Every sport has a Hollywood classic. Even hockey has one, with "Slap Shot." Every sport except football, that is.
As HBO trotted out the cliched "Ballers" series premiere, we were all reminded again that even though football has been America's most popular sport for decades now, Hollywood has never gotten big-time football quite right.
"Ballers" touched on the tried-and-true Players Behaving Badly stories that I guess still have some appeal to the masses. Everyone seems to have spent all their money as soon as it comes in, it was easy to recognize the story lines of family and friends bleeding a player dry, there was sex at the club, fights at the club, fast talking agents, extravagant purchases (Steven Jackson has a cameo and brags about buying an elephant for about a quarter of a million bucks) .