EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television is adapting NFL vet R.K. Russell’s memoir The Yards Between Us into a half-hour comedy series from Russell, Saeed Crumpler (Flatbush Misdemeanors) and Gabrielle Union (Truth Be Told).
The Yards Between Us follows a professional football player – famous for becoming the first out active player in the league to identify publicly as bisexual.
The show explores the intersectionality of sports, race, sexuality, and masculinity. In addition to his career in the NFL, Russell is also a published poet, essayist, and artist.
In 2019, the multihyphenate became the first out active NFL player to identify as bisexual in a deeply personal essay for ESPN.
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