Check out Austin hook'em horns on the red carpet and oh yeah... Big Blue up close
Glory Road had it's premieres (It's Bruck, he loves to have move than one) in January 2006, and Austin was working on Deadwood.
By the end of April he had a three year holding deal with HBO and Deadwood was cancelled before the last season aired in June that year, and Milch was already working on creating JFC.
And of course we know that Milch already had Austin in mind for John.
Deadwood
JFCAustin talked about it on his interview with Jimmy Kimmel (which is sadly gone from YouTube)
