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1 hour ago, DrDawkinstein said:

"Broke" is a great one.

"Requiem for the Big East"

"Once Brothers"

"Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL" (Trigger warning for all our Trump worshipers though. Spoiler Alert: It was another bad Trump business deal that killed it)

"The U"

"Pony Excess"

"Catching Hell"

 

 

Those are probably my favorites. But they really are ALL good.

 

1 hour ago, KD in CA said:


Good call on USFL (Trump totally killed it) and Catching Hell, which was a jarring look into the mind of an angry mob.  Pretty frightening actually.

I'm not putting the demise of the USFL all on Trump, there were other things that were done by that league that did them in.

 

Does "O.J.: Made in America" count as a 30 for 30? Because if it does, that is an excellent one.

 

I also enjoyed "Small Potatoes", "Catholics Vs. Convicts", "Nature Boy", The Baltimore Colts Marching Band, and the one about Jimmy the Greek.

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36 minutes ago, Mark Vader said:

 

I'm not putting the demise of the USFL all on Trump, there were other things that were done by that league that did them in.

 

Does "O.J.: Made in America" count as a 30 for 30? Because if it does, that is an excellent one.

 

I also enjoyed "Small Potatoes", "Catholics Vs. Convicts", "Nature Boy", The Baltimore Colts Marching Band, and the one about Jimmy the Greek.

 

Watch the USFL doc. It's clear what happened. Donnie bought his way in figuring it would be his way into an NFL franchise. He did his usual MO: tank the company and then sue someone else. They settled for $1 and the damage to the USFL was already done. He's interviewed in the doc and walks off in a huff. But I digress...

 

OJ: Made in America is part of the 30 for 30 series, but I prefer the doc titled "June 17th, 1994" which chronicles all the amazing things that happened in sports on one crazy day and also the White Bronco chase.

   
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3 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:

After living through it as an impressionable adolescent, I cant bring myself to watch The Four Falls of Buffalo and probably never will. I dont need to re-live that.

 

I'm sure it's good. But I just can't.

 

You almost have to, man.  It's a part of us.

 

The next time the Bills reach the Super Bowl I'm going to watch it the day before.

 

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52 minutes ago, Mark Vader said:

 

I'm not putting the demise of the USFL all on Trump, there were other things that were done by that league that did them in.

 

Does "O.J.: Made in America" count as a 30 for 30? Because if it does, that is an excellent one.

 

I also enjoyed "Small Potatoes", "Catholics Vs. Convicts", "Nature Boy", The Baltimore Colts Marching Band, and the one about Jimmy the Greek.

 

I believe it does....which given the breadth of the subject matter probably makes it the best one of all.

 

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3 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:

After living through it as an impressionable adolescent, I cant bring myself to watch The Four Falls of Buffalo and probably never will. I dont need to re-live that.

 

I'm sure it's good. But I just can't.


I am the same. Everyone says it’s great; I can’t get myself to watch it.

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1 hour ago, Royale with Cheese said:

 

I honestly think she was a crack baby or something.  I felt bad for her because I think the Lawyer really screwed with her mind.

 

You're a better person than me.  

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21 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

Watch the USFL doc. It's clear what happened. Donnie bought his way in figuring it would be his way into an NFL franchise. He did his usual MO: tank the company and then sue someone else. They settled for $1 and the damage to the USFL was already done. He's interviewed in the doc and walks off in a huff. But I digress...

 

OJ: Made in America is part of the 30 for 30 series, but I prefer the doc titled "June 17th, 1994" which chronicles all the amazing things that happened in sports on one crazy day and also the White Bronco chase.

   

I saw the USFL documentary, as I said there were other circumstances that doomed that league. Expanding to other cities in it second season was a dumb move, some of the original teams had to move to other cities in order to stay viable.

Putting all of the blame on Trump(and he does deserve blame) for the league folding is too easy of a cop out. There were other things that were wrong with that league.

 

"June 17th, 1994", was fascinating. I love how that particular documentary has no narrative. It just shows you all of the events as reported.

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9 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

 

Oh I think she's a bad person too...she created this mess.  I just think the Lawyer played on it and took it too far and used her as a puppet.

 

That statement was what made at what appeared to be a press conference made me hate her.  You can't just want justice for something that didn't happen and was proven not to have happened!  

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"The Best That Never Was"

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"Nature Boy"

 

I like all of them but some are better than others. These two are my favorite.  The story of Marcus Dupree is something I wasn't very familiar with and I thought it was really well done.  "Nature Boy" was great too and Ric Flair was the man when I was a kid. 

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7 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

 

OJ: Made in America is part of the 30 for 30 series, but I prefer the doc titled "June 17th, 1994" which chronicles all the amazing things that happened in sports on one crazy day and also the White Bronco chase.

   

I thought that one was very good. Amazing everything in sports that happened that day.

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