Tim Riggins is the fullback of the Dillon Panthers.

Tim is best known as (formerly) the best friend of Jason Street, who fell in love with Jason's girlfriend, Lyla Garrity, and had an affair with her shortly after Jason was paralyzed from the waist down.

Despite a lengthy, bitter rift between himself and Jason over this liaison, the two have reconnected and remain close. Bonding over beers on a memorable night on the football field toward the end of the year appeared to seal the rekindled friendship between Tim and Jason... or at least a cease-fire.

Sullen and morose, and with a penchant for drinking, yet very serious when it comes to football, Riggins is the silent backbone of the Dillon Panthers football team.

The ex-girlfriend of Tyra Collette, he has difficulty with schoolwork and there is a suggestion that he may be illiterate. Tim Riggins lives with his older brother Billy after their parents skipped out on them.

Towards the end of the season, he befriends his neighbor, a single mother with a young son who becomes his biggest fan. Tim begins a relationship with the mother while remaining the idol of her son, Bo.

Tim Riggins Quotes

Let's touch God this time boys. Let's touch God.

Tim Riggins

Good friends liven large in Texas. Texas forever, Street.

Tim
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Friday Night Lights Quotes

"When Jason Street went down the first game of the season, everybody wrote us off. Everybody. And yet here we are at the championship game. Forty thousand people out there have also written us off. But there are a few out there who still believe in you."

Eric Taylor

We will all at some time in our lives, fall. Life is so very fragile, we are all vulnerable, and we will all at some point in our lives, fall, we will all fall.
We must carry this in our hearts, that what we have is special, that it can be taken from us, and that when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will all be tested.
It is these times, it is this pain, that allows us to look inside ourselves.

Eric Taylor

Friday Night Lights Music

  Song Artist
Muzzle of Bees Wilco iTunes
Song Evergreen The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Song Bang a Gong (Get it On) T. Rex