Sun Jun 01, 2008 12:36 pm EDT
The television graveyard is dotted with tombstones from cancelled ESPN Original Programs; some deserved ("Quite Frankly") and others unfortunate (many a hazy evening at Puck Daddy HQ was spent watching "Cheap Seats," the sports world response to "MST3K").
"Teammates" was one of those short-lived ESPN game shows that was probably ahead of its time: A revamp of "The Newlywed Game" that had players like Carson Palmer and Chad Johnson answering questions to see how well they really knew each other. Aired during Summer 2005, it was rather funny; maybe viewers just couldn't handle Stuart Scott playing the Bob Eubanks role.
The clip below is from an episode featuring some sports stars from Detroit: The Pistons' Chauncey Billups and Rip Hamilton, and the Detroit Red Wings' Darren McCarty and Brendan Shanahan. (Scot Shields and Brendan Donnelly of the Angels rounded out the panel, probably because no one gave a damn about the Tigers back then.) The question to McCarty: "What's the worst thing Shanny has ever done to you?" The answer, and Shanahan's response, are rather awesome:
Thanks to YouTube user Emmykn for this find. We're not sure how much footage from "Teammates" is floating around out there, but here's our request: There's an episode with Jeremy Roenick and Sean Burke, then of the Flyers, predicting how Keith Primeau will answer questions like, "Who's more likely to be a good luck charm in Vegas?" We smell comedy gold; any leads, please e-mail us.
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Shanny was a great Wing. When the Rangers come to town (not Detroit), I get tix just to watch him play. Ofcourse I'm not rooting for the Rangers, but he's a great player that I grew up watching.
I bet he has at least 1 more good year of play in him. I hope he does come back to Detroit. It'd be awesome to see him skate in the red and white one more time. Go Wings!!!!
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It was, in fact, the problem.
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A couple of naked dudes singing to each other and stretching.
Cute.
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That's not much my problem however.
That was the worst attempt at a joke, at least some of your fellow Wings fans had more creative terms for the city.
I'm willing to bet that you are overweight Sandy, just my guess.
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It's so true. I was naked stretching all the time in the FanHouse. The only guy who never seemed to mind was Schultz.
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Sorry,I didn't really mean to knock your city,or your team .I think we both have great hockey teams. I'm not overweight!!, today is my first time on a Blog. I love creativity from both teams & cities!!! I love the game and love the playoffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Of course I want the Wings to win,but if the Pens won,they would deserve it,they have come a long way in the last few years,and have some great players who will be around a long time.Good Luck on your team
"GO WINGS"
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