Shaq VS Ben Roethlisberger

Shaq VS Ben Roethlisberger-Shaq Vs Season 1 Episode 1.A new television reality series featuring the NBA SuperStar Shaquille O’Neal which entitled Shaq VS. Truly, Shaq entertains us when he plays basketball in the NBA yet he has the charisma to be in television as he shows us his talent outside basketball. Shaq Vs Season 1 Episode 1 is entitled “Ben Roethlisberger” as Shaq pay a visit to the NFL quarterback in a football challenge. Yes, Shaq personally went to the training facility of the Pittsburg Steelers during their practice to play 7 on 7 to Ben.

The weekly one-hour show features O’Neal challenging other stars in that opponents’ sport. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, tracking Shaq’s adventures expecially after he filmed a series episode last week against Cardinals’ baseball superstar Albert Pujols, includes tonight’s show among its “TV picks” (note that St. Louis time is CDT, thus the 8 p.m. start there).

Writes Gail Pennington for the Post-Dispatch:

NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal takes on other top athletes in their own sports. First up: Ben Roethlisberger, quarterback of the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers. Olympic beach volleyball gold medalists Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor follow next week, with the Cardinals’ Albert Pujols up in Episode 3. The format has Shaq negotiating a handicap with his opponents and training in advance of each challenge.

The trend: The Los Angeles Times, quite familiar with O’Neal after his lengthy tenure with the Lakers, notes that Shaq’s show is the latest that offers an inside look at sports stars.

Diane Pucin writes for the Times:

Dan Durbin, a professor at USC’s Annenberg School of Communications who specializes in pop culture and sports media, isn’t surprised at the proliferation of such sports-star shows scattered across network and cable television.

“Reality shows are relatively inexpensive to produce,” he said. “And athletes provide television pop.”

The sports-star craze began in earnest with the summer 2005 launch of “Dancing With the Stars,” a ratings — and revenue — powerhouse for ABC from the get-go.

The show began with one athlete, boxer Evander Holyfield, who lost. But athletes have won five of the last six.

Shaq Vs Season 1 Episode shown on ABC on August 18, 2009. Absolutely, will be in laughter or in amazement for Shaq is truly the “bomb”!