Disc Golf Hits Prime Time TV
The PDGA was contacted by Paramount Studios in early August to submit PDGA branded items for use as product placement on the ABC television show, "Happy Endings". The sitcom places a fresh and comedic spin on modern friendship, focusing on six lifelong Chicago-based friends in their 20's and early 30's navigating various stages of work, relationships, marriage, and dating. The disc golf themed episode is currently set to air on Wednesday, September 28th following "Modern Family".
While increasing interest and popularity of this sport is evident in the worldwide participation and growing membership of Disc golfers, portrayal of this sport in the media is imperative for prosperity and awareness on a global level. Television is a monumental step in securing our place in sports history.
So Disc Golfers and "Frisbeeterians", spread the word and Tune in to ABC on September 28th. If not for the sake of the sport, then to ensure that you will never have to explain the definition of Disc Golf again.
Thanks for the reminder
If the PDGA paid for any of that and considers that a transformation of any sort of opinion I am embarrassed.
no way they would pay, knowing it was going to be called, "frolf"
i'm guessing they were contacted and asked to donate frolf, excuse me, disc golf items
Very lame. said it was not a sport. not something to help the sport at all. who the hell calls it frolf anyway?
I guess I wouldn't have any negative reaction had they not promoted it like it was the second coming of disc golf christ. At least now I can go to work tomorrow and be ensured that I won't have to explain the definition of Disc Golf again!
Did they show people throwing to a basket? I turned this show on for like 5 minutes and it was so god awful I couldn't handle waiting around for the disc golf part.
There are no baskets in frolf.
no baskets. but they showed a guy teeing off and shanked it sooo bad, it hit his friend in the head standing 3 ft away. very very silly!
From PDGA-
QuoteI think we can all agree the "frolf" episode of Happy Endings on ABC last night was not what we were hoping it would be. We were told by ABC that the episode was centered around disc golf, and they even asked us to send them some PDGA stuff to use on the set. We're sorry if we built it up without knowing exactly what the episode would entail, but the idea of disc golf on prime time television definitely had us excited, understandably.
Bad press is sometimes better than no press, but in this case no one benefited. Our biggest hope for the episode was that if someone watching didn't know what disc golf was, they would at least have an idea after. Unfortunately for all parties involved, that was not the case.
QuoteI'm not sure how to react to anyone who is angry with us over a show we didn't write. We were under the impression that the episode would have a lot more to do with disc golf than it did. We were excited about it and we aren't going to apologize for being excited about it. You all were excited about it too! If we had any opportunity to look at the script or get a preview of what was going to happen, we would have, but we didn't. We took a chance by promoting the episode, and we apologize to anyone who is embarrassed or ashamed if they did the same. It would have been an even bigger mistake to NOT promote the episode, especially if it had turned out really good
Just watched it on Hulu. That was 20 minutes I'd like back.
Frolf is not a sport, disc golf is!!!