Have there ever been any others besides the Alec Loundes story on OLTL and the the Johnny Morrissey boxing stuff on GH in the early 80s? I can't think of any others. Obviously the reason for lack of sports storylines in that they wouldn't appeal to 18-49-year-old women. Do you think that's an accurate assessment? I know a ton of women in this age range who are really gung-ho about sports. Many gay men--another large percentage of the viewing audience that one would think would eschew sports--enjoy sports. I should know...I'm one of them. Do you think the soaps would have success telling a storyline that included some sort of sport? If could be done in the way "The Game" does it, with football as just the background for romantic entanglements, I think it could work. Your thoughts?

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Has GH ever had any in recent years?

the last one I recall was Jagger's boxing in the early 90s. Why the heck are there so many boxing ones?

Dynasty had a boring as hell storyline about Steven Carrington owning a football team and the quarterback being hooked on coke and sleeping with Sammy Jo. It would have been more interesting if Steven was getting gangbanged in the locker room.

Fallon pretty much banged her way through the entire football team in the first season...lol

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Yeah, I remember seeing that clip of Erica (early '80s) in a gold sequined number getting carried off by a football team. I thought it was the New Orleans Saints, though.

Maybe it was the Saints! I just rememeber the picture/clip, not the s/l. I'll look it up...

Boxing-related stories that weren't actually about boxing:

Tom Desmond on RH used to have a lot of scenes in mid/late 1978 during the "Terry the Tumor" phase where he would go and box and beat up unsuspecting men who just thought it was going to be fun sparring. He wore glow in the dark short shorts.

Damian on ATWT had this type of story in 1995 (minus the shorts)

In GL's radio days, Meta's ex husband insisted their son become more of a man, and kept making him box. At one point the poor boy was so badly hit that he died. Meta shot her ex to death and was acquitted, by a public jury, under temporary insanity.

I remember Erica with the Cowboys.

Maybe it was the Saints! I just rememeber the picture/clip, not the s/l. I'll look it up...

http://sn.soapnet.go.com/galleries/ericas-hottest-moments?page=0,2

that's the last one i remember too, cheap.

I don't get soaps fascination with boxing.

I think the rich, powerful owner of a sports team and his wife and kids could be an interesting core family on a show.

GOD yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. On Dynasty, Blake owned (or partially owned) a football team and Fallon had some really great snarky lines about that at Blake and Krystle's first wedding. I can't even remember exactly what she said, something about one of the players being a "mattress-back." I wonder what would have happened if Dynasty went in that direction, instead of focusing on the oil company.

But yes. This needs to happen (*knows it never will*). Of course I want the owner's son to fool around with the tight end. And his young wife can be shocked to discover that one of the young rookies is the child she sold on the black market when she was 15.

Funny you mentioned that, bc Ive wanted AMC to bring Reggie back with a new gf (maybe Danielle) and look to that show for inspiration. Write them like Derwin and Melanie with him being a new rookie to a PA football team which has him relocating to PV to play

I thought Reggie was a basketball player, though? They could kind of transpose the story from football to basketball and make it work.

That kid on ATWT boxed too. And wasn't that guy Doc (?) involved with Jessica somehow related to sports? I know the actor, D.J., was a former player IRL. GL had that expensive baseball diamond set for the high schoolers' baseball storyline. Boomer Esiason guested on AMC and didn't Erica in her black and gold get carried nto the field by the Steelers?

Yeah, Doc Reese was a former football player. In fact, he worked at WOAK as the sports anchor on the news.

I remember the GL story with Shayne playing baseball. That was like the beginning of GL's descent into small town/middle class craziness. Not that I mind the idea of that kind of soap, but GL?? Nah.

I thought Reggie was a basketball player, though? They could kind of transpose the story from football to basketball and make it work.

he was a basketball player but I think I'd prefer football. Really it doesnt matter.

that's when Erica infamously drove a racecar.

... and WON!

Yup, it was the Saints, the cowboy hat throws the memory but I knew she wasn't in the silver and blue:

And his young wife can be shocked to discover that one of the young rookies is the child she sold on the black market when she was 15.

WOW!

Yeah, Doc Reese was a former football player. In fact, he worked at WOAK as the sports anchor on the news.

I actually met that guy at an acting workshop in L.A. like ten years ago where he shared that he'd played ball. He had some of the ladies in the class swooning. A while later, I saw him pop up on GH as a (rather stiff) reporter. Next thing you know he was on contract over at ATWT in NY.

I'm slow Pine Charles, sorry, didn't see that you'd already posted that pic.

the last one I recall was Jagger's boxing in the early 90s. Why the heck are there so many boxing ones?

Boxing is the perfect sport for drama. It's an individual sport, it is seedy with a hint of desperation, there is nothing abstract about it and it is visually dramatic.

Boxing is the perfect sport for drama. It's an individual sport, it is seedy with a hint of desperation, there is nothing abstract about it and it is visually dramatic.

And it's probably easier and much, much, much cheaper for a soap to work with. All they have to build is one-half of a ring and there ya go. Sure beats trying to construct a football field or baseball diamond or basketball court, though they could just go on location.

I remember the GL story with Shayne playing baseball. That was like the beginning of GL's descent into small town/middle class craziness. Not that I mind the idea of that kind of soap, but GL?? Nah.

Didn't GL spend an insane amount of money just so that they could built a baseball diamond set for that storyline?

I did like that even until the end GL remembered Shane being a baseball player and I think he ended up as the little league baseball coach in the final episode.

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