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Friends Fans Think A Costume Detail Predicted Monica & Chandler’s Romance
“They were meant to be.”
Monica and Chandler’s romance may have been foreshadowed in Season 3, according to some eagle-eyed Friends fans.
In the 1996 Thanksgiving episode “The One with the Football,” Monica (Courteney Cox), Joey (Matt LeBlanc), and Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) go head-to-head with Ross (David Schwimmer), Chandler (Matthew Perry), and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) in a heated game of football.
During the game, Monica is seen wearing a blue New York Giants sweater, while Chandler is shown wearing a Giants cap with the exact same color and logo. Decades later, some fans believe the characters’ game-day getup hinted at how in sync they were before their romance began a season later, in Season 5.
“They were meant to be,” one fan commented on Facebook, as reported by the Daily Mail. “This is such a sweet little detail,” another said. “Foreshadowing. Amazing. They were pre-destined,” one user added.
They weren’t the only people matching: Ross and Rachel, who were a couple at that point, were also dressed alike, both sporting the Nike swoosh. “Look at Rachel’s cap and look at Monica’s t-shirt. Can you understand what I’m trying to say?” a fan wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
The Friends creators have never clarified whether the outfit similarities were an intentional choice, but that hasn’t deterred speculation within the show’s fandom.
It’s one of many details that have recently been picked apart and analyzed online. In another, Redditors were surprised to discover that Schwimmer played both Ross and one of Rachel’s brief love interests, Russ, in the Season 2 episode “The One With Russ.” And speaking of Ross, fans also recently took to Reddit to discuss whether his ex-wife, Emily Walthom, was a hero or villain in Seasons 4 and 5. The fandom never sleeps.
