I’m not really anti-spectator sports (meaning I love to read about baseball in novel form, and I don’t mind that spectator sports exist, I just don’t care to watch them) but I do have limited patience for football culture especially–it seems to magnify a lot of what I find unattractive about US society. So why watch this show all about high school football in Texas? Because the characters made me fall in love with them, broke my heart and keep me coming back for more.