Irvin: I left there sore. Like, why am I sore? Why am I sore? We were just joking around out here. This got serious. One time I ran a route and felt my hammy tighten up. This is a TV show. This is your chance to be a hometown hero. If you really want to make this better, get after the pros, talk some crap. Well, man, sure as shit, the very first dude starts talking all this shit to Simeon Rice. The first play, Simeon scoops this dude up— boom —slams him on his head, fucking knocks him out. My bad.
We felt the same way. We wanted to bring it to them as well. I was flying around trying to deliver blows. I was trying to take people out—the old defensive mentality, growing up playing free safety in Pop Warner and in high school.
Some of that old mentality came out, giving me a chance to deliver the blow instead of receiving it. Papadakis: It was really just surviving event to event without someone getting seriously injured. And we would all breathe a collective sigh of relief. Irvin: I was with Randy Couture. When they were getting ready to close the octagon, Randy Couture went to a whole other place. Couture: It definitely got their attention when they unveiled the format and the cage.
These guys, the look in their eyes got a little different. It was pretty funny. Levy: One of my scariest stories was when Arturo Gatti was on the show.
I used to box. Arturo Gatti is a good example. Gatti was just fighting a dude off the street. Levy: This Joe just got lucky. It was like one of those half seconds of luck, and he caught Arturo Gatti with an actual shot to the face.
And his left was back out before the wind knocked his own face. And that Joe took it hard. I thought, this is where I get fired. No more combat sports. During those years, Papadakis and the crew rarely passed up an opportunity to party once taping wrapped. As people got more comfortable with each other on the show, people got more comfortable with each other after the show. Papadakis: Arturo Gatti must have fought like five fucking guys. Three rounds apiece.
Like a fucking animal. Getting punched. Socking people. Getting all crazy. We were in a hotel. Full suit. Hell no. Fuck no. You got to see that a lot of these guys were just whacked out. Because they were. Messick: The first [two] seasons, it was at the Home Depot Center. It was epic. We owned that place for eight weeks. Papadakis: By the second season, with our makeup girl, I opened a mini bar out of one of the suites.
Anybody who was cool and knew how to handle themselves, including Bruce Smith in full pads or Rik Smits, could come to the mini bar and have a drink. Papadakis: I started hanging out with the grip department. I hung out in their truck, which was called Club 80, the number of their union. Really, it was just a truck with people smoking weed in it. Lobo: He was smoking like a chimney. Papadakis: Fucking Charles Oakley stole my dressing room. He got his hair cut in my dressing room and all his hair clippings were everywhere.
He was unapologetic. Goldberg: Petros is a great guy. He has a plethora of knowledge. After the third season, Papadakis was replaced as the host by Glazer and Michael Strahan. To control costs during the final two seasons—or maybe just to pay for Glazer and Strahan—they also stopped shooting at night and made more edits in postproduction.
What remained uniform over the life of the show, however, was how desperately the Joes wanted to prove themselves—and how they expressed themselves to the Pros. There was a lot of shit-talking. And it was fun. Couture: [The Joes] talked a lot of crap to all the other competitors. It was kind of hilarious. Irvin: They put pads on and they were really trying to come up and make hits. This was their moment. Can you imagine if they make that play or make that stop?
Garcia: There was definitely arrogance. There was cockiness taking place. They felt like they were taking on some old-timers. You know, hey. More power to them if they thought they could step out there and take it to the pros. One, you have to be exceptional.
And two, you have to have a little bit of luck. You have to have the right coaches. You got to be in the right system. It has to really work for you sometimes. Irvin: The Joes, they were guys who played athletically and had played sports. They were competitive. They were ready. They were hype. And most of them were actually younger. We were retired guys that had been banged up and beat up. And they were going hard, oh my God. It was funny and great to watch. Weber: The play to end the whole thing was me tackling [Mike] Vick to end the game.
They tried to do a pitch and catch on a trick play and I sniffed it out. We knew we won the money. The show features male amateur contestants matching themselves against professional athletes in a series of athletic feats related to the expertise sport of the Pro they are facing.
For its first three seasons, the show was hosted by Petros Papadakis. The first two seasons were filmed at Carson, California's Home Depot Center, which was referenced in aerial shots. We don't have any reviews for Pros vs. View Edit History. Login to edit. Keyboard Shortcuts.
Login to report an issue. You need to be logged in to continue. Tony DeRosa-Grund. More like this. Storyline Edit. Add content advisory. User reviews 7 Review. Top review. No referee, Intentional Injury to Joes. I was surprised to see the show allow the "Pro" football players to continue to hit the Joe contestant after the man was down.
I watched the "Pros" Bill Goldberg and Kevin Greene continue to hit the contestant after he was down, and rough him up. This continued, over several downs, without a referee, until a contestant was injured, and limped off the field. The show's Director should have stopped the show the moment "Pro", Bill Goldberg, threatened to knock out the teeth of the contestants.
Bill Goldberg should have been thrown off the show, and the audience told that the show does not condone "Pros" intentionally injuring Joes. EdwardMurrow Mar 25, Details Edit. Release date March 6, United States. United States. Carson, California, USA. Mess Media.
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