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Binary Logic posted:Yeah The Rock has charisma, even when his acting is toned down compared to his action movie roles. Painkiller addiction is the worst kept secret in the NFL dude. Most of these guys are taking enough to kill a horse by the time their careers are over just to get through the day.
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Oasx posted:Can someone explain what exactly Dwayne Johnson's job is in the series? I get that he wants players to sign their money over to him, but what do they get from it? And what does his firm get out of managing other peoples money? Financial management you invest their money for them in stocks, real estate, whatever, give them an allowance that covers their expenditure like mortgage, car leases, living expenses, and you take a commission. The bulk of their money isn't burned through and it grows (or some rear end in a top hat steals it all). Also Rashad Mendenhall former pittsburgh steelers and arizona cardinals running back is a writer/assisstant on the show, to provide insight. I'm guessing this is like Entourage but a touch more serious. It can't be too far into the CTE poo poo or the NFL would pull the rights for them to use NFL team names. There was an ESPN show a while ago about profootballers that had the plug pulled because it showed drug use and domestic violence and even though it had nothing to do with the NFL the NFL nixed it really loving quick.
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pentyne posted:As far as I can tell he's the GM or the guy running the place while the GM is off on his boat. At the very least he can end some people's careers for causing him trouble. I'd guess he's the director of pro personnel or head of pro scouting. It's pretty much 2nd in command to the GM, they do most of the actual work finding free agents, the GM just signs off on the deals, gets all the credit and takes all the heat. physeter posted:The racial undertones are part of what's drawing me to the show. Ricky (black, unemployed) shows up at the white coach's boat, gets treated like a boy, lectured on his life choices by white Czonka and called an rear end in a top hat by great white god Don Shula. The only thing to add in that scene was Dan Marino eating an eggplant sandwich on the bow. With only one arguable Uncle Tom, everyone with power on this show has been white. Reggie is an rear end in a top hat, but I think there's plenty of not-so-subtle racial commentary going on in this show. It's pretty much how the sport is run unfortunately, so I hope someone doesn't decide to jump all over HBO for it. Hell Cam newton had to have a meeting with Richardson before the Panthers drafted him and he gave him a talking to about not getting tattoos and diamond earings and poo poo like that.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The question now is whether the writers will take advantage of the "I'm already busted, might as well tap dat rear end now" cliche. I kind of want Charles to remain the only straight-laced character. I like that his friend (gently caress forgot beardy's name) is actively telling him not to do it, rather than being the stereo typical dick who leads his friends astray it's a bit more depth to his character even if he is a womaniser in his own right.
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Jul 22, 2015 04:09
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Binary Logic posted:Me too. Johnson and Mark Wahlberg get plenty of money for their movie work, it would be nice to see more from this series than being this light-hearted tit-filled Strip club team meetings were part of what got Richie incognito in trouble, so a titty-bar bonding session isn't that contrived. As for the dude not putting his pants on, a former player got arrested for jackin' it outside a target in a parking lot about a year ago, again it's not that unusual. I know they're showing a lot of it, but players doing stupid poo poo is pretty much what you see week in and week out in the NFL offseason. The scum lawyers Machete charge speech was a little dumb but it didn't seem like that big of a stretch. Besides this show has been advertised as light entertainment in the same vein as entourage from day one. Maybe I'm alone here, but I didn't exactly go into this expecting much more than simple-ish plot lines, athletes doing fun and dumb stuff while cracking jokes at each other, some boobs, good music and player cameos. Which is pretty much what we've seen. It's not emmy worthy writing but for 28 minutes you get some cheap laughs, someone to hate and the Rock being the Rock.
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Jul 27, 2015 03:59
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Shooting Blanks posted:His job isn't to be good with money. It's to introduce the guys who are good with money to football players. This 1000x he's not the money manager.
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Jul 30, 2015 04:04
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Pron on VHS posted:lol pasty shut-in goons and rap is like vodka and milk Add some khalua and you've got yourself a white russian. White russians own.
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PaganGoatPants posted:It's already going wrong. They don't offer a giant contract like that and not have something go wrong. They can't even find what's his face. Can't the agent guy just say "yes" on his behalf? It's like a contract when buying a house or whatever, the agent negotiates it, presents it to his client then they go in and sign in the GM's office or whatever. Even if he said yes, he'd still need to locate his client and hope to hell he agreed. If he says yes and then his client says "gently caress that" he's screwed, teams won't trust him which hurts his viability as an agent etc.
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Because of this thread I watched all of brink. Tim Robbins owns owns owns.
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