dillon High student who doesn't have the best home life. She is very smart but has a hard time focusing in school because she often worries about her mother.

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights" Characters: Season 1

Answer: Tim Riggins

Tim Riggins is the Dillon Panther fullback with potential. He's a solid football player, and he manages to pass his classes by the skin of his teeth. However, Tim always has a drink in his hand when he's not on the football field. For a period of time Tim sobered up, and he almost single-handedly won the homecoming game. Also, when his grades slipped a little and he got a tutor, Tim got a good grade on his English paper. These events show that Tim is an intelligent person with a natural talent for football, and that, with a little work, he could be so much better than he currently is. Tim is also promiscuous; in the course of the football season he's been romantically linked with Tyra, Lyla, Jackie (his neighbor), and others. Both he and his brother Billy have been deeply affected by their father's leaving; much of Tim's behavior probably stems from this abandonment.

From Quiz Friday Night Lights

Answer: Buddy Garrity

Buddy meant well but sometimes created a lot of drama and headaches for Coach Taylor.

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights": A Model Marriage

Answer: After the state championship game

Tami learns she's pregnant before the big 2006 Texas High School State Championship game, but she waits until after the game to tell Eric. They had already agreed he was going to accept the job at TMU, and he offers to quit when she tells him he's pregnant, saying, "Football is not the most important thing in the world." Tami, however, insists he follow his dreams and take the job while she stays behind in Dillon with Julie and the baby.

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Answer: Landry Clark

Landry was a great guy and turned out to be a decent football player too!

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights" Characters: Season 1

Answer: Jason Street

Jason Street, star quarterback for the Dillon Panthers, breaks his neck in the first football game of the season while trying to keep the opposing team from scoring a touchdown. The town of Dillon is horrified, but the concern about finding a replacement quarterback for the Panthers is just as strong as it is for Jason's wellbeing. Jason loses function completely from the waist down, and only has partial control of his arms. His parents, unable to pay for medical and rehabilitation costs, sue the Coach Taylor (the matter is eventually settled out of court). Jason is devastated by the news that he will never walk again, until his new roommate introduces him to the sport of quad rugby, also known as murderball. Jason tries out for the U.S. quad rugby team, but does not make the cut. He then accepts a position as an assistant coach at Dillon, and helps Matt Saracen lead the team to victory at State.

From Quiz Friday Night Lights

Answer: Matt Saracen

Matt Saracen had huge shoes to fill when Jason Street was injured. He definitely rose to the challenge!

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights" Characters: Season 1

Answer: Landry Clarke

Landry Clarke is introduced into the show as a secondary character. He does not play football (in this season), and he is primarily known as Matt Saracen's best friend. However, his role in the show grows as the season progresses. He help Tim Riggins write a book report on "Of Mice and Men" and he volunteers to help Tyra with her algebra out of infatuation. However, when Tyra is attacked, she begins to rely on him and the two become closer. He's also seen yelling at Coach Taylor during the Powderpuff football game when Taylor objects to a call against Julie. By the beginning of the second season, his dry wit and helpfulness have made him a central character.

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights": A Model Marriage

Answer: Shelly

Shelley Hayes helps Tami by babysitting Gracie in Season 2, but she also frequently teases Coach Taylor, saying that she makes more as a preschool teacher than he does coaching.

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights": A Model Marriage

Answer: two

Eric and Tami's daughter is a freshman in high school when the show begins, but they soon have a second child, Gracie Belle.

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights": A Model Marriage

Answer: His hat

When Eric sits down with her in a booth at a restaurant, she asks, "Sweetheart, would you take your hat off at the table, please?" Like the southern gentleman he is, he dutifully complies with her request.

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights": A Model Marriage

Answer: Glenn Reed

Glenn is a teacher at Dillon High who forms a friendship with Tami and helps her out while Eric is away at TMU. Tami and Eric end up having to have a heart to heart about what is really bothering Eric, which is that he feels they have drifted apart. "I'm the one you're supposed to be yucking it up with," he tells her.

From Quiz "Friday Night Lights": A Model Marriage

Answer: The co-worker tells him

Coach Taylor was right to be wary of Tami's co-worker Glenn. While Tami's intentions were harmless, his were not. Glenn misreads their friendship and in a drunken moment after happy hour, he plants an unsuspecting kiss on her. Tami roundly rebuffs him, but she doesn't tell Eric what happened. Glenn, assuming she has told him, apologizes to him for the kiss. Because Eric is secure in his relationship with his wife, he handles the apology with forced calm, and he isn't angry with Tami for not telling him. In fact, Glenn becomes a running joke in their household. Once, when Eric has to cancel a date with Tami, she teases that she'll ask Glenn to take his place. He simply responds, "Make sure he doesn't drink all my scotch."

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