Thanks to everyone who responded to last week's query on best/worst sports-themed TV shows.
I'm going to write a newspaper column on that topic very soon . . . so this is your last chance to weigh in if you haven't already.
Wake the wife and kids and alert them, too.
Comments (7)
CBC in Canada aired "MVP: The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives" which was canceled after one season. SOAPNet is picking it up, but unless American viewers along the US-Canada border saw the series, I don't think it will be eligible for your column.
Can you count "Tilt" in your 'worst' category (hey, ESPN considers Poker a sport)... (Amelia Cooke's presence notwithstanding).
For me, toss up between "White Shadow" and "Sports Night" for best... though soon 'Friday Night Lights' will surge past them both.
But don't forget "The Baseball Bunch," which could actually go in both categories, if you think about it...
The top 2 have got to be "The White Shadow" and "The Odd Couple."
1. Sports Night
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Bronx is Burning
Can we also include reality tv programming because if you do I would have to add:
- HBO Hard Knocks series
- Spike's Ultimate Fighter
And for sports themed tv movies does anything really beat Tony Danza in the Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon
I do like My Boys.....but then I'm a girl.
How about the show based on Tony Kornheiser's life w/ Jason Alexander and Malcolm Jamal Warner. That was a disaster.
Doug,
The Bronx Is Burning was a mini-series and an average one at that.
I give a vote to Playmakers. Unfortunately after the NFL forced ESPN to not have the show anymore, it all ended without any closure. But the finale was very impressive, even for ESPN standards.
Tilt was bad. Seymour died too soon, Michael Madsen needs his eyebrows back, it played out in the end like a complete movie cliche, and I refuse to take any show with a Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic cameo playing anybody but themselves seriously.