--- title: Friday Night Lights Reunion Photo: Scott Porter description: Scott Porter, who played Jason Street on Friday Night Lights, posted a photo of a reunion with his former castmates. canonical: https://time.com/4054154/friday-night-lights-reunion-porter-charles-lauria/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-29T17:44:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:22.558Z og:title: These 'Friday Night Lights' Stars Reunited And It Was Amazing og:description: Clear eyes, full hearts, can't keep it together og:url: https://time.com/4054154/friday-night-lights-reunion-porter-charles-lauria/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These 'Friday Night Lights' Stars Reunited And It Was Amazing twitter:description: Clear eyes, full hearts, can't keep it together twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These _Friday Night Lights_ Stars Reunited and It Was Beautiful  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 29, 2015 5:44 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 29, 2015 5:44 PM UTC The unbreakable bond between the Panther football players was the heart and soul behind the beloved fictional world of _Friday Night Lights_. So it should greatly please every FNL fan to see that some of those friendships stretched beyond Dillon, Texas, and are still going strong today. [Scott Porter](https://instagram.com/skittishkid/), who played Jason Street on the show, [welcomed his first child](http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/scott-porter-welcomes-baby-son-mccoy-lee-porter-wife-first-pic-2015245) with wife Kelsey Mayfield in May this year. On Tuesday, Porter posted an Instagram of himself kissing the top of his son McCoy’s head while fellow FNL actors [Matt Lauria](https://instagram.com/MattLauria/) and [Gaius Charles](https://instagram.com/GaiusCharles/) stood smiling with their arms around him. Lauria and Charles portrayed characters Luke Cafferty and Brian ‘Smash’ Williams, respectively, on the acclaimed television drama. “‘Good friends…livin’ large in Texas’…and babies. #TexasForever,” Porter captioned the photo, alluding to one of the most well-known quotes from the show. Coach Taylor would certainly approve. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4054154/friday-night-lights-reunion-porter-charles-lauria/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4054154/friday-night-lights-reunion-porter-charles-lauria/"},"headline":"These Friday Night Lights Stars Reunited and It Was Beautiful","datePublished":"2015-09-29T17:44:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:22.558Z","description":"Clear eyes, full hearts, all the tears","url":"https://time.com/4054154/friday-night-lights-reunion-porter-charles-lauria/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Instagram","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4054154/friday-night-lights-reunion-porter-charles-lauria/","name":"These Friday Night Lights Stars Reunited and It Was Beautiful"}}]}] ```