1st and 10
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| Genre | Sports talk and debate |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Starring | Jay Crawford and Skip Bayless, with guest panelists |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Original channel | ESPN (2003-) |
| Original run | October 20, 2003–Present |
- Not to be confused with "1st and 10", a situation in American football which occurs at first down.
- Not to be confused with 1st & Ten (TV series), an American situation comedy.
- Not to be confused with 1st & Ten (graphics system), a television graphics technology system for use in American football telecasts.
1st and 10 is a sports talk and debate television program spun off from ESPN2's Cold Pizza morning show.
It is both a segment during Cold Pizza, a two-hour program broadcast on the American cable television network ESPN2, each weekday at 10:00 AM and noon ET and a standalone program on ESPN at 3:00 PM each afternoon. The show is similar in format to ESPN's other afternoon sports talk programs Jim Rome is Burning, Around the Horn, and Pardon the Interruption.
What makes this show different from the others is that there are two panelists who talk about topics without any scoring system (as on Horn) or set amount of time given to a topic (PTI). Also, there are no "theme" segments or interviews with athletes and celebrities (several of the other shows), nor do either of the panelists face "elimination" at the end of a segment (also a feature of Horn).
The program is hosted by Jay Crawford and features sports columnist Skip Bayless. Woody Paige, another columnist, was a founding co-host, but has left the show. Dana Jacobson, Cold Pizza co-host, takes over the segments (and the spin-off show) when Crawford is away.
The program is filmed in New York City, New York, but has sometimes gone on location.
During the show/segment, Skip Bayless and another panelist discuss and debate ten items of significant sports news daily, with the full program ultimately divided into four segments, termed, as in American football, whence comes also the program's title, downs. Viewer e-mail is often read at the beginning of each segment and incorporated into discussion.
Crawford joined ESPN as co-host of Cold Pizza in 2003 having previously served as director of sports programming at WFTS-TV in Tampa, Florida. Paige, having frequently been a panelist on ESPN's Around the Horn whilst on the staff of the Denver Post, for which he had worked for more than thirty years, left the Post in 2004 to become a full-time employee of ESPN; however, he left the show on November 28, 2006 to return to the Post. Bayless, formerly a columnist for the Dallas Morning News, Miami Herald, and San Jose Mercury News, also left print journalism to join ESPN in 2004.
It is assumed that the show will use guest panelists indefinitely, eventually finding a permanent replacement for Paige, who has left New York City for Denver, Colorado.
Ironically, given the origin of the show's name, the spin-off program is not seen on Mondays during the National Football League season. ESPN shows a special two-hour "pre-pre-game" edition of SportsCenter instead, from 3 to 5 p.m. Eastern time.
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[edit] Guest panelists
[edit] Since Paige's departure
- Roy S. Johnson, Sports Illustrated (November 29, 30 and December 1, 2006)
- Marty McNeal, Sacramento Bee (December 4-8, 2006)
- Mark Cannizaro, New York Post (December 11, 2006)
- Jay Feely, placekicker, New York Giants (December 12, 2006)
- Tony Massarotti, Boston Herald (December 13-15, 2006)
NOTE: The Dec. 4 and 11 episodes were seen only on ESPN2 as part of Cold Pizza.
[edit] Before Paige's departure
[edit] Running themes
- Bayless is known to take shots at Terrell Owens whenever possible, referring to him by the name "Terribly Overrated" or "Team Obliterator", a play on his nickname of "T.O." and his past incidents with the San Francisco 49ers and the Philadelphia Eagles.
- Paige has a character called "Professor Screwloose" which he will occasionally go into, wearing a white Einstein-like wig with large black-rimmed glasses and a beret or mortarboard. As "Screwloose", Paige will explain his side of an argument with a chalkboard laden with nonsensical logic that is supposed to prove his point. Meanwhile, playful music plays quietly in the background, while the camera makes cuts to Bayless, who is often seen with a confused look on his face.
- Paige has a David Letterman-esque countdown called his "Nifty Nine", which he will use to make a more humorous argument on a topic.
- Paige will often use props to emphasize his arguments. If he is proven wrong in his opinion, or if the prop fails to work as desired, Paige will simply throw the prop away, where it will land somewhere off-camera.
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