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07.15.09 A COMEDY ABOUT A FANTASY FOOTBALL LEAGUE?

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FX has begun production on a pilot called “The League,” about a group of men in the same fantasy football league in suburban Chicago.  Under-the-radar indie actor Mark Duplass will star in the main role.

“The League” follows the group as they deal with issues of friendship, relationships and parenthood.  Duplass stars along with Nick Kroll (”I Love You Man”), Paul Sheer (“Human Giant”), Steve Rannazzisi (”Paul Blart: Mall Cop”) and Jon Lajoie. Also in the cast are Leslie Bibb (“Iron Man”), Katie Aselton (”The Office”) and Nadine Velazquez (”My Name Is Earl”).

In the pilot, Duplass plays Pete, a married man pondering whether to have a baby. “God bless fantasy football,” Pete says in the script. “There are many things a man can do with his time. This is better than those things.” [Variety]

I definitely don’t hate this.  That’s a pretty good cast, and FX seems to genuinely care about making smart, edgy TV programs.  It’s basically the opposite of CBS.

(And since I don’t really have anything else to say about this, I’d just like to point out that Duplass stars in True Adolescents, an indie movie currently making the film festival rounds that was written and directed by an NYU film school grad student named Craig Johnson, who used to be my roommate.  Because that’s what really matters: how does it relate to me?  Anyway, small world.  You don’t care.  Move along.)

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There are 21 comments about:
A COMEDY ABOUT A FANTASY FOOTBALL LEAGUE?

July 15th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
CrabApple says:

I gave up on FF after the guy who, never even heard about the game of “football” wins every fucking year.

July 15th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Vodka says:

Ahh, my fellow Bears fans. So proud of you guys.

July 15th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Taco_Jones says:

Fourth guy in has McCallister and Henry as his keepers? Good luck, bud. I hope this picture was taken in 2004 for his sake.

July 15th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
WhyDoYouAsk says:

I won’t watch this if their league includes Individual Defensive Players.

July 15th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Kid Presentable says:

Johnson thought up the title for True Adolescents after finding Ufford’s copies of XXX-Tremely Naughty Children and Young’ens Exposed.

Also the fact Tomlinson went 9th in a circa-2006 draft bothers me.

July 15th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Upstate Underdog says:

“God bless fantasy football, There are many things a man can do with his time. This is better than those things.”

It’s as if the script writer and I are the same person.

July 15th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Upstate Underdog says:

@KP, that must of happened when they were roommates at the YMCA.

Also, look close, the first 2 guys are keepers.

July 15th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Kid Presentable says:

Thank you UU, I recant my previous statement.

July 15th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Bobman says:

and Nadine Velazquez (”My Name Is Earl”).

Oh, please say she hops up and down in a bikini on this show, too….

July 15th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
ILovePaleHoseandPaleHos says:

@Bobman – I’d watch her read the phonebook for a half-hour.*

*And masturbate furiously

July 15th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Punch Rockgroin says:

I grew up with a kid named Craig Johnson.

It’s probably not the same person.

July 15th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Matt says:

That guy in the USA hat only has four fingers on each hand. Well three fingers and a thumb.

July 15th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
jackin'4beats says:

@Matt: was that a Peter King-esque reference to your NYU film school friend who is known by none of us? Toone P. Wiggins would not be happy with you.

And yeah I just noticed dude on the right has only 8 fingers. What the hell happened to that guy?

July 15th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Enrico Pallazzo says:

Best. Show. Ever. It better include the pre-requisite “attempt to draft a dead guy”. I think I’ve tried to draft Korey Stringer 6 years in a row now.

July 15th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Butters says:

Well I think this will be pretty good.

July 15th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Tim Was Tim says:

Guy with 8 fingers also has a wedding band.
Who’s the lucky lady?

July 15th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
The Comish (sic) says:

@Tim Was Tim:

One of the Simpsons?

July 15th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
The Comish (sic) says:

@Taco:
“Fourth guy in has McCallister and Henry as his keepers? Good luck, bud.”

Check out the 5th guy. His keepers appear to be Steve Young (retired in 1999) and Marques Colston (entered the league in 2006).

However, I am ecstatic that we’ve managed to find a board that actually includes a 7th round Akili Smith selection. That’s humiliation frozen in amber.

July 16th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
BM says:

is it this Jon Lajoie? (I usually hate comedy-songs but this is good)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxp3zqIqO68

July 17th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Markus says:

@ Tim was Tim

Maybe Jim Lampley’s sister-in-law?

July 18th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Darren says:

I think that’s a 2007 draft board. Vince Young is listed as a keeper by one delusional individual, and Marshawn Lynch is listed as a 5th round pick, and Lynch would certainly have went higher in last year’s draft. Yes, you’re right; it is pathetic that I spent several minutes analyzing the draft board.

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