TV’s sports comedies are providing the kind of winning stories that movies used to tackle.
Here’s a confession that, well, anyone who has met me already knows: I’m not a sports guy. While others have fantasy football, I grew up putting together fantasy TV schedules and creating imaginary radio shows. Figuring out which TV pilots would be drafted to air and which middling series players might get cut from the pro primetime teams was my sport. Which network would win my Super Bowl, the end-of-season Nielsen ratings crown? I guess it’s good that I wound up doing what I do.
All of this is prelude to say: despite my lack of sports knowledge, I love me a good sports movie or TV show. It’s usually an underdog story, something we can all relate to — taking on what seems like an insurmountable goal to prove that, despite some setbacks or limitations, you’ve still got some fight in you.
And right now in TV, we’re seeing some great sports shows in the world of comedy. Actually, they’re some of my favorite series, comedy or drama, of the year: Hulu’s “Chad Powers,” NBC’s “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins” and Netflix’s “Running Point” among them. Other standouts include NBC’s disappointingly canceled “Stumble” and Apple TV’s “Stick.”
