Premise
The series centered around Porter Waide (Ragsdale), a milquetoast college English professor and widowed single father, raising his 8-year-old son Oscar (Cooper) by himself until his brother Bobby (O'Bryan), a football placekicker who had just been signed to play with the San Francisco 49ers and has a reputation for being a bad boy, moves in with his brother and nephew, as part of a stipulation in his new multi-million dollar contract in which Bobby has to live with someone who is more responsible than him, in order to change his troublemaking ways.
This situation proves incredibly challenging as Bobby continues to exhibit childish behavior in his adult years, which often aggravates Porter, as well as Bobby's smart, sarcastic and harried sports agent Dena Draeger (Bess Meyer), who has the unenviable task of "babysitting" Bobby to ensure he stays out of trouble and keep him from violating the terms of his new NFL contract. Although Porter is reluctant to let Bobby stay with him and his son, he realizes that Oscar is thrilled with the fact that he now gets spend time with his famous uncle, with Bobby becoming an unlikely second parent to his nephew and making attempts to try and get his brother to have fun and loosen up, while Porter tries teaching Bobby how to be a responsible person.
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