Laboring. What an understatement as the title of this ep, when everyone is working and struggling. It‘s the second-to-last episode of season 4 ... and hits more emotional highs and lows than ever before. And some brilliant work by the cast, particularly Taylor Kitsch.Rowr! There‘s lots of canine and claw-flashing around the big game next week between the Lions and Panthers. The Panthers staff is using a magnifying glass to inspect the Lions‘ crappy field, and they have a point about a huge pothole being dangerous. Coach Taylor vows that the field will be fixed for the game, and gets his slave labor team to put down sod. Since the Lions can‘t practice, Landry gets the brilliant idea to sneak onto Hermann Field and seed it with toothpicks so the Panthers can‘t practice either. The shot of them all hunched over in the dark on that beautiful field that elicits so many fond (and harsh) memories of our boys with the Panthers is pretty rich. It‘s sheer labor, but also for the Panthers, who take two hours to remove them.
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