re: The boz 30 for 30

I remember how great it was when you figured out exactly the starting points for all the songs on your favorite cassette and could rewind /fast forward to that exact spot

2 swatch watches and a coke rugby shirt

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Nobody really talks about Nebraska and Oklahoma no longer playing

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I was surprised that didn't get more coverage when Nebraska left the Big 12. That used to be an enormous game when Switzer and Osborne were on opposite sidelines.

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I was expecting more. I guess there just wasnt much to tell.
His dad pushed him hard, became a good college player, ego got out of control, ran wild, flopped in the NFL. Now regrets it all. Basically nothing we didnt already know.

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Yeah, when this one was announced I remember wondering what they could possibly do with this story they haven't already done a few times. The Marinovich Project already did the "dad pushed too hard and son flamed out" angle, and OU/Switzer were already featured on the Marcus Dupree doc. Plus, they already touched on the wild west days of 1980s college football in The U.

This one honestly should have been one of the 30 For 30 shorts.

In his book, Bosworth ripped Cassias pretty bad, and it's been documented that that book was almost pure fiction. Plus, with him getting suspended for using steroids, Bosworth hurt his teammates by not being eligble for the huge bowl game. Cassias has every right in the world to be pissed at him. The Boz was a prick as a person & a jerk as a teammate. Picture the Boz on today's social media.

the storage scenes with he and his son almost ruined this one

the fake finding stuff..."O i haven't seen this in years, this shirt ruined my life." followed by fake crying. Just total shite and wasn't needed.

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the fake finding stuff..."O i haven't seen this in years, this shirt ruined my life." followed by fake crying. Just total shite and wasn't needed.

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That whole storage angle was ridiculous. And surely that wasn't the actual shirt.

I went back and rewatched it, and it struck me as a pretty terrible 30 For 30 in general. For starters, it came off as one big transparent attempt by him to re-market himself (which is what Tony Casillas claims) and get himself back in the public eye. It just felt like one big PR plug for Brian Bosworth, and he seemed, for the most part, to blame everyone but himself. Daddy didn't love him enough, the agent took advantage of him, he was "being pulled in different directions," all that crap just seemed like a shirking of responsibility by him and fabricated excuses. Plus, he kept talking about how he was actually a great teammate, wasn't really on steroids, and kept boasting about being a good student and never getting arrested.

Plus, the guy has made a living from acting for a quarter century, so it's not like it's out of the question that the whole thing was contrived. When he was doing things like looking at his old stat sheets and mementos his dad kept and was saying things like "Dad, why couldn't you just watch the games" and "it was never enough for you," I literally muttered to myself "oh for the love of God." All the boo-hooing seemed forced and felt like one big act. Like Tony Casillas said on his radio show, the whole thing just reeks of being a shallow attempt at a self-made redemption story.

I'm really hoping this angle of players and coaches making puff pieces about themselves to bolster their legacies or tell their own story isn't the direction the 30 For 30 series is headed in, because that's pretty much what happened with the pieces about Maurice Clarett and Jim Tressel, Tonya Harding, and even the U.

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That whole storage angle was ridiculous. And surely that wasn't the actual shirt.

I went back and rewatched it, and it struck me as a pretty terrible 30 For 30 in general. For starters, it came off as one big transparent attempt by him to re-market himself (which is what Tony Casillas claims) and get himself back in the public eye. It just felt like one big PR plug for Brian Bosworth, and he seemed, for the most part, to blame everyone but himself. Daddy didn't love him enough, the agent took advantage of him, he was "being pulled in different directions," all that crap just seemed like a shirking of responsibility by him and fabricated excuses. Plus, he kept talking about how he was actually a great teammate, wasn't really on steroids, and kept boasting about being a good student and never getting arrested.

Plus, the guy has made a living from acting for a quarter century, so it's not like it's out of the question that the whole thing was contrived. When he was doing things like looking at his old stat sheets and mementos his dad kept and was saying things like "Dad, why couldn't you just watch the games" and "it was never enough for you," I literally muttered to myself "oh for the love of God." All the boo-hooing seemed forced and felt like one big act. Like Tony Casillas said on his radio show, the whole thing just reeks of being a shallow attempt at a self-made redemption story.

I'm really hoping this angle of players and coaches making puff pieces about themselves to bolster their legacies or tell their own story isn't the direction the 30 For 30 series is headed in, because that's pretty much what happened with the pieces about Maurice Clarett and Jim Tressel, Tonya Harding, and even the U.

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All of this. That fake crying was ridiculous. His son was even laughing during that shite. They could have done way better with that 30 for 30 because the Boz story is compelling as frick. But like you said it was a shallow attempt to re-brand.