WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Sean Payton stops short of calling the HBO series "Ballers" a realistic portrayal of life in pro football, even if he likes the show enough to have made a cameo appearance in this week's episode.
"I think it's entertaining. What they take is, I would say, every stereotype in the last 25 years and they roll it into a half-hour episode," Payton said Monday, a day after the first airing of the episode that includes him.
In the episode, Payton tries to entice high-profile free agent receiver Rickey Jerret to come to New Orleans from Miami.