Story Ideas I Can't Use

[frustratedpilot]

1) "Pit Boys". A high school football team (from a school in a poor neighborhood where few graduates ever get to higher education) loses their try at the playoffs. On the way back home, their bus comes upon an RV broken down on the side of the road, so the boys decide to help the RV out. When they get the RV back running, they find out that the RV is owned by a friend of an up-and-coming race car driver. The driver shows up at the school and tells the Senior boys "keep your grades up, graduate--and then spend a season as my pit crew. Do that and I'll pay for college or tech school!" And so the rest is them learning their jobs on the box, dealing with life on the circuit and the hassles from rival teams, and the heartbreak of mistakes and changes in fortune. But the Pit Boys eventually become hometown heroes--and the driver rewards their faith and effort more ways than one.

2) "Regularly Scheduled Programming". It's a small TV station in a small market. So small that the station doesn't have a news department and 99% of the programming is syndicated or infomercials. The central characters are the techies who keep the station operating 24/7.