The Television version of Boobie Miles on Friday Night Lights, Brian “Smash” Williams was arguably the talent of the Dillon Panthers, and the one who transformed his swagger to confidence (not easy to do) and was one of our favorites to watch on the program. Last we heard, Williams did success after a horrible injury to make it to Texas A&M, and though we suspect he never would have made it to the NFL, somehow Smash will land on his feet…maybe as a surgeon in Seattle.



The Bullet Points:
TV Show Appeared:
Friday Night Lights (2006-11)

Actor:
Gaius Charles

Position Portrayed:
Running Back

Played for:
Dillon Panthers

Why you should vote for him:
There should be some “Boobie Miles” residue here.

Why you should not vote for him:
The show had a long run, but only a devoted audience. Most people never saw this performance.  

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We admit we are reaching on this one. Bo Duke (John Schneider) was the main driver of the General Lee on the Dukes of Hazzard, but it was implied that he raced professionally at various points in the series and the reunion shows. Should it count? We will let you decide.

On another tangent, this allows us to wonder aloud that Cooter (the only man who appeared to own a garage in Hazzard County) had to be the richest man in town as every week the police wrecked their cars chasing around the Duke boys.  



The Bullet Points:
TV Show Appeared:
The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985)

Actor:
John Schneider

Position Portrayed:
Driver of the General Lee and a driver on the stock car circuit

Why you should vote for him:
He was pretty much undefeated against the Hazzard police.

Why you should not vote for him:
We never saw him race professionally did we?

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Maybe this film didn’t go all the way. Everybody’s All American showcased Dennis Quaid as Gavin Grey as a superstar Running Back at LSU who had life by the balls and was the proverbial “Big Man on Campus”. He would go on to have a decent pro career, though we would slowly watch him go from college superstar, to solid pro, to a has-been longing for the past. The football scenes in the film were decent, so there is no issue here with that, but as much as we love Quaid in films about athletes, we equally detest him when he tries to put on an accent of any kind. The book in which the film is based on has the lead character commit suicide over the depression over losing who he was. With the current climate of football, perhaps this is where the film should have gone, and take it to the conclusion it was probably meant to go. A sad ending is better than the non-committed one it had.

We know there were no actual football scenes in the Revenge of the Nerds movies, but the clear rivals in this film was the Adams College Football team VS the incoming geeks of the institution.   The heroes may have been the geeks, but you couldn’t help but want to party with (regardless of whether you were cool or not) with Ogre, the monosyllabic linebacker who hated nerds (though he wasn’t sure why) and drank a lot of beer. Perhaps that is why at the end of the sequel Ogre, became joined Lambda Lambda Lambda and became one of the “good guys”, and also no matter what other gruff role Donald Gibb had, he would always be “Ogre” to most of us.