A year ago, Omaha Productions, the entertainment studio founded by former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, was wrapping up production of “Quarterback,” a Netflix series that followed Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins and Marcus Mariota through an NFL season.
But Manning was also watching women’s basketball. He was close friends with Pat Summitt from his college years at Tennessee. Now, along with much of the country, he was being introduced to Iowa star Caitlin Clark as she tore through the NCAA tournament. He saw Iowa upset South Carolina in an epic Final Four game, and he watched Clark lose an action-packed final against Angel Reese and LSU. And, he said, he wondered: If there’s interest in going behind the scenes with Mahomes and Cousins, might there be a thirst for a similar window into women’s basketball?
