Rob McElhenney on Buying Wrexham Team and Pitching it to FX

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00:00I had this idea one night and I in a flurry wrote an email to a few people and then I googled how

00:08do you buy a football team for real and this gentleman's name came up who worked for this

00:13agency in in New York City and I called him and then from there I once once he said okay I think

00:20this is a possibility I the next call I made was to John Landgraf. Wow at FX who you obviously for

00:26those who don't know it's always sunny in Philadelphia the longest running sitcom in

00:31television history and that has been on FX all these 17 16 17 seasons yes and that's the head

00:38of FX. John yes he's the head of FX and has been for a very long time he's also one of my really

00:43great friends and believe me he's passed on things that I brought him um he's he's very clear with

00:49what he likes and what he doesn't like and so I knew if I I went for a walk with him on a walk

00:56with him and I pitched out how I saw this going over the next this was three years ago how I saw

01:01it going over the next five to ten years and I said I think it can only happen if if I can

01:07underwrite a tremendous amount of the cost but also of the opportunity by having a docuseries.