I wanted to know what would have happened if the lockout didn't work out? I know there was already a commitment-you guys said on Twitter-that whether there's football or not, we're going to have a season of The League. What would've happened maybe if it didn't happen? What kind of stories would we have gotten?
Jackie Marcus Schaffer: Here's what's awesome about this question is we get to finally set the record straight. I'm assuming that all the fine people on this call understand sarcasm. Jeff and I have-in some of these interviews given over the past six months-have given answers which were meant to be jokes, and people have printed them as serious things. What was the one you said, Jeff-the fantasy curling league?
Jeff Schaffer: Oh yeah. Fantasy curling league was definitely a joke. I'll tell you what might have-one of the things we definitely did talk about though, we did talk about Andre...He would've joined a fantasy NBA league only find out they too were locked out. So it would've been very disappointing for him.
Jackie Marcus Schaffer: That one was real. But I think that we've talked about the notion of what would've happened, and what was really interesting is the fan base that grew between Seasons 2 and 3 watching the show online, finding it on Hulu, finding the DVD, started to understand that this wasn't a show that was primarily about sports. And we think that the idea is that this is first and foremost a comedy. And what could be funnier than watching something very precious taken away from our favorite frustrated characters. So that would've been, we think, the first place we would've started...watching them suffer. And then if you look at the shows, a lot of the shows aren't dependent on fantasy football. We started to realize as we were going through our own writing process, we could easily make the show without the sport; it just makes it so much better because we love it. And it's a passion of theirs and a passion of ours.
Jeff Schaffer: Yeah, the show is a comedy about guys who play fantasy football. It's not a comedy about fantasy football, if you know what I mean. But we definitely would have explored the relationships between the guys. "Hey, if there's no league, are we really going to hang out together?" So that's the big avenue we would've explored. And we actually-
Jackie Marcus Schaffer: And when Jeff says that, he means, are they really going to hang out with Andre?
Jeff Schaffer: Yes.
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