Friday Night Lights (open)

Since this happens to be one of my favorite TV shows, I decided to make a thread about the players and their off- and on field actions.


IC:

Troy "T-D" Daniels,Jr.
6'3
205 pounds
Black hair
Brown eyes
Muscular
Wide Reciver

The Sam Houston Texans were 5-0 heading into tonight's rivalry game against Dallas Central High.The stands were packed with fans and college recruiters itching to get their hands on the next Vince Young or Reggie Bush.

Background:
Troy is the son of "TD" Daniels Sr, the record holder for touchdowns at Sam Houston Troy has been playing football all of his life, and lives in his father's shadow.He is a hot commidity and is a bit of a ladies man.

I pulled up to the locker room grabbing my bag from the backseat and pressing the alarm.I walked into the locker room where the speakers were pumping over the stereo system.I placed my bag on top of my locker and procceded to get dressed.

#9 Johnny Saira

OOC: Hey, I love the show and the movie that spawned it as well! I hope you don't mind that I join...
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Johnny Saira
5'9"
169 lbs.
Asian male with jet black hair and dark brown eyes
3rd-string quarterback, place-kick holder
SBA President; Captain of the Speech & Debate Team
His divorced mother works long hours as a graveyeard-shift police dispatcher, so he usually rushes home as soon as he can to take care of his two younger brothers (ages 14 and 6). He works a part-time job at the local Fast Food place, working only when his mother is home to watch the kids.

IC:

Flashback to the beginning of the school year... Inside the team's locker room.

"Come on, coach, give me a chance. I know I can make the team. I don't care if I'm on the bench, I just need to get on the team."

"Well, you can't kick, and you can't punt. What do you think you're gonna do on the field?" the coach asked, the exasperation in his voice masked only by the sympathy in his heart.

"I'll do whatever it takes, Coach," I said, with all the earnest belief I could muster. "I can win some games for you Coach -- I know I can..."

"Listen, son," the Coach sighed. "You're just too small. You'll get crushed out there. There's a reason why there aren't a lot of Asian football players, son... I know you worked hard during camp, but you're just too small. And I'm not even talking about you playing quarterback, I mean you're too small to be on this team -- period."

Just then, someone came into the locker room. The coach ushered me into his office and closed the door.

"Listen, I'll put you in as third string quarterback, and if you play your cards right, I'll let you take the snap from center for field goals and extra points. Now, that's about as much as I can do for you, alright?"

"Thank you, Coach!" I stuttered, shaking the man's hand vigorously. "I won't let you down, I promise!"

"No, you won't," the Coach said sternly. I could only smile back as he tossed me my jersey... My football team jersey.

Aria

Hope it's okay if I join. If not let me know. I think i might have fun with this, so please consider me. Just in case you're interested in me here is the part I'd like to play. Thanks!

Aria Leeyin Black

18 years old

5'3"

97lbs

Irish descent
Pale white skin splattered with freckles. Long Auburn red hair in natural ringlits. Strong catlike green eyes with specks of blue and gold with long red lashes. Short rounded but square face. Short cute pug like nose. Full pale pink lips. Petite stature. Full c-cup breasts, flat, tiny waist and and nicely rounded him.

Head cheer leader. Easy spirit. Is a nice fun-loving, determined girl. With an intelligent brain and a killer body. Competitive spirit. Prefers to be single despite the Head cheer leader type cast and though no one knows, is still a virgin.

"Look," I say to my squad, "We've got to go out there and cheer our team on. This is the most important game of the season. The whole town has turned out and I expect nothing less that the best from all of you. They need to know we are out there supporting them. Let me hear your best!" The whole sqaud cheers in excitement. "WOO" I return, "Now let's go out there and let em know were here!"

OOC: Here's my character:

IC:

Christina 'Christi' Waters
53
125 pounds
Brown hair
brown eyes
Atheletic
Cheerleader
Asian
Tan skin, petite, and well proportioned Christi's finally been accepted as on of the girls. She's the new girl on the squad and though it doesn't seem like it right now she's very outgoing. Sweet and friendly though she seems, she's got a hidden streak in her just waiting to come out.

"Yeah!" Christi shook her pom poms and follows Aria and the other girls out onto the field. She was excited, this was her first year on the squad and she wanted things to be perfect. We pumped up the crowd as everyone awaited the team's grand entrance.

Yay!

Kitteness said:

Hope it's okay if I join. If not let me know. I think i might have fun with this, so please consider me. Just in case you're interested in me here is the part I'd like to play. Thanks!

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((OOC: I didn't start the thread, but I'm sure glad you're here! Welcome aboard!

Edited to add: Welcome aboard Lust! ))

IC:
We've won 5 games this season, and it looks like we have a shot for the state championship this year. I feel funny saying "WE" since I don't get a lot of playing time. I get a lot of snaps during practice, but mostly as the "practice quarterback" aka the team's Tackling Dummy for the defense.

I jog out onto the practice field and notice the cheerleaders getting ready nearby. A few of them yell greetings at the other guys on the team, and I notice they all pay special attention to our superstars.

I shrug and try to ignore the fact that no one pays much attention to me. I guess that's to be expected since I'm usually the only one on the team with a clean uniform after the games.

I get into the team huddle, and then yell (with the rest of the team) at the break: "CLEAR EYES, FULL HEARTS, CAN'T LOSE!!!"

OOC: Thanks. ^_^

IC

Christi watches Johnny with avid interest. None of the other guys on the team, Johnny included, have ever payed her any attention. She shakes her head to stop staring at the football player. With a sigh, she returns her attention to the crowd and goes into the routine with the rest of the squad.

All Business

(OOC, welcome Christi/Lust! Also, guys I was a band nerd in high school. I really know nothing about cheer leading, but I will do my best. Any major mistakes let me know and I will fix them. Thanks!)

Aria sees the team huddle. Sees her squad distracted and wonders why she isn't? She guesses it's because she's seen it all before. A star cheerleader in a long line of cheerleaders. The jocks who truly only cared about their next win and who could control/rule the school. Nothing special. Her sister, her mother, her cousin, her aunt, all cheerleaders...She's good though, probably better than all the family members before her. JV her freshman year, and Varsity on up to now, her senior year. Still, she ponders, there are other things she loves more that her family would never accept. Maybe just maybe she can do this job and participate in her dream of becoming a lawyer as well by joining the debate club. Hmm! The new girl seems sweet, Christi, she's good too. Aria breifly wonders how put out the rest of the squad would be if she made her co-captian? Christi was good enough. Oh well, thoughts for later...

"Okay girls, I know the scenery is splendid, but we've got work to do. Not only do we have to entertain the crowd, look good for our guys, but we also have a competition in just a few short months. Let's stretch out..."

As the girls begin their stretching exercises, Aria briefly looks over to the huddle.

"CLEAR EYES, FULL HEARTS, CAN'T LOSE!!!"

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Then they break!

Aria's eyes look briefly over at the one person who could hold her heart, if only he knew...or cared. As the team turns towards the cheerleaders, Aria's eyes drop back to the task at hand and leads the girls in a light aerobics work out, and some dance moves needed in the new cheer performance they are learning.

Game One

Ron Mexico, our starting quarterback, can run a 4.1 forty-yard dash and can throw the ball from one end of the field past the goal post on the other side and out of the stadium. He's almost impossible to tackle in the open field, thanks to his instinctive elusiveness, powerful strength and breath-taking speed. If he has any weaknesses, I'd say that he buys into his own hype a bit too much, and needs to work on reading defenses a LOT more than he does. At the high school level, however, his God-given abilities more than compensate for any lack of analytical speed or acuity.

He moved to Texas from Georgia his sophomore year, where he broke all sorts of school records as a scrambling quarterback. A lot of people speculate that the local businesses contributed a lot of money to get him here. His mom got a pretty cush job at the local car dealership (who also gave her a car as a "signing bonus" when she took the job), and Ron and his mom moved into a house that is rumoured to be paid off already.

Everyone gets excited when #7 trots out on the field. We have less than ten black kids at our school, most of them female, so everyone knows who Ron Mexico is. Rumour has it that he dated all the black girls at our school (all seven of them at the same time) before school even started...

With so much invested in him, the town didn't take it very well when he went down in the first game with a couple of pairs of cleanly broken ribs on both sides of his chest. Coach told me to signal in the call for Troy "TD" Daniels, our star wide receiver, to run an end-around play. Ron shook his head and called something else in the huddle. From the formation, I knew he was going to throw the ball. I asked Coach if we should call time-out, but he shook his head, and told me that the quarterback needs to make the call in these situations. The quarterback needs to lead his team...

The other team called a deep zone, with the linebackers dropping back well past the first down markers and the defensive ends looping inside the tackles. An end around would have worked wonders, especially in TD's hands...

Instead, Ron couldn't find any open receivers for about five seconds, and then, out of frustration, threw the ball deep into triple coverage. The good news is that our punter couldn't have driven the ball that deep into enemy territory.

The bad news is that Ron threw an interception on the first play of the game, and to make matters worse, ran headlong into a charging defensive tackle with a defensive end in hot pursuit.

It took about an entire minute for people to clear out of the way so the ambulance could get onto the field to cart Ron to the hospital. Later on, we heard that eight broken ribs pretty much took him out for the season.

We somehow managed to win our first game with our second-string quarterback at the helm -- an amazing feat, since he rarely showed up to team meetings and wouldn't know what a play was until someone in the huddle explained it to him in simple words. With the news about Ron being out for the season, that moved our second-string guy up to starting quarterback and me up to second-string -- or so I thought.

Our punter, an Australian guy with years of experience playing Australian rules football, was officially moved to the second-string position in front of me during the week after the first game. I think the guy was moire surprised than I was, and definitely objected to it more than I did.

Still, the roster stayed that way all the way through our second game of the season. But that's gonna be covered in another post.

occ:

Name: David Ballway
Age: 18
Ht: 6ft
Hair:Brown
Eyes: Hazel

Info: David is nerd who can go between hanging with jocks and his fellow nerds. He is the founder of the anime club at the school.

David was in the computer lab working on a school project for his computer programming class. Tho he wouldnt say we he was poular but he was able to hang out with football team and not have to worry about them raggin on him about being a nerd.

The loner

Name: Tony Valeria
Age: 19
Height: 6'3"
Hair: Black
Eyes: Green

Info: Tony's a loner, at least, when it comes to school. He sometimes uses his imported car to participate in street races, under the pseudonym Scirocco. aside from that, he spends most of his time playing video games or drawing, usually while listening to extremely loud techno and dance music.

IC: Tony shook his head, watching the ridiculous antics of the football team. He figured most of them would probably end up with jobs with names on their shirts. Shrugging the thought off, he turned his attention back to the cheerleaders. He couldn't hear anything through the music blaring in his ears, and didn't really want to. Still, he was drawing the cheerleaders with exceptional skill in a sketchbook. Every so often, he grabbed a small can of SprayFix, which protected the drawing so it didn't smudge.

Red_Power_borg said:

David was in the computer lab working on a school project for his computer programming class. Tho he wouldnt say we he was poular but he was able to hang out with football team and not have to worry about them raggin on him about being a nerd.

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OOC: Hey, I hope it's OK for me to take some creative license regarding our characters being best friends. If not, I'll edit my post. Thanks!


I walk into the computer lab after practice looking for my best friend David. Yeah, some people find it funny that my best buddy isn't on the football team, but what can I say? We grew up together, but we just had different approaches to life.

We were both ambitious, but I was obviously more outward and aggressive in my pursuit of success. Despite that, I always thought he would be a billionaire some day after he invents some computer doo-dad that cures both cancer and premenstrual syndrome...

Besides, we live near each other and since I don't have a car, we ride to school together in his old boat of a beater. He usually gives me LOTS of advice on love and the opposite sex, even though neither of us has ever had a girlfriend before.

"Hey, Dave," I say as I enter the computer room, knowing full well that he's in there somewhere. "Are you ready to go?"

"Yes just give me one second"David said as he saved the program to the flashdrive that was plugged into the computer before turnign the system off and heading to his friend"How was pratice"he said

Ooc: (I'll put in an IC post later)
Name: Mike 'Brick' Meunez
Height: 5'11
Weight: 185 pounds
Right Gaurd

Appearance: Tanned, athletic, and handsome to a certain extent, Mike is close friends with a good amount of ladies in school. His weight is well distributed through his body, and he has seemingly broken the 'short, stocky, and heavy' sterotype of a typical gaurd. Commonly found in the weight room, Mike is diligent when it comes to lifting, and is dedicated to simply becoming stronger, faster, and more reliable.

Clothing: When not in a team jersey, he often wears jeans and a white T-shirt. He also wears a varsity jacket, but above his name is his older brothers, a favor his mother did for him. He dresses simply, and that suits him. One thing he is always seen wearing is a Native American arrowhead on a chain which perpetually hangs from his neck. When asked about it, he grinned and stated: "Its my lucky charm."

Personality: Quick-witted and humble, Mike is quite familar with the library as well as the weight room. He is funny when he decides to actually speak up, as he is more of a 'Strong and Silent' type. He prefers to listen rather than talk, and as such has become very popular with the coach, who has never recieved back-talk from Mike once.

Style: Mike uses his body weight and strength in order to stalemate the person in front of him, and invented the 'Ballistic missle' tactic. The closest opposing player is Mike's target, and he will follow his target untill he gets a new target. Thinking in a calculating, in depth manner, Mike judges the biggest threats on the field at the begining of the game, and keeps a firm eye on them unless the've been taken care of.

David + Christi?

Red_Power_borg said:

"Yes just give me one second"David said as he saved the program to the flashdrive that was plugged into the computer before turnign the system off and heading to his friend"How was pratice"he said

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"Practice was practice," I reply, following my friend to the parking lot. "Hey, your girl Christi was out practicing with the other cheerleaders today. Are you gonna take her to the alumni barbecue on Homecoming?"

I've been egging David to ask Christi out, ever since he made the mistake of telling me that he thinks that Christi is cute (right after I told him that I think the Coach's daughter is really pretty). There's nothing that David can tell me that will convince me that he doesn't have the hots for Christi, either. I bust out laughing at the look he gives me afterwards.

"Awww... David and Christi, sitting in a tree... K-I-S-sumthin'=sumthin'-sumthin'-T..." I say in a teasing, sing-song manner.

Yeah, I know... What are friends for, huh?

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"Practice was practice," I reply, following my friend to the parking lot. "Hey, your girl Christi was out practicing with the other cheerleaders today. Are you gonna take her to the alumni barbecue on Homecoming?"

I've been egging David to ask Christi out, ever since he made the mistake of telling me that he thinks that Christi is cute (right after I told him that I think the Coach's daughter is really pretty). There's nothing that David can tell me that will convince me that he doesn't have the hots for Christi, either. I bust out laughing at the look he gives me afterwards.

"Awww... David and Christi, sitting in a tree... K-I-S-sumthin'=sumthin'-sumthin'-T..." I say in a teasing, sing-song manner.

Yeah, I know... What are friends for, huh?

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"Hey you two. Did I hear my name?" Christi poked her head in with a smile, holding a couple of books to her chest. She wore her cheerleader uniform still as she looked from David to Johnny.

Christi, for her part, stands there with a look of complete confusion on her face. "Its going..." Her voice trails off as Johnny darts out the door. Shrugging she sets her books down and looks up at David. "So ummm...you...you wanted to talk to me?" She tucks a strand of hair back in place.

"Um Yeah I know that you dont have date for the Alumni BBQ for the Homecoming and I was wonderign if you give me the honor of excorting you there and then to the dance"David said to Christi. David was bit shy when it came to girls what nerd or geek wouldnt be with a crush on a cheerleader

Red_Power_borg said:

"Um Yeah I know that you dont have date for the Alumni BBQ for the Homecoming and I was wonderign if you give me the honor of excorting you there and then to the dance"David said to Christi. David was bit shy when it came to girls what nerd or geek wouldnt be with a crush on a cheerleader

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"Sure. I'd like that." Christi smiles, her brown eyes dancing. She leans in and gives David a kiss on the cheek. "What time can I expect you?"

David blushed when Christi kissed his cheek"Um well 7ish sincce the bbq is at 730 followed by the dance. Tho I know you have to go buya gown get your hair and make up done as well"he said as his looks into her brown eyes through his glasses.

Red_Power_borg said:

David blushed when Christi kissed his cheek"Um well 7ish sincce the bbq is at 730 followed by the dance. Tho I know you have to go buya gown get your hair and make up done as well"he said as his looks into her brown eyes through his glasses.

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She giggles softly. "I can do everything excpet hair and make up beforehand."

"Well would you like to go out tonight and go something"David asked as he admired her body in that cheerleader outfit."I know its school night and all but it could give us a chance to get to know each other a lil better"he adds

Red_Power_borg said:

"Well would you like to go out tonight and go something"David asked as he admired her body in that cheerleader outfit."I know its school night and all but it could give us a chance to get to know each other a lil better"he adds

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"Okay." She says brightly. "Where would you like to go?"

"I was thinking the Ole Mill since its nice and quiet there and seclude and I have the key to the gate"he said to her as he found the key a few monthes back while hiking, the Ole Mill was paper making mill that closed down do to the resession of the late 99 early 2000.