Ted Lasso is a comedy television series which follows Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) as an American coach from Kansas City who gets hired to manage AFC Richmond after he led the Wichita State Shockers to a Division II National Collegiate Athletic Association championship. The main establishing plot for the show is that Ted Lasso doesnβt even know an iota about football/soccer. The show eventually explores the characters along with their backstories and developments throughout the 1st season.
The idea behind the show originated from a sketch that Jason Sudeikis performed for NBC in 2013. NBC sports was promoting their coverage of Premier League in USA and Jason Sudeikis played the character as the new head coach for Tottenham Hotspur FC in a series of advertisements.