TGIFriday Night Lights Filming Locations
(background: i think i’ve made it clear how much i love to sleep. so, having a newborn that woke me up every three hours in the middle of the night was rough. i found myself more than once asleep sitting straight up with a baby in my arms…which translates as a safety hazard. i quickly learned that i needed to figure out a way to keep myself awake long enough to satisfy the little guy’s appetite. enter “friday night lights.”)
Just as I soon as I finished seasons 1,2 and 3 of Friday Night Lights, I convinced Doug to give the show a whirl. He’s hooked. We’re both borderline obsessed. He may deny that, but any company we’ve had over the past month has seen the pilot episode, thanks to him. He’s intent on recruiting more fans. If you’re not already a regular viewer, you really should give it a chance. If you’re a Netflix-er, you can stream the first three seasons online instantly. It’s worth your time.
If you’re not familiar with the show, you may not know that is filmed here in Austin. So besides the good old fashioned drama addiction, it’s been fun to identify local hot spots in the show…which has led to the ridiculousness of this post…
After several times of “I wonder where the Taylor’s house is” and “I bet Rig’s house is in 78704,” we decided that we had to find out where these filming locations were. Sounds like an easy task, but believe me, you’d be surprised. I’m pretty handy at the Google, but I spent more time than I care to admit searching every combination of key words to find where these two houses were. Nothing.
This weekend has been our first free, no company, no obligations weekend that we’ve had in weeks. We decided to use our time wisely…doing detective work, of course. You would be appalled at the lengths we went to in order to find these houses. We’ll suffice it to say that it involved slow-motion playback of several (many) episodes, screen shots and zooms, Google maps (street view) and the Travis Central Appraisal District website. Someone should really hire us for investigation. All that to say, we found the houses and drove by for personal gratification.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the houses…
Coach Eric and Tami Taylor
Tim Riggins
If you too would like address information, contact us (trust me, you can’t Google things like this).
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oh my word. we are completely obsessed with the show as well! we love it. i can’t believe you guys stalked the houses. hilarious. when we come visit austin we’re making you take us on a tour!
oh! so glad we’re not alone on this one.
we’d love to take you on a tour. we may start charging by then, but we’ll give you a special pass, if for no other reason than our children need to meet (and fall in love).
oh girl! We love us some FNL!! And have been HUGE fans forever! We kind of pretend that is our life, only it is not at all. I love Tammy Taylor!! And I love that show! I have to take the tour next time I am there!!!
I love that you still say “The Google” – I’m pretty handy at The Google. Still makes me laugh every time… So does Shrimps.
[...] might think I’m above this. I am not. Remember our detective work to find the Taylors’ and Tim Riggens house? Let the ridiculousness go [...]
Hi Amanda and Doug
We are visiting Austin next week and like you guys are totally obsessed with Friday Night Lights. Can you email me the names and addreses of the filming locations you have found including the houses above? Do you know which Applebees they film at? And an other locations. It would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks! Tiffany
I’m so curious where the “Taylor” house is! We live in the neighborhood where much of the filming used to take place, and have run across many of the locations, but have never found that house.
I love that we’re not the only ones absolutely enamored by the show. Five seasons won’t be enough!
Love this post! Great job on finding the houses. My sister and I live in Texas and we are wanting to travel to Austin to see these houses, as well as other film locations. Could you please e-mail me the addresses? It’d be greatly appreciated!
Great blog!
Macy
Wow! I am so impressed! I am from Kansas and my husband and I are planning a trip to Austin to tour all of the filming hot-spots for Friday Night Lights! We love the show too! I can’t seem to find your e-mail so I can ask about the addresses but if you could e-mail me at tl_pollock@hotmail.com and let me know that would be great! Awesome!! Thank you!!
Oh, and if you have any other locations, maybe from the newer seasons, that you might know of..could you let me know too??
Hilarious….This is my house that I just bought in November.
[...] from Friday Night Lights. Let me back up. Two weeks ago, I got a comment on this blog post (TGIFriday Night Lights Filming Locations) from Cathy, the new owner of the filming house. Naturally, I freaked. I emailed her [...]
Hi. Id also be interested in the addresses. Not for stalking purposes but my wife is a huge fan and we are dricing through the area next week. She would love to see them. Thank you.
I happened to pass by Ray’s BBQ, seen in FNL, today and began wondering more about filming locations. I just found your blog googling Friday Night Lights Austin locations. Are you still giving out the addresses to the houses? If so, I would love them.
Hi! A huge fan of FNL and other movies. We were lucky enough that the military stationed us for one year in San Antoinio..I have been by many of my favorite filming locations but next weekend we are heading to Austin and I would love to take some pics of some of the places in FNL! We move again in a few weeks so if you can help me out with addresses of places I would so appreciate it! By the way…looking forward to seeing your star moment in the next season!!!! Thank you!!!!
my wife and I are almost as crazy about the show as much as yall are. My wife and I are planning a 4 day vacation down March 18th- 22 just looking for their locations. If you could please help and send us their address that would be great! From one FNL fan to another, thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My daughter and I love FNL. We will be in Austin next week for an afternoon and would enjoy seeing some of the places that we have seen on the show. Any help you could give would be appreciated. Thanks so much.
Hi – We just stumbled upon your terrific blog after googling FNL filming locations. What a nice surprise! Our attention then shifted to your wonderful CA trip and photos, as well as a few of your other posts. Quite entertaining you are! Huge score on appearing in a FNL episode. We’ll be driving to Austin (from Houston) this week and would love, love, loooooooove to do some drive-bys/snap some photos of a few of the FNL filming locations. If you would kindly email the addresses/list of filming locations you’ve found via your detective work, we would greatly appreciate it! Also, congrats on the new baby
Rhett is just too cute for words!!!
Tim Riggins house has since been painted and sold.
Hi,
My girlfriend and I are coming to Austin to celebrate a big birthday for her. We are both obsessed with the show and we plan to tour as many FNL film locations as possible. Her birthday is on Friday this year, so it will be a total FNL birthday.
Many thanks!
I will be going to Austin this week and would love to drive by the Taylors house as well as any other locations. Could you please help me out! I would be so grateful.
Where is the Riggins’ house? I found the Taylor home, hooray!
[...] after some hurried planning (many thanks to here, here, here, and here) I set out to see eleven different sites. (You can check out my Google map of the tour here and [...]
Headed to Austin in November for a FNL tour– I’ve been building to-do list with stops at as many FNL locations as I can find. Any guide/suggestion you are able to send would be much appreciated! Clear Eyes…
Hey, Just finished watching the first three seasons of FNL as well. The show is great. I’ll be in Austin next weekend for the UT Austin game and would love to go see some of the FNL sights. So if you could send me the addresses of the Riggins and Taylors I would appreciate it. (oh and if you have the addresses of other sites, that would help me out, too)
Thanks!
Eric
Hello!
My husband and I live in Dallas but will be in the Austin area on Wednesday. We are HUGE Friday Night Light fans, and I was wondering if you could email me the addresses to the houses and any other FNL sights you think would be worth seeing? That would be awesome.
Thank you!!
Holly
I just got to Austin last night and I spent half of my night trying to figure out how I was going to find some of the places that FNL was filmed! If you could send me addresses for the places you know of, it would be SO greatly appreciated!!
Thank you, thank you!
Brittany
Me and friend are searching right now for the Taylor’s house but are not having luck, could you email me that address?? Thanks you, I’m a huge fan!
My husband and I are obsessed with this show!! We live in a small town football is a big deal in the hill country and love how real this show is!! I would love to go see these houses or any other info you might have about where this is filmed in the Austin area!! Also do you know if this show is still in production? I heard it was cancalled and I just refuse to believe that
Thanks again for your help,
Stacie
Did you ever find Matt’ house or Buddy’s house that they remodled? Also the Riggins house in the first season opening credits is a different house with a front porch with a refridgerator on it. Did you find it also? Thanks for sharing.
I live in Leander and love this show just found it on Netflix would love to see the homes where this was all filmed a friend of mine was at The Panthers high school when it was filming so if you could email me the locations I would love that thanks
An interesting fact not many might be aware of but Connie Britton(Tammy Taylor) and Brad Leland(Buddy Garrity) played Sharon Gaines and John Aubrey in the Friday Night Lights movie in 2004.
Huge Fan. Tryin to find the houses. Can you email the addresses? Thank you.
Hello there. I am a Brown too! I am writing to you from a suburb outside of Toronto, Ontario Canada. I was googling Friday Night Lights and somehow got to your site. My husband and I and our friends are visiting Austin in May which makes that our third trip there in a year. Can you tell that we love it there? Like you, we located some of the filming locations including the Riggins house (awesome story and pics by the way) as well as the Taylor, Saracen, Williams, Garrity and Howard residences and a lot more. This this first trip to Austin for our friends so they will be getting the grand tour of all things FNL. All four of us are huge fans. By the way is there a pool in the back of the Riggins house? In some seasons there is and in later seasons there isn’t.
We haven’t been ble to find Jason, Luke, Landry and Becky’s houses but we found Riggins plot of land which was cool! Also have you seen Jesse Plemmons band Cowboy and Indian play live? They play a lot in Austin.
Looking forward to another incredible trip to your fair city
Cheers, Lisa
Ps kudos for getting the part as an extra. I wanted to go to and be an extra at the end of season five but no one could go with me
Hi! I LOVE that you located these amazing FNL locations! I’m going to Austin in the fall and would love the addresses!!!