Earlier this week sports radio stations across the Southeast turned their attention away from the Covid-19 pandemic and leagues’ plans to return to play to focus instead on an article from the Charlotte Observer.
In an interview with Scott Fowler, the SEC Network’s Paul Finebaum said that a sitcom about his life is progressing. Writers have already been hired to work on a script and “a well-known actor is extremely interested in playing the lead.” The Big Lead joined in the fun on Wednesday with a column speculating on just who that actor might be.
“Well, based on what we know — that he’s younger than the broadcaster — it could be anyone,” Kyle Koster wrote in the column. “Yet one figures physical resemblance would play a major role in casting.”
Koster eventually settled on two names. The first he threw out was Michael Kelly, best known as Doug on House of Cards. Kelly rarely plays characters with a lot of patience, so Koster says it is hard to see him playing a character that has to listen to people like the I Man and Phyllis from Mulga talk about defensive schemes.
His other suggestion is Anthony Carrigan, who has had major roles on two TV shows, Gotham and Barry. Carrigan is bald and has shown his ability to go from insanely funny to super serious. Maybe he is a good fit.
The real question that has to be answered before we can speculate is what does “well-known actor” mean to Paul Finebaum? There is a major difference between having name recognition and being a major get. Hell, Jaleel White of Steve Urkel fame is a “well-known actor.”
If I were a betting man, I would say Koster may be on to something with looking to the House of Cards cast to find the right guy to play Pawwwl. He just picked the wrong guy.
My money would be on Corey Stoll. In addition to a high-profile role in the first season of the Netflix series, he also was in the spotlight as the villain in Ant-Man and has made regular appearances on both Billions and The Deuce in recent years. Plus, he’s bald, which may be requirement number 1.
