Before "How I Met Your Mother" aired, Scott Foley was known for playing nice guys – particularly as Noel Crane on "Felicity." So it makes sense that the show's creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas would want him to play Ted Mosby (via ScreenRant).vHowever, Foley passed on the role – but he's not the only one. Ted Mosby was also offered to Jason Biggs (via E! News).

"I was offered the role and it's probably my biggest regret, you know, on passing," Biggs said in an interview on SiriusXM. "I think I was in a phase of, at the time—it sounds so obnoxious to say right now — but at the time it was like, 'Okay, do I want to do TV?' I don't know that I was quite ready to go that route."

Ultimately, the part was Radnor's, although it seemingly took him a little while to really believe it, as the show was his big break. "It took me so long to get up the courage to buy anything," Radnor told CNBC Make It. "I was the last one in the 'How I Met Your Mother' cast to buy a house."

As for Foley, it doesn't seem like there's bad blood between him and Bays/Thomas. They would later cast him in their show "The Goodwin Games." And while that show was canceled, Foley would soon co-star on "Scandal." And that folks, is how Jake Ballard met Olivia Pope.