He just got on Twitter out of nowhere and straight-up said something like, “I hereby call myself leader of the ‘Ted Lasso’ fan club.” I’m like: “Barry Jenkins? We thought the show would be decent, because we had a pretty good writer’s room, and we had a good time writing it. “Ted Lasso” references have started appearing in sports culture — Alex Morgan did a Lasso dance on the field not long ago, and N.B.A. The Alex Morgan dance for sure, because that’s really going the extra mile. He was like, “Yeah, we watched it; we watched it a lot.” We were like, “What?” I mean, we don’t get soccer right — we know that.

Source: New York Times July 13, 2021 23:26 UTC