Roller Warriors TV series premieres tonight
Thu., Jan. 15 2009 @ 1:38PM
I'm really looking forward to Metro Sports' documentary series on the tough skating and fighting chicks in the Kansas City Roller Warriors. The series debuts tonight at 9, replays at 9:30 and airs Thursday nights at 9:30 for seven weeks. Roller Warriors recalls the 2008 season (the 2009 gets rolling next weekend). Last month, I talked with Charlie Parker, the producer of the series, who told me he went into the project knowing nothing about roller derby or the women who skate and bleed.
"I went into it thinking that they're going to be like these tattooed hipsters who are smoking cigarettes and cussing each other out and getting into fights and stuff," Parker told me. "But really what I found is 80 women who are the nicest people on the planet. ... They all adore each other, but when they get on the track that all sort of goes away, and they just try to win. And that's ultimately why they're doing it."
Parker says the first episode will feature "Snot Rocket" (pictured) and "Ivana Clobber."
Parker says Clobber came to KC from Boston, where she started a derby league, and he calls Snot Rocket, a grad assistant Spanish teacher at UMKC and FedEx driver, "the star of the league."
But Roller Warriors will also recap the genesis of roller derby in Kansas City and feature matches.
"Each episode is going to climax with one of the games from each of the double-headers," Parker said.
Here's a preview of Roller Warriors ...
featuring the beauties known as the Knockouts ...
the dominant Dreadnought Dorothys ...
the rebuilding Victory Vixens ...
new girls on the flat track Black-Eye Susans ...
and a profile of the hard-hitting Patti Wackin.
I can't wait. -- Justin Kendall
and a profile of the hard-hitting Patti Wackin.
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