If you are unaware that there is a quarterback named Jordan Love on the Green Bay Packers and another named Jalen Hurts on the Philadelphia Eagles, and that together their surnames comprise the title of (and the choral lyrics from) the 1976 power ballad version of “Love Hurts” by Nazareth, and that the two QBs will face each other on Friday, September 6 in a São Paulo, Brazil-based Week 1 NFL game exclusively on Peacock , you must not have streamed much of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics . If you did , then you know exactly what I’m talking about. And you would be equally well-aware that NBA all-time great (and now gold-medalist!) Stephen Curry stars in new Peacock sitcom “Mr.
Throwback” opposite Adam Pally. The two Peacock promotions ran incessantly through the Olympics, which included an (expected, yet cool nonetheless) undefeated run to gold by the U.S.
men’s basketball team. LeBron James was named the tournament’s MVP, and deservedly so, but it was Curry who scored 60 combined points in the semifinal (36 points, the most for anyone on any team at the Paris Olympics) and final (24 points) games. You know what’s even better than scoring 36 points to send your team of NBA all-stars to the gold-medal game? When your debut sitcom premieres on the same platform on which people watched the near-record performance, and on the same day.
That’s exactly what happened — talk about corporate synergy. David Caspe, the creator of “ Mr. Throwback ” and a self-des.