Romantic Comedy for the Penguins, Thanks to Dennis Miller's Brother - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog

When the bar is set at Jean-Claude Van Damme's "Sudden Death" and "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh," the chances that "She's out of My League" will become the best movie to feature the Pittsburgh Penguins and/or their arena are pretty darn good. This Dreamworks SKG comedy starring Jay Baruchel ("Knocked Up" and "Tropic Thunder," a.k.a. this summer's hopefully-hilarious "Three Amigos"-esque war movie with Robert Downey, Jr. in black-face) is scheduled to shoot at Mellon Arena this week.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports a few interesting facts about the film's executive producer, Jimmy Miller, whose credits include several movies with the man pictured to his right such as "Elf," "Talladega Nights," and "Semi-Pro." Like the fact that he used to be an usher in section D25 at the arena, and still has season tickets for Penguins and Pirates; and the fact that his older, slightly more famous brother is the one who got him into hockey:

He was introduced to hockey through his older brother Dennis, the acid-tongued comic and former announcer on "Monday Night Football" who now has a radio show and a game show on TV. "Dennis took me to my first game, and I got bitten by the hockey bug," Miller said. "It's my favorite sport to see live."

The original script for "She's out of My League" had its hockey scene happening in Phoenix. But it seemed natural to tweak it and move it to Pittsburgh, where both the Penguins and city officials were quite receptive to movie-making at the arena.

The film is described as "the story of an average Joe who meets a girl described as a perfect 10, both of whom are hockey fans," and she takes an unlikely interest in him. (How Apatow-riffic.) I was really unaware of Dennis Miller's puckhead past. Sort of makes me wish his show on Versus had stuck around for a while. Sort of...