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20 years ago, ESPN aired Playmakers, a scripted drama about a football team with drug issues, domestic violence and homophobia.
It was a massive hit, but the NFL hated it, so it was canceled.
Here's the definitive story of what happened to Playmakers:
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Happy 10-year anniversary to the greatest fireworks show in history, when San Diego accidentally shot off 7,000 fireworks at once.
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Texas Southern mascot absolutely wrecked the Kansas mascot in the dance-off. Wait for it…
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Is Chris Berman 2x the size of Jeff Passan and 4x the size of Tim Kurkjian?
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Reminder that Toledo's stadium features an actual rocket that is angled to land at Bowling Green's 50-yard line.
Your rivalry could never.
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Spike Lee on Kobe (on Sportscenter): "He'd always tell me, the first time he'd see me, 'Spike, the Knicks suck.'"
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USC and UCLA have no idea what they signed up for.
With a toss of 12 feet, six inches, Iowa redshirt freshman offensive lineman Gennings Dunker (Lena, Ill.) wins the 20th Annual Hay Bale Toss at Solon Beef Days in Solon, Iowa.
#Hawkeyes
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Petition to bring back fun Super Bowl logos.
You can spot the exact moment the NFL turned to the boring corporate logo 👎
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Cannot emphasize enough that we all thought this looked fine at the time. Fashion is wild like that.
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How does Dr. Pepper sponsor everything in college football except a bowl?
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Georgia taking down big bad Bama gives hope to all the other teams that have 19 five-star players on their rosters.
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UConn is the first school to put its men's and women's teams in the Final Four in the same year since NC State yesterday.
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I almost forgot what a normal football locker room without $50,000 sleeping chairs looked like.
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Pat McAfee got Brady Quinn's Sister's jersey from the 2006 Fiesta Bowl for his show at Notre Dame today.
AJ Hawk says his mother-in-law had it in storage for 20 years. What a pull!
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If you only watched Aaron Judge via college football cut-ins, you would think he is terrible.
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Remember: If Elijah Moore doesn't fake pee in the 2019 Egg Bowl, Ole Miss maybe wins that game, Joe Moorhead gets fired earlier, Joe Judge maybe gets the Miss St. job and the Giants swing harder to hire Matt Rhule.
Everything in football comes back to this.
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History of the Fenway Bowl
2020: Canceled due to COVID
2021: Canceled due to COVID
2022: The coach of one team left for the other team
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Bad college football can be fun, even a joy, but bad NFL football is always just sad.
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James Madison is ranked No. 25 in the AP Poll, just five games into their FBS experience. Incredible.
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Patrick Mahomes says on ESPN that the Chiefs would have deferred/kicked if they won the toss in overtime. So they’d know what they needed.
“We changed the rules, we can execute them both ways. I don’t know how they’re going to change it this time.”
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Some pro athlete is going to copy this but remember you first saw it in the NAIA national championship game.
In awe of the DANGER: BEWARE OF DOG sign under the uniform. Next level
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Jaxson Dart's eyeblack is inspired by Anakin Skywalker.
A man of culture who appreciates the prequels.
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Local TV reporter on the XFL Arlington Renegades: "I think people are excited to have a team in Arlington that actually plays football in February."
💀💀💀
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We're a few days away from realizing Notre Dame has been playing 10 guys on defense all season.
So uh, Notre Dame only had 10 players on the field on this play. Tennessee State nearly scored a touchdown.
That can't happen against better teams.
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10-win Iowa played two ranked teams this season and lost 57-0 to them.
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You can't say TCU didn't deserve to be here when they literally beat the undefeated No. 2 team to get here. Sometimes you just get your ass kicked by a much better team.
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Oakland is a commuter school in suburban Detroit that became a Division I program in 1999.
Kentucky is the winningest program in Division I history.
Unbelievable.
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Per the Constitution, the new temporary House speaker is the representative from Naboo.
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Max Duggan entered the room with red eyes and sniffles. Fighting back tears.
“If we got in (the CFP), we’d give a heck of a fight. I don’t know. I wanted that one really bad.”
“There’s nothing I wanted more than to get this school a championship.”
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Watching this Oregon-Washington game and realizing the bottom third of the Big Ten will never have a chance again.
Conference realignment is going to be brutal for a lot of teams who will come to regret it.
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I feel bad for Will Levis because his entire "slide" is a result of the NFL Draft Machine. Nobody who watched him regularly in college thought he would go near the top of the draft.
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You know how bad it has to be for the broadcast to mention the ACTUAL TIME since you last scored?
This was almost an hour of real time.
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We've got a QB apologizing for suffering a devastating leg injury.
devastated. heartbroken. In so much disbelief rn, I wish my leg broke earlier in the season so y’all could see this team is much more than the quarterback. I thought results matter. 13-0 and this roster matches up across any team in those top 4 rankings. I am so sorry. Go Noles!
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NEW: College football players can opt into EA Sports College Football 25 beginning today.
🎮 All 134 FBS teams in the game
🎮 Players will get $600 + a copy of the game
🎮 Opt in via the COMPASS NIL app
🎮 More 11,000 players expected in the game
MORE:
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People do realize Alabama's win over Georgia makes Texas' win over Alabama even better, right?
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The rule should be, if a city loses a pro sports team but gets a new one, that new team gets the lore.
Houston Texans get the Oilers throwback, not the Titans. Minnesota Wild get the North Stars, not Dallas.
The throwback Houston Oilers uniforms that the Tennessee Titans will wear for two games this season:
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Nick Saban's radio show is the purest thing left in college football.
Makes $11 million annually, greatest coach of all time, and he comes here every Thursday to take offensive line criticism from a man named Peewee.
"So I wanted to ask you, 'What the hell is going on?'"
- Coach Saban during epic rant on Hey Coach while taking call from Peewee
#RollTide
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@Alfa_Insurance
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ESPN's college football anthem for 2022: The Emperor by Yungblud.
I dig it.
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Jim Harbaugh on paying college athletes: “The billions that are being generated, they’re not getting much of.”
Suggests everyone profiting off college athletes, himself included, should take a 5-10% pay cut and put it toward the players.
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Dan Campbell has never been a coordinator in his coaching career.
Yes he had an interim HC stint, but as we go through another coaching carousel, remember that calling good plays doesn't make a head coach.
Being a head coach is about organizing and leading people.
this hit WAAAAY differently now with the Lions heading to the NFC Championship Game
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If you're wondering why Liberty got in because they "kept winning their games" and Florida State got left out after winning its games, I got nothing for ya.
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Guy behind Trump immediately realized what he said was a problem.
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Next week
0-5 UConn travels to 0-5 UMass for the biggest game of the year.
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Watch the offensive lineman come sliding in for the first-down signal lmao
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Kirk Herbstreit not making a pick on the game he's calling remains one of the last bastions of objective journalism.
McAfee: "I think you are allowed, you just choose not to."
Herbstreit: "No, they tell me I'm not allowed to."
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Touchdown, commercial, kickoff out of the end zone, commercial.
Can we not, please.
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Iowa center Tyler Linderbaum donates $30,000 from his NIL earnings to the Iowa children’s hospital. Wow. The value of NIL comes in many forms.
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All-time wild social media graphic
BREAKING: Slavery has officially been banned as punishment in Tennessee.
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The
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never trailed. They broke the record for goals. They beat the second-, third- and fourth-place teams, along with the host/favorite. Legendary run.
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The most fascinating college football game of the year might be Albany at Hawaii.
Among the longest travel ever for a game within the United States, and it's kicking off at midnight Albany time.
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The clearest sign the CFP committee doesn't act consistently was putting Florida State between Alabama and Georgia.
You think the current FSU team is worse than Alabama but better than Georgia? Does anyone REALLY believe that distinction?
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I've become a NCAA Tournament contractionist. Go back to 64. Or at least make the First Four completely out of at-large teams.
The small-conference 16-seed AQs should get to experience the real NCAA Tournament.
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Funniest part of the Pop-Tart Bowl mascot death was the sign toss. I laugh every time I see it.
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They’re together now. RIP to a college football legend.
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"What A Pro Wants" with Chet Holmgren and SGA is among the worst NCAAT commercials we've ever had.
We used to have Scoop There It Is.
We used to have Napa Know How.
It used to be better.
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Kansas State-Tulane will be the helmet Game of the Century of the Week.
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The 2020 NCAA Tournament
What is the best TV show that got cancelled prematurely?
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The Pop-Tarts Bowl trophy has two slots at the top to hold real Pop-Tarts. Brilliant.
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Ohio State got inside Clemson's 25-yard line 5 times: 3 field goals, 1 TD, 1 INT.
We can talk about the officiating, but Ohio State blew its chances and let Clemson go 94 yards for the winning TD and that was the difference.
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The worst part about the TCU-Alabama argument is that Tennessee should be ahead of Alabama.
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NCAA Tournament expansion people want to have more Virginias at the expense of the Oaklands.
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Nate Burleson saying moving down the field is like homework and the red zone is the test is honestly the best football explanation I've ever heard.
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Forget the start times. The amount of commercials tonight has been ridiculous.
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Jim Harbaugh racing through the airport, running from Tony Petitti, who reaches the plane and finds a man in a Michigan hat, but it’s not Harbaugh. He looks out the window into another plane, where Harbaugh is waving goodbye as the plane takes off. [credits roll]
Jim Harbaugh’s attorney, Tom Mars, tells ESPN he fully expects Jim Harbaugh to fly with the team to Penn State. “I’m confident he’s going to be on that plane one way or another," Mars said.
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Since the Pac-12 fell apart last summer, it was the best football conference in the fall, reached the CFP title game and it's now 5-0 in the NCAA men's tournament.
Sigh. Sad that college sports continues to rip itself apart.
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That salary would have ranked No. 129 among FBS college football coaches.
REVEALED: Dr. Fauci is the HIGHEST PAID employee in the federal government with a $417,608-a-year salary
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Three-loss Iowa State finished ahead of 11-0 Coastal Carolina and they had a common opponent that beat ISU.
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A Tulane player yelling out on the way back to the locker room: “They heard Tulane but they didn’t know we was Louisiana.”
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Duquesne over BYU is what the NCAA Tournament expansion people want to take away.
Dukes were a bid thief, then they beat a Power conference team.
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Caitlin Clark talks a lot of trash and didn't care that Angel Reese dished it back to her.
This isn't a Thing. You don't need to pretend it's a Thing. It's all fine!
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YouTube TV multiview for the NCAA Tournament is going to be incredible.
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8 of the 32 teams left in the NCAA Tournament are double-digit seeds
10. Colorado
11. Duquesne
11. NC State
11. Oregon
12. JMU
12. Grand Canyon
13. Yale
14. Oakland
All 1s and 2s won, three 3s won, three 4s won.
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The last coach to beat Alabama by 16+ was Nick Saban at LSU.
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YouTube TV will give you every multiview combination except the one you want.
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A fun subtlety in the old NCAA Football games. Not every game was on TV, and if you weren’t, your game didn’t get commentary.
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ET has learned that Travis Kelce has a job.
Travis Kelce was noticeably absent during Taylor Swift's 34th birthday celebration in New York City, but for a good reason.
A source tells ET that he "remains committed to playing his best and doing his best on and off the field. The team practices are critical, mandatory to…
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Remembering the Will Rogers era at Washington.
Washington QB Will Rogers has re-entered the portal as a grad transfer,
@TheAthletic
has learned.
The Mississippi State transfer is back on the market after HC Kalen DeBoer left for Alabama. SEC's all-time leader in pass attempts and completions.
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The way Duke's Mayo handles the bowl game should be the model for all bowl sponsors.
Brand awareness goes way up, it's a fun vibe, and it's a product viewers can actually buy. This makes way more sense than logistics companies buying a name and a commercial.
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College football as we knew it was fun. Pour one out.
Definitely feels like we’re on our way to a Fox conference and an ESPN conference.
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Whenever I see Duquesne, I think about how they cut the baseball program in 2010 and Miguel Cabrera bought a ton of leftover Duquesne baseball shirts because it was the Old English D logo and he always wore them under his Tigers jersey.
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Five-year D2 player Jack Gohlke is outplaying lottery pick Reed Sheppard.
Nothing else in American sports gives us this.
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You can argue about amateurism or politics or whatever. It's really not about any of that.
The reason CFB is on the brink is because of the virus. Most of the world got it under control. We didn't.
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Kirk Herbstreit on SportsCenter:
“I hate losing the tradition of the sport. I’ve always been, I guess, naive to it. I’ve tried to be the guy who thinks people care about tradition and rivalries. Clearly, the decision-makers don’t. It’s an arms race and it’s about the money."
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The college football season began and ended with people acting like some very much alive coaches had died. RIP in peace.
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Down by 5 with 25 seconds left: "You don't need a 3. You need a quick bucket."
This Is March
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The joy of college football isn't Alabama and Georgia curb-stomping everyone.
It's the Houston-UTSA game. It's App State-UNC. It's Pitt-West Virginia. What a Week 1 of classics.
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So Colorado ended up having the season most of us expected.
Get destroyed on the lines, Shedeur gets banged up, Buffs get everyone's best shot, won't be bowling in a tough P12.
Still a big improvement from last year, but the nature of the TCU game warped everything.
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