ESPN 8

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ESPN 8 "The Ocho" is a fictional television channel used in the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. The channel's motto is "If it's almost a sport, we've got it!" and in the movie this is shown over clips of 'almost sports,' such as lawn mower racing. As a trivia point, Stephen Root, who is a player in the movie, also voices Bill on King of the Hill which did, in one episode, feature a lawnmower race.

ESPN 8 covers the dodgeball tournament in the movie (it appears to be the only channel doing so, although the IMDb goofs page for Dodgeball says that "the sponsor signs at the end of the court clearly say Fox Sports Net").

This channel pokes fun at ESPN constantly spawning new television channels which broadcast everything from soccer to hotdog eating contests. While such offbeat sporting events are still shown occasionally, this was the primary means of programming until securing broadcasting rights to the National Football League in 1987. Another quirk of ESPN that 'the ocho' pokes fun at is how they refer to ESPN2 as "the deuce"; a couple of months after Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story was released, ESPN stopped calling ESPN2 "the deuce".

This is a rare exception to movies produced by 20th Century Fox using the name of their sister network FSN as the broadcaster whenever sporting events are involved, though FSN can still be seen in the Dodgeball movie as the broadcaster of the cheerleading tournament that Justin participates in.