ESPN's hit series Playmakers cut to the heart of real issues within professional football that the NFL didn't want a spotlight on.
was the type of show that would have been right at home on FX or HBO, but instead landed at ESPN, a brilliant crossover for sports fans and that burgeoning audience that was almost certainly digging those hit cable dramas starting to make the awards lists. Creator John Eisendrath actually developed the project for FX, but the script stayed in developmental purgatory until it landed at ESPN after the network began looking for a flagship project to launch a hit original series.
Though the NFL never truly conceded they asked ESPN to cancel the show, the network and pro sports leagues typically have a fairly symbiotic relationship, and an anonymous former-NFL executive toldto ask ESPN to kill the show.
It’s not perfect, but in that brief one-season run, they take some ambitious shots at storytelling within the frame of sports and masculinity that still hold up. That was of course helped along by the killer ensemble of Omar Gooding, Russell Hornsby, Marcello Thedford, Christopher Wiehl, Jason Matthew Smith, and Anthony John Denison that anchored the series.
It’s an old sports cliche that only one team gets to win it all, which means a whole lot more have to lose along the way. In much the same way,just couldn’t catch the break it needed in the end—but it doesn’t mean the season itself wasn’t still one hell of a ride anyway. Trent Moore is a recovering print journalist, and freelance editor and writer with bylines at lots of places. He likes to find the sweet spot where pop culture crosses over with everything else. Follow him at @trentlmoore on Twitter.
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