Bye Bye Beautiful
Zach Gilford says goodbye to Friday Night Lights and I missed his farewell barcrawl
Spoiler alert for all you Friday Night Lights fans: Bona-fide man meat, outdoorsman and potential love-of-my-life Zach Gilford has left Texas.
Gilford lived in Austin for the past four years, playing bashful quarterback Matt Saracen on the critically-acclaimed show that presents an authentic look at life in a small football-obsessed town.
A recent interview with New York Magazine made my adoration for Gilford expand past my appreciation for his obvious physical attributes. He made T-shirts for his avidly self-promoted farewell bar crawl, complete with a map of the venues and directions to the closest hospital. Any fellow proponent of theme parties and/or accompanying tees is worth stalking. Had I known earlier, I might have made the hop to Austin and searched him out on 6th Street.
DirecTVers already know, but those who have to wait to watch the show on NBC should expect a ton of new faces in Season Four as Gilford departs in what has been described as "a particularly juicy good-bye arc." (Sadly, it won't be shown on the broadcast network until next summer).
Gilford can be seen in Dare, an indie film — about get this, a high schooler struggling with his own identity — costarring Emmy Rossum that opened a couple of weeks ago in a limited release.
It appears the Northwestern grad (swoon) is destined for bigger and better things, but I'll keep my fingers crossed he comes back for a Texas game or two.
