Texas Forever: Taylor Kitsch Won't Bring Tim Riggins Back For The 'Friday Night Lights' Reboot, Unless He Can Be A Coach Screaming At Players

We had the news break a couple months ago that Friday Night Lights is coming back as a reboot. Seems dumb, but whatever, I'm dumb. I'm going to watch the first episode to see what the hell is happening. But what we do know is there won't be any Tim Riggins: 

[Source] - If Kitsch was asked to appear in the reboot, “To bring Riggins back? No. I don’t think so,” he said.

But, he added, “Maybe. I haven’t thought about it, to be honest, but I don’t know. It’d be tough. If [Berg]  calls me and he’s like, ‘Well, you play a coach on the other side of the sideline, and I’ll shoot you for 10 seconds, and Riggins is yelling at his players or something.’ I’d probably do that,” he admitted. 

But, he’s not interested in diving “back into Riggins” to do a more in depth plot, and Berg “knows all this,” he explained. 

Not shocking. It's Friday Night Lights, but not Friday Night Lights. I don't really know why we keep getting these reboots in the same world and call it the same thing but it ends up being something completely different. We're getting it with The Office too: 

Back to Tim Riggins, a legendary character. Everyone knows Tim Riggins and it's to the point where you see Taylor Kitsch you say Tim Riggins. Granted, his character didn't make sense. He was in high school for roughly 9 years and allegedly was a sophomore when the series started? Man was going to Mexico and driving as a 15-year old. That's just Texas football, though. Not as unbelievable as Landry killing a guy, but we all knew that. 

And, hey, I get it. You can't bring back the characters in this scenario. What are they gonna be doing? Play some Sunday morning flag football and work at the burger joint still? No. I just hate how we have to call everything the same thing. Because every single person in the world will say how this isn't as good as the show (which isn't as good as the movie and then there's the book). But, you gotta bring Riggins back for this one scene. Just give him a minute of berating players on the sidelines. The way he was coached, damnit! Let him call them by their number, refuse to say their name and just yell at them.