Yes titled Outside Edge. Read the first page of the thread.
No sport sitcoms? Page 2
All available on DVD.
See Amazon product listing [p=http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/5409491/Outside-Edge-Complete-Series-Box-Set/Product.html]
Scully. On C4 in 1984 was a football comedy drama series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scully_%28TV_series%29
The guy who played Scully (Andrew Schofield)lives around the corner from me.
Quote: Nigel Kelly @ April 16 2008, 4:16 PM BSTScully. On C4 in 1984 was a football comedy drama series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scully_%28TV_series%29
Yep - and all available on DVD. *cough cough*
See Amazon product listing [p=http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/1060327/Scully/Product.html]
Quote: Griff @ April 16 2008, 4:21 PM BST(obviously girly games like badminton don't count).
Griff... you thinking what I'm thinking?
I was captain of my badminton team at school - county level. But at golf I was just a country member.
It's impossible to resist. And truth is everything in comedy.
I played Centre Back for my Primary School at Football I was also in the Primary School Cricket Team. Just thought I'd throw that in.
Not a sport sitcom as such, but the fact that Sam Malone in Cheers was an ex baseball player of some renown was pretty important to the plot, especially in explaining why so many of the losers in his bar looked up to him and admired him so much...
And wasn't there an American sitcom starring Burt Reynolds in which he coached a softball of baseball team? Evening Shade?
And I think one of the best episodes from the first season of the American version of The Office involved a basketball match between the office staff and the warehouse staff. It was one of the first instances the show started to find it's own voice.
Also, not a sitcom, and not on TV, but Look Away Now, currently running on Radio 4 on Wednesdays is very funny, and manages to embrace a non-sporting audience as much as a sporting audience.
I agree about the American Office being terrific and I'll resist the urge to mention yet again what gits ITV2 are for sticking out in the post midnight slot.
Back to the original subject, didn't Aaron Sorkind do a sitcom about sportcasters? He's obviously a great writer, shame about the twattish first name.
It's worth noting that, of course, Alan Partridge was also a sports presenter.
The Brittas Empire was in a sports club, if that counts.
And in Seinfeld George Costanza did something with the New York Yankies, although I can't remember what.
There was that Chris Barrie thing, in which he played an ex-footballer.
By the way, the Mike Bassett T.V. series might not have been very memorable, but the film was very good.
Oh, and I was centre-foward for my Senior school team. I remember the very first time I was picked to play in a team, back in Primary school, when I was 9/10, and I was a substitute. I'd hardly even kicked a ball at that age, and my P.E. teacher brought me on, halfway through the second half, in a match against another nearby school - then 10 minutes later, he'd realised I was shit, and took me off again! Luckily, by the time I started Senior school, I'd had plenty of time to practice, and I got a permanent place in the first team. Me and another lad formed a partnership up front, that we liked to think was similar to that of Peter Beardsley and Gary Lineker's England partnership, with me in the Beardsley provider role, and him in Lineker's Goal-poacher role. I haven't played football for almost 5 years, after giving myself a hernia, in my last game, when I was twisting to volley a ball, in the air.