Offseason: TV shows or movies based on Boston sports?

[Hawg73]

With the heavy dosage of sports programming on TV and the sports mania that affects certain parts of the country - much like the Boston area, it's just a matter of time before somebody combines the traditional sitcom and drama genres with pro sports and creates hybrid shows that appeal to that 18-50 male AND female audiences with disposable income.

Let's say you were a TV (or movie) producer trying to pitch a show based on Boston sports for a local audience. What would you call the show? What would it be about? Here are a few examples that I came up with:

Mr. Boggs - Features a retired Wade Boggs as a manager of a little league team made up of misfits and wiseguys. Boggs uses his personal experiences in baseball and out to help the kids get through some tough situations in their own lives. "I remember when Barbara Walters asked me about that.......". The kids end up responding to his homespun advice and come together to win a championship.

Make Room for Guapo - Wacky misadventures of a "slightly" overweight reliever as he travels the league in search of all-you-can-eat buffets (picture the harried Denny's managers) while good-naturedly promising his frustrated manager that he will start a diet tomorrow.

Pedro and the Man - Based on the close personal friendship between Pedro Martinez and Dan Duquette the show explores how despite coming from different backgrounds, people can learn to live and laugh with one another, and maybe just win a few games along the way.

Some more potential titles:

[B}No time For Tuna
The Trouble With Harry
Bourque's Law
Trading Aces
Waiting For Plantier[/B]

You get the idea- anybody got any thoughts on these or any others? Obviously it's a long offseason and I really don't have much to do at work today so I got this idea after reading a Bill Simmons column on Page 2 and thought it might work.

[pookie]

You have to be an immigrant from patriots.com to understand this stupidity...

It would be a mini-series. It's called:

Mike0401 and the Batmann:

A story about 2 poor, fair-weather New England Patriots fans that are truly not Patriot fans at all, but merely Drew Bedsore fans. They are both infuriated when their idol, Drew, is traded to the Buffalo Biles and their loathing for Drew's replacement Jon Brady has no end. They are constantly getting into skirmishes and fights with real fans of the Patriots because of their anger. The show progresses to find the 2 poor slobs involved heavily in drugs and alcohol.... often sitting in the stands by themselves, drinking heavily. They spiral downward further and further getting in trouble with the law regularly. The story culminates in a happy ending, though, when Mr. Bedsore hears of his obsessed fans' plight, bails them out of a Provincetown jail one chilly November evening and whisks them away to Buffalo. Mike and Batmann are ecstatic that their hero has rescued them from New England and they are immediately transformed into Biles fans. The closing scene of the mini-series is a happy moment where Mike, Batmann and Drew are dancing in a mosh pit at a heavy metal club in a Buffalo suburb. The ending shot is of Drew jumping high into the air, off of the stage, landing ass-first onto the puckered up lips of Mike and Batmann.

[Hawg73]

Pook,

That was hilarious. Broke whole new ground. I hadn't considered Pats.com as being part of it. How 'bout this one:

Stanley's Angels A trio of chicks from Pats.com wearing snazzy jumpsuits meets in an office and hears the voice of Stanley on the speakerphone ordering them around and telling them that football isn't for chicks. If they backsass him he threatens to "slap their lips off"

Mike and Batman, LMFAO.

[pookie]

Originally posted by Hawg73
"slap their lips off"




ROFL
Slap their lips off.... Ah, that was truly an instant classic. Along with "laying pipe". :clap:

Did you notice that I changed the names in my story to protect the guilty? It's Mike0401 and Batmann.

[Hawg73]

Truly brilliant Pook, I love the ending where Drew plants his keister right on their lips. Blends truth with fiction. I'm sure should this pilot ever get made it would be an instant classic.

Could I request a re-write so that my best friend "Mike0401" ends up taking the worst of it and ends up with a neck injury? It would be just like the episode at the Paradise. Make that a severe hand injury so he can never type again.

By the way, thanks for your "mole" input. Nice to have a source of info in Big D. That new avatar looks incredibly "pookieish"

[pookie]

Originally posted by Hawg73
That new avatar looks incredibly "pookieish"

Gee thanks... Isn't it f'ing cute???!!!! Again, I'm taking one for the team with my less than masculine avatar. But hey, I"m married so I can't lose much more of my manhood, right? ....hehehe.

I'm envisioning another television drama series. It involves somebody called Stanlie Morganti who is an abusive, possessive husband. His poor wife Karoline was trying desperately to get out of the troublesome marriage. Then, some deviant steals her identity and makes plenty of trouble for the couple. It turns out ok in the end because guest star Batmann figures out the whole scam and makes right, despite being a heroin junky........ Hmmmm, maybe not.

[SamBam39]

I heard that Fox is going to have a new program on this Fall. The premise is a retired NFL running back moves to a small Central Mass town to raise his children. he is employed as a school teacher and the show chronicles the ups and downs of being a former pro athlete and starting your life over again.

The title of the show is FAULK IN ATHOL !! ;)