ESPN Cancels Playmakers
 

Ah well, guess the pressure of the NFL is too much......

boo

From what I've read, a lot of players got pissed because it got too close to reality. Is it true?

The official reason the NFL gave for asking ESPN to cancel the series is that there was no way that real life could be as outrageous as football was portrayed on the show. A quick comparison:

Notable 'Playmakers' moments:
steroid abuse
spousal abuse
drug abuse
accompliceship to murder
intrateam fistfights

Of course, since nothing like this EVER happens in the NFL, ESPN was WAY out of line...oh, hell, I cant even continue to be sarcastic about it. Total BS

Not cool. i was starting to get into it.

I am beyond pissed!! I really liked Playmakers!!! BOO HISS TO ESPN!!!!:mad:

I just reserved my copy of the DVD @ Media Play. It comes out on DVD on 4.20.04

Haha my favorite episode was about the guy who got someone else's urine injected inside him.

-Rudey
--We always joked with one of my friends that he'd need to do that and he'd make a very scared face.

How much is the DVD?

Ditto. I'm thinking about buying it.

Based on what I've seen, it's around $30.

My bad. . . $39.99 at Media Play

I really liked this show. Maybe it will get picked up by HBO or FX or a network like that.

You're totally wrong.....they got pissed because it depicts them as a majority as a bunch of stripper loving, steroid using idiots who drug women, get them pregnant and all the other crap it did when in fact most of them are nothing like that at all. Its only a few who do stuff like that. Most of them have families, don't party and are good people. Believe me, I know. I mean think about it for a minute....you can't do all the stuff playmakers made out like they did and still have a successfull career in the league for very long. Its very hard to stay alive in the league. Those guys train 7-8 months out of a year trying to get their speed up, improve their game, beat out the starter for their position not to mention the fact that they get fined for just about ANYTHING they do ( on and off the field) that league officals look down on. The other 4-5 months out of the year they're in the middle of their season and they don't do anything at all during that time except practice and play on sundays. Playmakers was a bunch of Horsedump and it pissed off a lot of people, but not because it was too much to reality.