Athlete Reality Shows?

Athlete's are barely tolerable on talk-shows and in press conferences. So when I heard a couple of them would be debuting their own reality shows this summer I was underwhelmed. But then when I heard the concepts of the different shows I decided I would have to take a wait and see approach.

I am not sure if any of you wasted the time to watch the T.O. Show on VH1 on Monday. But if you did I apologize for the waste of your life. The show was scripted horribly and showed us nothing new about T.O. He cried, he bitched and he took his shirt off. I have already seen T.O. do all of these things. T.O. also apparently doesn't have any friends and has to hang out with his publicists and some actress hired to play a real estate agent! If I was basing my stance on athlete reality shows on the pilot of this God awful mess, I would definitely be disinterested.

But there is another athlete reality show coming out this summer, and this one has extreme amounts of potential. Shaq, who is one of the most entertaining athletes on the planet, will be starring in a show on ABC. His show will pit him against other super star athletes in their respective sports. He will swim against Micheal Phelps, play tennis against the Williams sister, play football with Ben Rothlisberger, and many other stars. This will be fantastic!

T.O. doesn't have the personality to carry a show. He has already turned off the majority of America with his antics in the locker room and on the field. Shaq, on the other hand, is a funny guy with a personality almost as large as he is. It will also be fun to see what kind of athlete he really is. So I say athlete reality shows are ok as long as they are interesting people. Live like no one is watching, and save the drama!