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Derek McConnell
Aug 23, 2013
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The Athletes
Usually the Quarterback is the star of the show, but Derek McConnell was a background character who was not exactly the team leader. Instead he was painted as an average player who seemed to come from the American South, but he used his status to get as many women as possible. Now if that isn’t the American Dream, we don’t know what is.
Demetrius Harris
Aug 23, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
The character of rookie Running Back, Demetrius Harris may not have had much of a moral compass, but that was probably the point of the character on the ESPN original show, Playmakers. The show only lasted one season, though not because of ratings; which were actually very high. The NFL basically threatened ESPN that they would remove the game from the network due to the graphic portrayal of the game, even though they never said it was the NFL, nor did they ever say where the Cougars actually played.
Most of their concerns, we suspect were the depiction of Harris who throughout the season was shown constantly with drugs (including stealing pain medication from a child in a hospital), in strip clubs, and was associated with a murder. Regardless of the unlikability of the character, we did love watching the brashness of Demetrius Harris….even though the actor who portrayed him, Omar Gooding (who is Cuba Gooding Jr.’s brother), kind of looked like a constipated version of Rod Tidwell throughout the series.
Curtis Jackson
Aug 23, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
Arguably the coolest of the cool players on Carver High, we admit we were still shocked when reviewing all of the episodes of the White Shadow (even though we remember it happening) when we watched the death of Curtis Jackson. We suppose in a show based on the inner city of Los Angeles, that one of the players was not going to make it out alive, but we will always remember the party animal of Carver High.
Chuck Cunningham
Aug 23, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
Yeah, we know. However sometimes we just want to be nice, and throw a bone to a character whose demise developed his own syndrome (the Chuck Cunningham Syndrome), whereby a character suddenly disappears and is not just written off the show, but is treated like he never existed. With that in mind, our ballot gives you Opie’s big brother, Chuck.
What do we really know of Chuck Cunningham? Based on his limited appearances, all we know is that he was always doing something basketball related and got a scholarship to Wisconsin-Milwaukee (or was it Marquette?). Sure, Richie Cunningham was actually seen playing basketball for his high school team, but was he ever going to get a free ride to a university from it? Not too likely. Basketball was the backbone of Chuck Cunningham’s brief and mediocre existence; and we would like to think that he found his way to a pro career in Europe after Tom Bosley ignored his existence.