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Playmakers is an American television series that aired on ESPN from August 26, 2003 to November 11, 2003. It depicted the lives of the Cougars, a fictional professional football team in an unidentified city. The show starred Omar Gooding, Marcello Thedford, Christopher Wiehl, Jason Matthew Smith, Russell Hornsby, and Tony Denison. The show, which ran eleven episodes, was the first original drama series created by ESPN. Although the ratings were very high for ESPN—Playmakers was the highest-rated show on the network other than its Sunday night NFL and Saturday college football games—ESPN eventually canceled the series under pressure from the National Football League, who thought professional football was being negatively portrayed.

Polêmica e audaciosa, Playmakers expõe uma faceta desconhecida do mundo do esporte.

Serie dramatica basada en un ficticio equipo de fútbol americano, plagado de problemas como la tensión racial y el abuso de drogas. La serie fue cancelada después de una sola temporada supuestamente por solicitud de la NFL que la vio como una grosera distorsión de la imagen de sus jugadores.