Way, way late, I know, and a show about American football, so prolly not up your alley, either. However:
Jason Street uses a wheelchair as the outcome of a first-episode football injury. (He's spent all but ten minutes of the series using a chair, but if you google "Jason Street" almost all the shots are of him pre-injury!) During 1x19 Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, he reclaims football for himself via coaching his replacement. (Some ableist language about bipolar in the first half of that clip. The bit about Street reclaiming football via coaching is right near the end.) I'd love to see one of Street coaching Smash (the black player in that clip) to be a quarterback -- not many black players become quarterback, and that came up in one of Smash's plotlines. A player getting ready to pass is the iconic I'm-a-quarterback pose -- in this case, though, without the helmet and pads.
(Actually, what I'd really rather is simply Jason goofing around with a football and the others, playing catch, but the character has limited hand dexterity: he can catch a football, but he can't get the proper grip on a football to throw it anymore. That hasn't been a plot point yet (I'm only just finishing the first season), but it doesn't seem respectful of the character -- or people who have that injury -- to overlook that for a sake of a fun bit of art.)
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Friday Night Lights
Jason Street uses a wheelchair as the outcome of a first-episode football injury. (He's spent all but ten minutes of the series using a chair, but if you google "Jason Street" almost all the shots are of him pre-injury!) During 1x19 Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, he reclaims football for himself via coaching his replacement. (Some ableist language about bipolar in the first half of that clip. The bit about Street reclaiming football via coaching is right near the end.) I'd love to see one of Street coaching Smash (the black player in that clip) to be a quarterback -- not many black players become quarterback, and that came up in one of Smash's plotlines. A player getting ready to pass is the iconic I'm-a-quarterback pose -- in this case, though, without the helmet and pads.
(Actually, what I'd really rather is simply Jason goofing around with a football and the others, playing catch, but the character has limited hand dexterity: he can catch a football, but he can't get the proper grip on a football to throw it anymore. That hasn't been a plot point yet (I'm only just finishing the first season), but it doesn't seem respectful of the character -- or people who have that injury -- to overlook that for a sake of a fun bit of art.)