Didn't see this posted. Triple H: Herm, HBO and Hard Knocks By Mark La Monica Diddling around on the password-protected HBO Media site in search of any news and photos about Season 4 of "Entourage" for my Entourage blog the other day, I got flustrated with the lack of new information and clicked on the HBO Sports link. Those who caught the reference in that last sentence and combined it with the keywords in the headline know what's next. Herm Edwards is back on the national scene! HBO Sports is bringing back its awesome behind-the-scenes reality series Hard Knocks (finally!), the inside look at training camp with a particular team. The first two years had the Ravens and Cowboys. This year, HBO heads to the University of Wisconsin-River Falls to chronicle Herm Edwards. OK, the Kansas City Chiefs, too. But seriously, can anyone think of a better reason to watch than the potential for new Hermisms. Will there be another "We're on the bus"? Or maybe some poisoned Kool-Aid? Can something come closer to topping his "Helloooo? You play to win the game!"? You just don't know with Herm. For five years, the New York Jets fans and media were treated to the magic and aura (and yes, some poor clock management) of Herm Edwards. This is the second year Kansas City fans can appreciate the magic and aura (and yes, some poor clock management) of Herm Edwards. Now, the entire cable-subscribing nation can sit back every Wednesday night for a month at 10 p.m. starting August 8 and come understand the magic and aura (and yes, some poor clock management) of Herm Edwards. And then they can do it again with encore replays Thursday nights. What lucky star did we settle under to get this treatment? This is going to be just as exciting as watching Entourage each week to see what kind of drama Johnny Drama will get into. Oh, Herm, please don't disappoint us. Luckily, there's little chance of that. He's Herm, and this is reality television. The nature of this so-called genre, with its sounds-better moniker of "unscripted drama," yields story lines based upon what happens. There will be some quarterback drama unfolding since Trent Green was finally traded. And there will be plenty of on- and off-field Herm. There's a 24-person crew from NFL Films in Wisconsin to produce this show. Certainly one of them knows to keep a camera on Herm at all times. H-E-R-M. Herm! Herm! Herm!
Are you kidding? there's no way I'm not seeing this. Weather or not you like Herm, you have to admit, he's entertaining. Besides, watching behind the scenes like this is always interesting.
I am looking forward to it, not b/c of Herm but b/c I love the show and when it was on HBO it was much better than the NFLN version so I amery happy it's going back to HBO.
I wish I was. That's what he was doing the night before the start of training camp. And in the morning, he was jogging. There was really no exposure of him actually coaching. It was all encouragement and "Welcome to Training Camp" signs.
