that's exciting for a minute

i watched perhaps the best concept for a reality show last night. and it was by total accident. pros vs. joes premiered last night on spike tv. whenever do i fucking watch spike tv? i can't even remember how i ended up there (or maybe i have a secret obsession with ultimate fighting).

anyway...the title tells all. retired pros from any sport compete against average joes. and i'm not talking about that hunk of a guy that shared a million bucks with zora a few years back. high school and college athletes compete against former pro athletes at their specialty. it was great.

for instance,
the three schmucks had to cover jerry rice on 3 plays (from 30 yards, 20 yeards and 5 yards out). the person that stops him from scoring a touchdown the most wins the round.

during the final round, they had to get ONE rebound against dennis rodman.

a little more lame, but they had to field ground balls hit by matt williams.

on the same level as the rodman thing, they had to try to put goldberg on his back in the square circle.

what else...they had a cheap driving contest (not against a pro golfer of course), had a pass accuracy contest against jim mcmahon. i think that's it for last night.

it was amazing tv. it wasn't the best, but think about it. we've all had dreams of doing this type of shit. trying to cover rice? sure he's old now and has dropped a step since he was dancing on ABC. but shit. as you can imagine, he truly made everyone look like shit. christ...all the pros towered over these average guys (height around 5'10" or so). it was crazy. i don't think i'm hooked enough to watch it all the time, but the promos showed other hijenks such as trying to hit a john rocker fastball and some other crazy shit. i can't stop thinking about it.

i guess its officially on monday's at 10, but since its on one hell of a cable channel, i'm sure they will re-run it to death. check it out.