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Here's to God and football and, ten years from now, Street, good friends livin' large in Texas. Texas forever, Street.
— Friday Night Lights • 2006
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is a teenager's whole philosophy in one breath: God, football, loyalty and a future that surely cannot go wrong. It lands so hard because the next night takes the future away, so the toast haunts the whole series. Fans quote it for friendship and small-town pride, and the later episode where Street asks Riggins what happened to it makes the line a promise the show keeps returning to.
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In context
Spoilers for Friday Night LightsShow the scene
In the pilot of Friday Night Lights, the night before the Dillon Panthers' season opener, quarterback Jason Street and fullback Tim Riggins are at a party. Riggins sketches out his plan: Street goes to the NFL, Riggins lives off one percent of the salary, and they retire to a ranch with Riggins as caretaker. Lyla Garrity mock-interviews Street and kisses him, and Riggins raises his drink to this toast. Street answers "Texas forever." The next night, tackling against Westerby High, Street is carried off the field on a stretcher.
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- Wikipedia: Pilot (Friday Night Lights)PlotReference checked
- Wikiquote: Friday Night Lights (TV series)Pilot [1.01]Reference checked
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