James Van Der Beek wrote his ‘Varsity Blues’ script notes with the accent

NFL.com has posted a comprehensive oral history of the making of Varsity Blues. It’s amazing. It’s exhaustive. But this is the most important takeaway of all:

PHONETIC TEXAS ACCENT. You remember the speech in question, of course:

But seeing it literally spelled out, with phonetic pronunciation ... for the first time ever, yes: we do waont this lahf.

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.