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Jason Sudeikis revealed a personal connection to the first of the two real-life basketball coaches who also inspired Ted Lasso:
“I had my high school basketball coach, a fella named Donnie Campbell, you know, would do those little turns of phrases like Ted does. And, you know, I always loved those things, and he also was the one that really pretty much introduced myself and my teammates to John Wooden, who was the UCLA basketball coach that has a bunch of phrases that are more, like, philosophical than, you know, pop culture or quirky and whatnot.”
John Wooden was so famous for his motivational quotes that they became known as Woodenisms. Hearing pearls of Woodenist wisdom like, “The best competition I have is against myself to become better,” and, “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out,” it’s easy to see his influence on the character of Ted Lasso.
It wasn’t only football and basketball coaches, though, who inspired Ted Lasso in his current form. In a separate interview with The Guardian this month, Sudeikis said that after he saw “Donald Trump coming down the escalator,” giving rise to Trumpism in America, he decided to make Ted less “belligerent” on Apple TV+ than he was in his earliest NBC Sports skits. “Ted Lasso” has been promoted with phrases like, “Kindness is making a comeback,” and with his show premiering while the 45th U.S. president was still in office, maybe part of his popularity in season 1 stemmed from him being the anti-Trump, giving viewers a warm and kind escape from the horrors of 2020.
“Ted Lasso” in its complete form can be streamed on Apple TV+.
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