TED LASSO ▸ 3.06 sunflowers

sweet boys

Flirting, Lasso style

i am actually hyperventilating right now help

Thinking about Trent Crimm at the start of the show and his deeply ingrained inauthenticity... One of his first lines was 'Is this a fucking joke?'...... He's so used to things not being real. Everything's for show, for appearances.

And then he spends the day with Ted. He's not buying his whole thing at first. 'What a coincidence, the day of our interview you just happen to be visiting a local scool'. He's so suspicious. And then, at their dinner, Ted asks him 'Trent, what do you love?' and he's in shock, he doesn't have an answer,he wasn't expecting that. Considering what we now know from 3x06 as well as James Lance... About how Trent grew up feeling pressured to go into sports to fit into his father's definition of a 'real man', was gay but married a woman that didn't BELIEVE him when he came out the first time... Basically bullying the footballers he wrote about as a way to cover up for his own insecurities and lack of satisfaction with his job.... And then Ted goes and asks him 'Trent, what do you love?' How many times do you think someone even considered what HE loves, what HE wants? I'm guessing not a lot. And Ted goes on and says that his coaching is about helping the players be the best versions of themselves, regardless of wins or losses. When in Trent's entire life, being himself, let alone the best version of himself, was irrelevant.

And when Ted says that he really enjoyed spending this time with him... Trent can't wrap his head around it. His face when he asks 'You actually mean that, don't you?'. It's not just about the last thing Ted said. It's about everything Ted said, and everything Ted is.

And then, we have the article.

"Ted is out there, in the community, either bravely or stupidly facing the music." . "But if the Lasso way is wrong, I can't imagine being right." Trent lived his entire life focused on appearances, on masks, on what he was expected to do and be, for everyone else. "I can't help but root for him". He wants Ted to be right, he wants his father to be wrong, he wants to believe that who he is matters more than society's idea of what he should be.

Trent's whole world is so deeply inauthentic, and then he meets Ted, a genuine, open, vulnerable person who is unapologetically kind,and HONEST, even in the face of hatred and criticism. And it changes him. He sees a different way than the one he's used to, and he so desperately wants to take it.

Trent Crimm: The Independent

It’s a real tragedy that the Ted Lasso Funko collection doesn’t have Trent. Because I’m obsessed with him I decided to learn how to custom funko pops to make my own! First custom funko and I’m pretty happy with how he turned out! I'll put his glasses on him later cause for now I'm really scared of messing up the paint with glue

I miss them ❤️💙💛

i’ve been clearing out old screenshots in my camera roll but i have ted lasso brain rot so you all have to see what they made me think of (part four. more posts)

WHERE ARE MY TED LASSO FANS I CANT BE THE ONLY ONE LOSING MY MIND OVER HANNAH WADDINGHAM’S CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

Ted’s POV

figuring out how to draw these guys<333

I saw @fandomnerd33's post and just had to

TFW you are a respected sports journalist and your last interview left you yearning for a man who unironically wears khakis 

✨𝕨𝕠𝕠𝕗 𝕨𝕠𝕠𝕗 𝕨𝕠𝕠𝕗!✨

Shout out to Trent Crimm, The Independent