A Night With Jeff And Ted

 

TigerBlog starts today with 12 minutes of one of the greatest characters in television history.

Seriously. TB would put him among the 10 best of all time, and that's saying something. 

Oh, and by the way, this may have some language issues, though TB is pretty sure you won't mind, and that you'll be rolling on the floor 13 minutes from now. So without further ado, here's 12 minutes of Roy Kent:

If you've never seen "Ted Lasso," then you need to stop what you're doing, go to Apple TV and start to binge.

If you have seen "Ted Lasso" but haven't seen "Shrinking," then you need to follow the steps above, only make it "Shrinking" instead. You'll be glad you did.

If you have seen both, then you can go about your day as normal. 

The most recent episode of "Ted Lasso," which was released yesterday, includes a tribute to Princeton's own Grant Wahl, who passed away over the winter while covering the World Cup in Qatar. Grant, in addition to being one of the world's all-time greatest soccer writers (and a former student worker in the Princeton Office of Athletic Communications), provided assistance to the "Ted Lasso" writers in developing certain storylines.

The episode ended with a tribute to Grant. It was pretty special.

Elsewhere, TigerBlog has been working on some of his ancestry. He's found his great-grandfather and then a few other living cousins he never knew he had.  

One of those cousins is named Ned Price. He has not yet found if he is related to Ted Price, Princeton Class of 1990.

That Price, and Jeff Ingold, were classmates on the men's squash team, and they have both gone on to overwhelming success, Price in the video game industry and Ingold in television comedies. They will be reunited tonight on the stage in McCosh 10, when they are joined by Ford Family Director of Athletics John Mack for the Princeton Varsity Club Jake McCandless Speaker Series.

You can get more information on the event HERE.

As an aside, Price and Ingold played for the great Bob Callahan, who passed away several years ago from a brain tumor. Callahan was one of the best human beings who ever walked into Jadwin Gym, and seeing his photo with Price and Ingold in the story made TB smile, and feel sad.

Ingold is a leading creative voice behind, among a lot of other great shows, "Ted Lasso" and "Shrinking." He's won back-to-back Emmy's with "Ted Lasso," and his resume also includes shows like "The Office," "Parks and Rec" and "Scrubs."

Price is the Founder of Insomniac Games, a leading video game developer than is now a part of Sony's Playstation Studio. Insomniac has produced the likes of Marvel's Spider Man, the Ratchet and Clank series and the Spyro the Drago. 

The event tonight is free and open to the public. 

TigerBlog had the great opportunity to speak with Ingold over a year ago for a feature story he wrote on goprincetontigers.com. You can read that story HERE.

Ingold was the college roommate for four years of Tom Barnds, a men's lacrosse player who now has two sons on the current team. It was Barnds who first told TB about Ingold, and this was long after TB was first hooked on "Ted Lasso."

In fact, when TB first started watching the first episode, he was reluctant to do so and figured he'd give it 10 minutes, because he thought it might be too much of a caricature. By the 10-minute mark, he was hooked. It's funny. It's poignant. The acting and writing are tremendous. It's no surprise that it has been as recognized as it has.

The same is true of "Shrinking." It took about five minutes to get hooked on that one as well.

So as he said, if you haven't seen it, get to it. Or, maybe you can start tomorrow. Tonight you should come see Ingold and Price.

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