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Friday Night Lights · Season 1, Episode 16

“Black Eyes & Broken Hearts” quotes from Friday Night Lights

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“Black Eyes & Broken Hearts” · Season 1, Episode 16

In this episode: Tami Taylor (3), Coach Taylor (2), Tim Riggins (1), Julie (1), Smash Williams (1), Mama Williams (1)

CTCoach Taylor

Listen to me. Everything hangs in the balance right here. I have a question and I need some advice from you.

Alright.

CTCoach Taylor

I need to talk to the guidance counselor, not my wife. I need some unbiased, clear, honest advice. Everything hangs in the balance.

Alright, sit down. Come on, sit down.

CTCoach Taylor

The Boosters and Buddy want me to fire Mac McGill. I don't wanna fire Mac McGill. Mac McGill is a damn good coach and Mac McGill is important for me in the playoffs. I thought this was going to end a while ago, I didn't think it would go on as far as it did, I was wrong.

So what's the question?

CTCoach Taylor

The question is what do I do about firing Mac McGill?

What did he say?

CTCoach Taylor

Honey, you heard what he said. Everyone heard what he said.

I know, I know what he said. I want to review, let's review. Let's review the events.

CTCoach Taylor

About Smash Williams he said the black players have a gift for running the ball. That they're fearless.

Right. Fearless, they've got a gift. Wasn't there something else in that little phrase?

CTCoach Taylor

He said the thing about the junkyard dog thing, as far as the players like Matt Saracen.

You mean the white players?

CTCoach Taylor

Yes, the white players. He said they don't have the physicality. But he said they have more creative thinking which makes them more suited to lead. That's what he said. It was a stupid thing to say. I understand.

Well, I mean, as the guidance counselor I gotta say that that, to me, is a fireable offense. What he said.

CTCoach Taylor

Alright let me talk to my wife. Let me talk to the person who cares about me and cares about the team, and also has to understand the relevance and the importance to our future of us winning the regional.

There is nothing more clear to me that your team is way more important to you then Mac McGill.

CTCoach Taylor

Is there anyone else I can talk to?

You can talk to your friend.

CTCoach Taylor

What does she have to say?

This is not about Mac McGill, it's not about the team. This is about you. You've been put in this position now where you've got to make the decision. If you don't fire him at this point you are condoning what he said.

CTCoach Taylor

Honey he said something stupid, he's not a racist. He's a friend.

I know, but that is not something for a kids' assistant coach to say. No less for a government employee, which is what he is.

CTCoach Taylor

The three of you scare me.

What do you do?

JPJV Player

Uh, okay, I know this.

Too late, play's over. You waited too long to make a decision and now we lost the game 'cause of you. We're not going to State and the whole town of Dillon hates you. You're never gonna get laid your entire life. Fact.

[about being friends with Tyra] Ok, so, first you don't want me dating Matt Saracen, now you're picking my friends for me, so maybe you guys should just....home school me.

Honey, I don't like your tone, I don't like your sarcasm, and I really don't understand what you see in hanging out with this girl. She's been suspended from school three times. Do you realize that? One time for drinking on campus.

You quitting football to try and make a point about racism in a small Texas town, that ain't the "Million Man March" You are seventeen and you got a brilliant future ahead of you and I'm not gonna sit here and watch you throw it away trying to teach a lesson to a bunch of fools. You know how you get back at people that think like Mac McGill. You get back on that team. You play like the star that you are and you get recruited by an A-list University, go on and get your degree. Now you get up from here, get you something to eat, get your butt in the bed 'cause you're going to that game tomorrow.

What about everybody who said they weren't gonna play?

You a leader honey, they'll follow you.

CTCoach Taylor

How long we gonna sit out here?

A little bit longer.

CTCoach Taylor

All the other parents have picked up their perps, why can't we pick up ours?

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