<![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @Arriaga_II: At first I thought you were harsh but then I realized I still want to punch everyone that says, "Oh, I watched a few episodes and it was funny" in the face. So, spot on.

Youthier

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> Wait, won't they remove all the bike racks from the Dillion campus?

Glass_Family

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @CubanForPresident:

I second that man crush on Riggins. The mere sight of him encourages me to crack open beers. I don't know what the problem is. There's plenty of young 'tang on this show. I guess all the old pervs are creepin' out real live folks at the actual games.

Talkin_Proud

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> This show never made any sense to me.

I mean, the head coach gets tomorrow's paper a day early, so why in the hell is he always so worried about the game? He already knows whether or not they win.

cromartie

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> I wondering what game show NBC plans to replace Friday Night Lights with? Perhaps one of those painful Japanese ones will be imported.

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cgb

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> This is the best thing I've ever heard, I adore this show.

Lady Andrea

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> the first season was sweet, the second is becoming the OC with football jerseys and cleats.

LingeringBursitis

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> ESPN would just turn it into Playmakers. But seriously, Playmakers was the best comedy program 2003.

"If you think he has good hands on the field you should see him in the bedroom!"

Abe Froman's Sausage

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> I've tried to watch FNL 3 or 4 times, since i'm part of the intended audience. It has sucked hard every time.

That's why no one watches it.

drewheyman

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> I don't watch live; I see it on nbc.com Saturday mornings while recovering from Friday night. Unless ABC puts it on their website this is an insanely bad idea as revenue numbers will much much worse. However, given my man crush on Tim Riggins and far more conventional crush on Tyra Collette I would probably still buy the DVDs.

Still if Smash says Boo-yah once....

Crucifictorius

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @HeavyPettingZoo: +1

BoeheimIsMySavior

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> Seriously, Friday Night Lights is awesome. At least DVR it.

HeavyPettingZoo

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> The football scenes in this show are ridiculous, not in a good way. These are supposedly the Texas state champs, yet every game last year they won with an improbable, shocking last minute play (with a different player coming up clutch each time, depending on who was the focus of that week's storyline). Don't state champs usually win in blowouts?

Other than the actualy football scenes, the show was pretty good (last year at least). But the game scenes were filled with the worst of the worst sports-movie cliches I've ever seen.

Fuzzy Dunlop

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> Let's see...schedule Friday Night Lights at the same time as your primary audience is at real life Friday Night Lights in Texas and Ohio. We would watched it in the booth while we were broadcasting HS games (or was it the other way around).

BTW, wasn't it the worldwide leader who let the NFL shut down Playmakers because it wasn't realistic and gave the NFL a bad name. That's right, Pacman, Chris Henry and Vickster learned their behaviors from that show.

valpo84

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @katolesce: +1

bamassippi

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> San Dimas High School Football RULES!

Kid Canada

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @xhack: Don't forget the Booster Club pep rally by the duck pond. I also hear that Street was interested in the bicycle rack until he realized it only worked if the wheels were lined up behind each other.

Athletic Supporter v0.42beta

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @ArkansasFred: That is always my first thought when Playmakers comes up. That and the crack smoking.

Matt_T

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> At first this sounds like a great idea, but then you think about the scenes you'll be seeing on the show next season: Smash at a college party, stopping to check Dillon's score (in real time!) on his ESPN mobile, Coach sitting down on the Budweiser Hot Seat before the state championship and of course Bill Simmons trying to do a Texas accent after he somehow weasles his way into a guest shot.

xhack

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> as long as Oliver Platt returns as The Boss.

MitchKayak

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @katolesce: +1

Midwestern-City_Water-Vapor

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> I have never seen the show, but I didn't know that they played flag football in Texas.

jwaves2007

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> People don't want to watch a show about high school football? How shocking.

Nose Tackle Romper

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @The Gizmo from Pismo: Do we really worry about technical terms around here? This is the same place that has got good milage out of of the term "Fuck Lion".

Athletic Supporter v0.42beta

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @The Gizmo from Pismo: Urethra Franklin certainly thinks so.

Weed Against Speed

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @ArkansasFred: Are you sure that wasn't "The Program" with James Caan?

Detective Bunk

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @ArkansasFred: is peehole a technical term?

The Gizmo from Pismo

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @HIV 2 Elway: That was back in the day when MTV had music

elwood

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> This also brought the back the memory of that Playmakers episode where the one guy had the catheter shoved up his pee hole and had his bladder pumped with clean urine to pass the drug test. That was awesome.

ArkansasFred

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> Isiah cancelled "Friday Night Lights"

/wait, what?

Old No.7

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> I hope that Street is aware that ESPN won't be able to cover his "experimental surgery" in Mexico since they added pet coverage to the health insurance.

BDoc

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> ESPN acting for the betterment of television? I call bullshit.

MDT

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @HugsFromHarold: Well fuck me for not reading all the comments.

Chuck Knoblockhead

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @being sven: John Clayton is a never nude.

Wee_Evans

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> When does the next season of Bonds on Bonds start?

McCroskey

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @DirtyJersey: You have made Jon Kitna's God very angry.

suedevsleather

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @Big Daddy Drew:
IT'S NICE TO MEET YOU COACH TAYLOR, I AM THE NEW COLUMNIST FOR THE DILLON GAZETTE, AND I AM HERE TO MAKE A NAME FOR MYSELF AT YOUR EXPENSE!
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Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

hockalees

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @DirtyJersey: Come on now, Smash isn't a WR, use your head.

Chuck Knoblockhead

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah!: And the poor mobility. After all, Omar played a high-school student for about 20 years...he's gotta be getting up there.

StupidAngelos

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> ESPN the world wide leader in... well, uh, something, we might be, okay, maybe not anymore.

suedevsleather

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @LingeringBursitis: Everyone loves Journey. If you say you don't love Journey, you are lying.

MeSoHornsby

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @Cassifras: Jeremy Schapp will have an expose on the topic on the next E:60.

Weed Against Speed

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @Camp Tiger Claw: If it includes the drivers' wives, yes.

being_sven

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @StupidAngelos: That would explain the shitty balloon tossing on all those episodes of "Wild and Crazy Kids."

Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah!

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> You guys still going to watch the show when they all quit football to become NASCAR drivers?

Camp Tiger Claw

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> I wonder who they'll have get hooked on crack.

Doyle McPoyle

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> Wouldn't bringing a show from another network be ESPN Un-original Entertainment then?

Dany Heatley Speedwagon

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> ESPN really should have scheduled a Town Hall before deciding this.

MENDOZA!!!!!

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @ArkansasFred: Better than airing it against football like they did last year, though.

diddly

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @ArkansasFred:

"Well, I won't be drunk..."

- Jason Street

Gourmet Spud

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> Friday Night Lights: now with 90% more Under Armour!

becky

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah!: Omar Gooding and Byron Leftwich are the same guy, right?

StupidAngelos

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> I can see a couple movie spin-offs, Waterboy: The TV series ...

Triple B

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> I understand the appeal of airing it on Friday nights but it would have probably been better received if most of the target audience wasn't break-neck drunk at that time.

ArkansasFred

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @Me So Hornsby: Somebody get that man a contract!!!

Off The Baggie

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @DirtyJersey: no, Millen more likely to draft Landry. a WR who won't amount to anything in the pros.

HugsFromHarold

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @HIV 2 Elway:
It's like when MTV stopped running videos.
I'm looking foreward to Real World :Cincinnati

bizzo5000

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @being sven: The better question is: Where were all the quasi-hipsters who say they adored the show? If everyone who said they loved Arrested actually, you know, watched, the ratings would have been Seinfeldian.

Arriaga_II

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @Me So Hornsby: they'd end every episode with a fucking Journey song. Don't know if I could handle that.

LingeringBursitis

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> That's great news. It's just like when ESPN saved The Contender. Everyone watches that!

Contempty

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> As long as it doesn't interfere with the 20-hour a day poker programming they show.

Dead Wrestlers Society

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> Omar Gooding = RATINGS

Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah!

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> FROM THE NETWORK THAT BROUGHT YOU TILT.....

The Teufel Shuffle

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> It would be way better on Skinemax.

ASox

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> The coach will by played by Sean Salisbury; the coke-snorting, whore-fucking wide receiver will be played by a former Cowboy ... Emmitt Smith.

Phony Gwynn

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> If ESPN picks up 'Friday Night Lights', Matt Millen will probably draft The Smash with his first pick next year.

DirtyJersey

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> At least it would add some realism. Like having the best player on the team a little stubby white wide receiver. Who is also gay.

Dread

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> First Stephen A. guest spot in 3, 2, 1...

Drew Magary

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> I don't want... your show.

/Dawson Leary

katolesce

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> So they ruin Monday Night Football, but save Friday Night Lights. I guess it's a wash.

Gourmet Spud

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @being sven: Don't you know? That's Isiah's fault.

Pennington Noodlearm Enthusiast

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> Remember when ESPN, you know, aired sporting events? Man, those were the days.

HIV 2 Elway

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> @Me So Hornsby: Now that's an idea we can get behind

NDEddieMac

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> Where was ESPN for 'Arrested Development'?

being_sven

]]> <![CDATA[Like Playmakers, But, You Know, NICER]]> How about HBO picks up the show, and then the cheerleaders can get nekkid.

MeSoHornsby

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