For some reason, the character stuck around in Sudeikis' head, and over a decade later, he built a pitch around the same narrative.
Lasso was still in England and still trying to make his way around the soccer field, but he was not the same Lasso, even with the same comic bushy mustache.
When Lasso appeared on Apple's streaming service, he was no longer the loud, obnoxious buffoon but more of a regular guy navigating through his life post-divorce in a new country. As GQ put it aptly,
Ted Lasso was still funny, but now in an earned kind of way, where the jokes he told and the jokes made at his expense spoke to the quality of the man.
