Television Without Pity » Friday Night Lights » Blinders: Mac will. Not. Let. It. Drop. and angrily asks Coach 'So you're telling me you think Matt Saracen has as much natural ability...' but Coach cuts him off, 'What I am saying' -- here Mac might take some pointers in the art of allowing or not allowing people to put words in his mouth -- 'is that it's not smart to make generalizations about people based on their color. Think about that.' Mac, looking down, says 'Alright, alright' but then says that what's done is done and no apology is going to change that. Coach screws up his face and leans in a bit, 'I'm not making' a request,' turns on a dime and leaves. Wow, that one was almost as hott as Tim's 'let's go' with the added bonus of being an ethical statement. You know you're in your thirties when you can get hot and bothered about a man doing the right thing.

Mac is issuing an apology that is basically an "apology" of the most expected sort. He says all the Panther players contribute to the team regardless of color (did he ever insinuate that they didn't? No, this is the red herring portion of the apology), that his comments were not intended to hurt anybody (this is the four-year-old "But, Mom! I didn't mean to!" portion of the apology), and that he apologizes if those comments did hurt anybody (aaand, I guess this is the date rape defense portion of the apology.), and then that's it.