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The cup of good fortune has truly runneth over for the relatively new friends since they teamed up to buy the storied Welsh soccer club Wrexham A.F.C., which was promoted back to the English Football League after one season under new ownership.

“I consider him one of my closest friends,” McElhenney told People of Reynolds in August, “and I didn’t even know him three years ago.”

It all started when Reynolds, touched by McElhenney’s performance on a certain episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadephia, reached out over DM to let him know. They started chatting regularly and, after Reynolds found out it was McElhenney’s dream to own a soccer team, they ended up in business before they’d even met in person.

Since then, their families have also “grown incredibly close,” McElhenney said, “and even though we live on opposite coasts, we feel like we’re right next to each other.”