We have arrived in national spotlight. On Ballers tonight on HBO, the Rock is going to try buy the Chiefs. The storyline is the Hunts are upset over the Tyreek Hill incident and selling the team. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Picture mashing up Entourage and Jerry McGuire. [I mean, it's created/produced by Peter Berg/Mark Wahlberg/Evan Reilly, if that doesn't tell the whole story]
Rock is a former small potato NFLer with promise who injured out before any big glory. His brother killed himself in college at USC due to pressure of high recruits. Rock teams up with a numbers man [Corddry] to try to 'go rogue' in various entrepreneurial ventures around today's sports media landscape.
Player agent
Online media startup
'Xtreem' games talent and product platform
B-stories revolve around clients and former clients, rival agents and former colleagues, power players and nemeses, etc. Always about the next big deal and all the hoops they have to go through to land the contract or deal or company that's vital to expanding their brand.
Same cars, booze, chicks and locales as Entourage. Same 'heart-to-hearts' and dramatic maneuvers as Jerry McGuire. A little light humor about hedonistic shenanigans [cheating, STDs, pregnancy scares, ridiculous shopping/purchases, stupid investments like bitcoin and sports drinks, etc] sprinkled in for variety.
Oh, and the opening credits is one of the view I still sit through every episode. Gets ya hyped.
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Picture mashing up Entourage and Jerry McGuire. [I mean, it's created/produced by Peter Berg/Mark Wahlberg/Evan Reilly, if that doesn't tell the whole story]
Rock is a former small potato NFLer with promise who injured out before any big glory. His brother killed himself in college at USC due to pressure of high recruits. Rock teams up with a numbers man [Corddry] to try to 'go rogue' in various entrepreneurial ventures around today's sports media landscape.
Player agent
Online media startup
'Xtreem' games talent and product platform
B-stories revolve around clients and former clients, rival agents and former colleagues, power players and nemeses, etc. Always about the next big deal and all the hoops they have to go through to land the contract or deal or company that's vital to expanding their brand.
Same cars, booze, chicks and locales as Entourage. Same 'heart-to-hearts' and dramatic maneuvers as Jerry McGuire. A little light humor about hedonistic shenanigans [cheating, STDs, pregnancy scares, ridiculous shopping/purchases, stupid investments like bitcoin and sports drinks, etc] sprinkled in for variety.
Oh, and the opening credits is one of the view I still sit through every episode. Gets ya hyped.
Small potato NFLer? The guy just got inducted into the Hall of Fame on that show. He is a legend not some small time guy. Do you even watch Ballers? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Rock is a former small potato NFLer with promise who injured out before any big glory.
That's not true. Rock's character is a Hall of Famer. He went broke because of bad investment deal in which he blames on his former financial adviser. He got into being a financial adviser to help players not turn out what happened to him.
After that it got a little out there with them bringing the Las Vegas stadium deal, buying some extreme sports company and fighting the NCAA. Now its going full crazy with him trying to buy the Chiefs. [Reply]
Originally Posted by OmahaChief:
Small potato NFLer? The guy just got inducted into the Hall of Fame on that show. He is a legend not some small time guy. Do you even watch Ballers?
Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry:
That's not true. Rock's character is a Hall of Famer. He went broke because of bad investment deal in which he blames on his former financial adviser. He got into being a financial adviser to help players not turn out what happened to him.
After that it got a little out there with them bringing the Las Vegas stadium deal, buying some extreme sports company and fighting the NCAA. Now its going full crazy with him trying to buy the Chiefs.
Yeah, I don't pay full attention. It's more of a 'fold laundry' show for me than a 'sit down and absorb everything' show.
Guess I keyed more on his injuries cutting his career short and people razzing him about not meeting potential [probably just smack talk], and missed the HoF storyline.
But the sense of the show as it is, as opposed to the main character's backstory, is pretty solid, no? or have I missed that as well? [Reply]
Will be interesting for sure to see if they put "the situation" in it's proper context which I doubt they will because very few know the real story nor want to know the real story from a national media prospective. If I am Tyreek I'm watching strictly for a potential "defamation lawsuit" for sure.:-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Yeah, I don't pay full attention. It's more of a 'fold laundry' show for me than a 'sit down and absorb everything' show.
Guess I keyed more on his injuries cutting his career short and people razzing him about not meeting potential [probably just smack talk], and missed the HoF storyline.
But the sense of the show as it is, as opposed to the main character's backstory, is pretty solid, no? or have I missed that as well?
My take from season one he was basically his real life self but with with Julius Peppers' career notoriety. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chiefshrink:
Will be interesting for sure to see if they put "the situation" in it's proper context which I doubt they will because very few know the real story nor want to know the real story from a national media prospective. If I am Tyreek I'm watching strictly for a potential "defamation lawsuit" for sure.:-)
If it's true to the formula, the story will be more about the people and institutions The Rock has to seduce [romanticly or Platonicly] in order to close the deal, and the shenanigans of rival bidders, than about the specifics of why the franchise is for sale. [Reply]
