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re: Is the 30 for 30 series going to grow tiresome?
Posted on 5/20/16 at 7:20 am to Feral
Posted on 5/20/16 at 7:20 am to Feral
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Also, it's amazing to me that despite ESPN's rich history with the sport, their college football-focused 30 for 30 docs have been almost comprehensively weak. Roll Tide/War Eagle, Pony Excess, Ghosts of Ole Miss, Trojan War, Brian and the Boz, and both U's were all either terribly done or extremely myopic.
The U acted as if Miami happened in a vacuum while completely ignoring the simultaneous (and similar) rises of FSU and Florida in the late 80s and early 90s.
Trojan War painted USC to be this unbeatable dynasty when they in fact won 1 National Championship and played in a horror show of a conference.
Brian and the Boz was such a transparent reclamation project, and everything from Bosworth's acting and fake crying to the scenes in the storage shed was absurd. It was like a bad movie on cable.
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I will forever maintain that Roll Tide/War Eagle is the worst sports documentary I've ever seen, and I'm an Arkansas fan and thus have no dog in the proverbial Iron Bowl fight. Wright Thompson took a century-old blood rivalry with legendary coaches, players and games and dumbed it down to Finebaum, Updyke and Cam Newton.
Couldn't agree more. I was interested in watching the history of that series and was extremely disappointed in what they showed.
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Posted on 5/20/16 at 8:05 am to etm512
when 30/30 started it was based around "off the beaten path" sports stories
now i completely understand that as they do more, there will be fewer stories to tell
and i also understand that it takes time for some stories to become ripe (like the duke lacrosse one) and it's not "off the beaten path" but since it's just now able to be told, they get the first bite of the apple
but straw/gooden? that story has been told 100x
the magic one was solid, but not close to being great or anything
the one about cleveland is borderline, but i personally have no interest in watching. same with FIVE docs about OJ
the 1985 bears episode is probably the shark-jumping moment
now i completely understand that as they do more, there will be fewer stories to tell
and i also understand that it takes time for some stories to become ripe (like the duke lacrosse one) and it's not "off the beaten path" but since it's just now able to be told, they get the first bite of the apple
but straw/gooden? that story has been told 100x
the magic one was solid, but not close to being great or anything
the one about cleveland is borderline, but i personally have no interest in watching. same with FIVE docs about OJ
the 1985 bears episode is probably the shark-jumping moment
Posted on 5/20/16 at 8:51 am to etm512
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I will forever maintain that Roll Tide/War Eagle is the worst sports documentary I've ever seen, and I'm an Arkansas fan and thus have no dog in the proverbial Iron Bowl fight. Wright Thompson took a century-old blood rivalry with legendary coaches, players and games and dumbed it down to Finebaum, Updyke and Cam Newton.
Couldn't agree more. I was interested in watching the history of that series and was extremely disappointed in what they showed.
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