ESPN's "Playmakers"

[coldcity]

Reading the jason weaver thread & this came up in it

IMO this show was too real for the world & the NFL had it shut down... but i want to hear others view on the show & why it was axed

Omar Gooding shouldve blown up after Baby Boy & This (cant remember which came first but i think this did)

 

[jjs07]

You answered your own question before you asked the question.

NFL didn't like it. ESPN & the NFL are cohorts....it's as simple as that.

 

[coldcity]

You answered your own question before you asked the question.

NFL didn't like it. ESPN & the NFL are cohorts....it's as simple as that.

didnt know thats what actually happened... AND i want to hear others views on the show & its short tenure... it could possibly still be on if it wasnt axed

 

[DeadsetAce]

show was awesome

 

[xbiker47]

I remember the show came out when I was really young, way too real for ESPN. Wish HBO would have picked it up

 

[ag 47]

NFL didn't like the heat....so cancelled that ***** like Nino. Loved that show too.

 

[doitallpaul]

have it on dvd, will watch the season every year or so...

 

[do work son]

never even heard of it, will look into it later

 

[cato312]

I have the DVD set of this somewhere and this thread reminded me to look for it.

If HBO did/picked up this up

 

[doitallpaul]

I have the DVD set of this somewhere and this thread reminded me to look for it.
If HBO did/picked up this up

HBO would go ALL IN on this show, i can only imagine what they would do.

 

[Clyde Frog]

One of the best shows ever. Been trying to find it on the Internet for a while.

 

[mmg]

If you've never seen this, it was a great short lives series's

NFL didn't like how real ESPN was with the storyline a and poking at everything so they shut it down

HBO needs this

 

[peteweezy]

have it on dvd, will watch the season every year or so...

This

 

[romedadude]

I was glued to this series. I haven't seen one episode since the original run. Roids, sex, homosexuality, cheating, etc. etc. Too real for Tagliabue and nem

I NEEDED A BOOST! SOMETHING TO GIVE ME AN EDGE

 

[trasoul82]

Ah.... the days of "ESPN Original Series'." Somehow , I never caught this show, but I managed to catch an episode of the hot mess of a pseudo gameshow they called "Teammates". :x


I wish HBO would do an NFL-based mini-series. Of course the main characters would play for New Orleans....

 

[100proof]

Man, that ep where Omar Gooding's character got the heads up for the "piss man" and what he had to do to pass the test was :x and more

 

[stringer bell 32]

It was alright

 

[captain charisma]

I barely remember the show. I was still in middle school when it came out, but I remember enjoying it.

Only thing I remember is when they told the quarterback to stop tapping the ball before he threw it, and some parking lot playing.

 

[iceman3699]

Always loved the intro.

 

[Nike Still Sux]

Man, HBO should have picked this show up like a fifty-dollar bill on the ground!!!! It would have been The Wire on the football field. Some of that stuff was a little over the top though like that homosexual relationship come on now really??? *Not the premise of that relationship but how it was going down.

 

[SneakerProSr.]

Part of the NFL deal with ABC/ESPN was to kill this show.

Other networks would have picked it up but ESPN wasn't having it.

 

[chino905]

damn i loved this show. i remember watching this in high school

 

[kingfoamnyc]

One of my fav shows ever. Joint was like Any Given Sunday the series

 

[bjm5295]

should have gone to FX or something. seems like an FX kind of show. only lasted one season, right? was amazing.

 

[nikekid6]

Got DAT DVD