I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!

In February 2006 Chandler appeared as the ill-fated bomb squad leader Dylan Young in "It's The End of The World" and "As We Know It" a two-part episode of the ABC series Grey's Anatomy that followed Super Bowl XL. After graduating from high school Chandler attended the University of Georgia where he was a drama major and member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. As a freshman at Walton Chandler was a member of the 1979 state championship football team but left the following year after his father died in a car accident.

Kyle Martin Chandler (born September 17 1965) is an American film and television actor best known for his role as Deputy Jackson Lamb in the film Super 8 and in the television shows Early Edition as Gary Hobson Grey's Anatomy as Dylan Young and as Coach Eric Taylor in Friday Night Lights for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2011.