The Best Damn Sports Show Period was a sports television show on Fox Sports Net and Comcast SportsNet. The show regularly featured irreverent and opinionated interviews with top athletes, coaches, celebrities, and entertainers. It also aired Top 50 countdown shows and other sports speciality shows. Since its debut on July 23, 2001, BDSSP has welcomed thousands of guests and has aired more than 1,300 episodes. The last original show aired June 30,...
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The Best Damn Sports Show Period was a sports television show on Fox Sports Net and Comcast SportsNet. The show regularly featured irreverent and opinionated interviews with top athletes, coaches, celebrities, and entertainers. It also aired Top 50 countdown shows and other sports speciality shows. Since its debut on July 23, 2001, BDSSP has welcomed thousands of guests and has aired more than 1,300 episodes. The last original show aired June 30, 2009, however, FSN will tape a handful of Top 50 specials.
The show aired weeknights at 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. local time, usually after FSN Final Score, or later if there was a local live sporting event that ran longer than expected, depending on the region and telecast schedule.
In 1999, FSN's nightly sports news show - Fox Sports News and what was later re-named the National Sports Report - was losing ratings ground to ESPN's SportsCenter. FSN needed a show that could compete with other cable sports networks while providing entertaining, edgy,...
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