 It is Monday morning , and five days until the first game of the season for high school football team Dillon Panthers . While coach Eric Taylor is surveying the field , some of the players are getting ready for practice . Fullback Tim Riggins is recovering from a hangover , and his brother Billy warns him that he could be kicked off the team if he does not show . Meanwhile , second @-@ string quarterback Matt Saracen is preparing lunch for his grandmother , before his friend Landry Clarke drives him to practice . At the stadium , a television crew is conducting interviews . It is revealed that coach Taylor , who has recently been made head coach , used to coach the exceptionally gifted quarterback Jason Street . It also becomes clear that there is a deep @-@ seated conflict between Tim Riggins and the brash and loud @-@ mouthed running back Brian " Smash " Williams . Later , at the local fast food restaurant where the players regularly hang out , Landry and Matt try to approach the coach 's daughter Julie . She insists that she does not associate with football players . They assure her that Landry is not on the team and Matt gets virtually no playing time because of Street , but she still rebuffs them both . 
