“Friday Night Lights” Creator Asks Mitt Romney to Stop Using the “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts” Slogan
“Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, America Can’t Lose” emerged as a Romney slogan this week. Of course, fans of Friday Night Lights recognize it as an adaptation of the slogan for the Dillon Panthers. Mitt Romney is apparently a big fan of the show (no word on his stance on Gossip Girls). Peter Berg, one of the show’s creators, was not happy with his show’s slogan being tied to the Romney campaign, so he fired off a letter.
“The only relevant comparison that I see between your campaign and “Friday Night Lights” is in the character of Buddy Garrity — who turned his back on American car manufacturers selling imported cars from Japan.”
A unique occurrence here, someone from Hollywood complaining about a Republican candidate using their slogan or song.
[photo via caller.com]
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October 12th, 2012 at 3:32 PM
was the phrase first used in the show or in the book and movie? basically, i want buzz bissinger to piss and moan about something else like usual
October 12th, 2012 at 3:33 PM
Godddddddddddddddddddddddd that show sucked.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:33 PM
Steaks for dinner tonight
SUCK IT
October 12th, 2012 at 3:34 PM
/high-five
//buys mole a case of beer
October 12th, 2012 at 3:34 PM
or whatever you drink
October 12th, 2012 at 3:35 PM
Just in the show. And most would be surprised to learn that Bissinger is actually supporting Romney.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:35 PM
Should have gone with a pic of Mrs. Coach.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:36 PM
And Romney will rightfully tell him to go spit.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:36 PM
I figured him to be a Biden supporter. Both like to yell and act crazy.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:36 PM
Godddddddddddddddddddddddd that show sucked.
the book was a great book. The movie was a so-so movie. I just couldn’t do the series, but I kept hearing how good it was. I made it through half the first year, then quit in frustration at the football parts.
I heard in year two that some of the characters killed a drifter or molester or something, and then that part of the show never got brought up again.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:37 PM
I heard Bissinger had a meltdown and endorsed Romney this week (no, really).
I am pretty sure it’s not in the book, the book is a gritty portrayal of kids trying to make it, and that slogan is a little too pansy-ass for Bissinger to write about or windswept Odessa to adopt. I mean, really. It sounds like a girl came up with it while playing with her Rainbow Brite dolls. Probably all the New York liberals who watch the show and think it’s what West Texas is about think it’s true, though.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:37 PM
I watched the first two and a half seasons.
How a show is praised for realism yet is about Texas football and there’s not a single fat character is beyond me. Horrible acting and Minka Kelly has genital herpes.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:37 PM
Sounds like college football to me.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:39 PM
Coach Taylor was even worse with clock management than Andy Reid.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:40 PM
Tell Peter Berg to Shadddddup.
Bill Berg > Peter Berg
October 12th, 2012 at 3:40 PM
Horrible acting and Minka Kelly has genital herpes.
Cankles!
/Clown
October 12th, 2012 at 3:40 PM
I take it back, it sounds like something the Care Bears would say before they launch all that rainbow shit from their chests.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:41 PM
People forget how great that book was ’cause the movie wasn’t and the tv show was for chicks.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:42 PM
I made it seven episodes in on Netflix, but couldn’t get past how Dillon High’s actual wins exceeded their pythagorean wins so greatly.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:43 PM
Never saw the show. Never saw the movie. Never read the book. Never been to Midland or Odessa.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:43 PM
fun fact, he was in that documentary “the greatest movie ever sold” and his scenes show him doing research for the “Battleship” movie. several copies of the board game are strewn about his desk. not only did i not know research was needed for that movie, but that research turned the game of naval strategy into an alien invasion movie.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:44 PM
To enjoy the show, and I know it sounds crazy, you kind of have to give up on it being about HS Football.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:44 PM
but couldn’t get past how Dillon High’s actual wins exceeded their pythagorean wins so greatly.
I never realized what a Yankees fan you are, Lisk
October 12th, 2012 at 3:45 PM
see:
October 12th, 2012 at 3:47 PM
Sadly his blood lust wasn’t quelled then and he shot a kid in New Mexico some years later
Coach Taylor never cared much about defense and his team suffered as a result…I think they blew one team out once in an episode that had enough going on that they couldn’t waste 15 minutes with the game
October 12th, 2012 at 3:47 PM
Wonder if he’s like this in real life?
October 12th, 2012 at 3:47 PM
I made it seven episodes in on Netflix, but couldn’t get past how Dillon High’s actual wins exceeded their pythagorean wins so greatly.
exactly. They kept having to miracle early season wins when I already knew from the storyline and how they were shaping it up that they went to State Finals. At least beat up on somebody. It can’t take a miracle every week.
I specifically made it to an episode where a hotshot hurricane Katrina refugee QB had a dad who needed to be paid for his kid to play. In West Texas. Then I stopped.
Mostly, people who loved that show didn’t like sports. Excepting Cap Rooney, of course.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:47 PM
Moleman batting a consistent 1000 in hating all things popular
/Never saw FNL either
//Don’t tell me it’s about football when it’s just a chick show
///GTFO
October 12th, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Lisk, this post is not nearly as sexy as the header pictures would make one think.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Yeah those mad popular shows that get relegated to the DirecTV channel.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:49 PM
fun fact, he was in that documentary “the greatest movie ever sold” and his scenes show him doing research for the “Battleship
see, I would say a fun Peter Berg fact was that he WAS the Great White Hype in the movie The Great White Hype.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:49 PM
I actually gave it a chance, a very long chance, because of the word of several people on here. Y’all were wrong. Dead wrong.
Though I wouldn’t have the appreciation of Todd on Breaking Bad had I not watched it so thanks for that at least.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:49 PM
I’m not sure why I continue to check both Thebiglead AND Deadspin anymore.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:50 PM
It was popular with the cool crowd. Not the 55 year old CSI watching grandmas, Who unfortunately makes up a large chunk of tv viewers.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:50 PM
New York liberals are not aware that East Texas and West Texas are distinctly separate hemispheres of Hell.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:51 PM
Moleman hates things that are internet popular, such as Community and sneezing pandas
October 12th, 2012 at 3:51 PM
So I hate what’s popular, Kaiser hates ethnic minorities in the Weimar Republic, we all hate something.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:51 PM
Sneezing pandas are adorable.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:52 PM
That character has the makings of a great addition to the show: the meathead who turns out to be a lot savvier than Walt.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:52 PM
Razor – Why?
October 12th, 2012 at 3:53 PM
I hate myself.
/ Swills NyQuil-and-vodka cocktail
// Fuckhead
October 12th, 2012 at 3:53 PM
Who first came up with the Meth Damon nickname? Genius, I say.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:53 PM
It was the last post over there, too.
This doesn’t exactly seem like a Duffy lifting DS content joint though, so not a fair rip by Mr. Razor.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:54 PM
“Insert bumper sticker Political cliche here”
Bumper sticker cliche refuted
“Insert new bumper cliche sticker Political cliche here”
New bumper sticker cliche refuted
…………..
Ad infinitum until you just start calling everyone cunts.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:54 PM
Loved the show.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:55 PM
wait wait wait. you mean, every game isn’t decided on the last play?
October 12th, 2012 at 3:55 PM
I can picture the EIC fondling the banhammer as this exchange takes place.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:55 PM
Clear Jizz.
Full Testicles.
Eat a Protein Bar.
/not my best effort.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:55 PM
To be honest, I really don’t care for Europeans besides Austrians, Swiss, and all the Scandinavian countries. Rest of the continent really irritates me.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:55 PM
Beans, got no time for that devil’s mush
October 12th, 2012 at 3:55 PM
Hammer vs. Razor who ya got. I got five bucks on the clean cut white boy.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:55 PM
Deadspin posted it at 324. We posted at 330.
We posted Cheerleader Student at 1, they posted at 130.
They’ll have some first, we’ll have some first. But I don’t think the content is that similar. For today, those are the only 2 posts we’ve had that are the same.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:56 PM
and as I continued to read the comments, that’s exactly where that thought went
October 12th, 2012 at 3:56 PM
You cunt.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:56 PM
The Soundtrack was catchy….
Would make taking a dump seem heroic.
/Waits for moleman to shit all over it
October 12th, 2012 at 3:56 PM
…. that’s fair.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:56 PM
Razor – for what it’s worth, i emailed Lisk/CRM the link i saw on twitter about an hour ago. If you are that interested, i can forward you the email.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:57 PM
All hail King Teut!
October 12th, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Vaguely remember it.
Going by the internet it was probably M83 or some other sleepy nonsense that passes for rock these days.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:59 PM
/Team Andorra
//Our class once had to do a report on a European Country. I got stuck with a country smaller than Pittsburgh. Not much to work with there. Pretty mountains though.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Depends, are you the 2012 Eagles?
October 12th, 2012 at 3:59 PM
the last thing Razor heard before the banhammer sliced through the air.
/justice… is done.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Going by the internet it was probably M83 or some other sleepy nonsense that passes for rock these days.
Explosions in the Sky. So yes.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:00 PM
On behalf of the rest of the continent I would like to sincerely apologize to the fucking Nazi krouts for the irritation caused by us still existing.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:00 PM
I played a Mental Floss quiz not long ago about naming the smallest countries in Europe, and it would not accept Andorra as an answer. Pissed me off.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:01 PM
I played a Mental Floss quiz not long ago about naming the smallest countries in Europe, and it would not accept Andorra as an answer.
It better not have accepted Vatican City or Luxembourg either then. That’s bullshit.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:02 PM
Now you owe the rest of us an apology for being Canadian.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:03 PM
I don’t know if the show sucked…but it sure as shit wasn’t good enough to keep me interested after 5 shows.
Real sports > fake sports on TV > pro wrestling
October 12th, 2012 at 4:05 PM
lol @ NY liberals caring about West Texas
October 12th, 2012 at 4:06 PM
Razor – for what it’s worth, i emailed Lisk/CRM the link i saw on twitter about an hour ago. If you are that interested, i can forward you the email.
No no no – I obviously know you can’t just hastily throw something up in like 2 minutes. It was just funny because I jumped online, quickly looked at both sites, and the same story was up.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:06 PM
And a thank you for the freedom our mere presence next door provides.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:08 PM
Hulk Hogan is on line one, something about you being the bottom in his next sex tape.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:11 PM
Didn’t say they cared. Quite the opposite; they’d only use it to justify their contempt.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:12 PM
Not sure how much protection a poorly health care equipped, stupid, multiple war front opening, diabetic fatass, meth addled cunts country provides. Not shut up and buy our oil before you stroke out.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Don’t call us when China comes calling. Oh, we’d have already taken care of that in the Pacific. You’re welcome.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:14 PM
“Oh man look at all these beautiful adored people in West Texas that succeed, GOD I LOVE HAVING THEM AS A MODEL OF REAL TEXANS TO HATE!”
October 12th, 2012 at 4:17 PM
You also owe us an apology for Justin Bieber.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:17 PM
I just threw up on my own dick. Were the rights for Sigur Ros too much?
October 12th, 2012 at 4:18 PM
China is failing as a state and will have a class war within our lifetime. You keep spending $2100 per person a year fighting phantoms though slugger.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:20 PM
“All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone” might be the gayest album name of all time.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:30 PM
Does this fall under the jurisdiction of the NCAA?
October 12th, 2012 at 4:43 PM
The thing that struck me about that show is how everything revolved around sports radio. That plus the Coach’s “I care about you as a person” speeches in every episode were too much.