Anybody else watch this? Guy was phenomenal before he got hurt. Sad story...really gotta wonder how good he could have been if he hadn't been corrupted and blew out his knee.
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NFBuck;1808208; said:
I actually sort of remember the hype at the time, though it was when I was just getting into football really. It was a sad story, but I also wonder if he had gone to Texas or Southern Miss instead of falling for the Sims swooning and ending up with that peckernozzle Barry Switzer, his career might not have turned out a whole hell of a lot better. As it was, he rushed for like 1200 yards in only 7 or 8 games as a freshman and might have been the first sophomore Heisman winner way back then had he not blown out his knee.
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BTW these things have generally been good...I recently saw the one about the Canadian runner with one leg after cancer, and the one about Marion Jones...supposedly there is one about Bartman, but they haven't aired it yet.
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OHSportsFan
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I agree, they've been generally good. First 4 or 5 were remarkable, then they kind of lulled off. Haven't really caught the last few though they are DVR'd. I thought they'd air them for 30 straight weeks and then they took a couple months off and I lost interest when they came back.
I'm interested in the Bartman one as well, but the current 30 for 30 site doesn't have it listed. They have 30 films and "Catching Hell" isn't there anymore (???). I've read an article that it was pushed back to sometime in 2011, but how ESPN has 30 films listed without this one makes me wonder what happened.
31 for 30? Or people thought better than to bring it up again?
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OHSportsFan9;1808248; said:
wikipedia lists it as an "Additional Episode"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_for_30#Additional_Episodes
with the last "30 for 30" being about the SMU death penalty to air on December 11th
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OHSportsFan9;1808248; said:
Funny you guys asked about the Bartman film. This morning I just listened to the 30 for 30 podcast with Bill Simmons and the director for the Dupree film. At the end of the podcast Simmons talked about the future of 30 for 30.
Basically the Bartman film got pushed back because the director wanted to tweak it more. Get more interviews and such. Seemed like he was thinking it would be released in the spring.
And also they plan on doing more films, and the Bartman one will be the first under a new heading, to allow them to keep doing a few documentaries a year or so like this.
Also the DVDs of the first 15 documentaries are being released in a box set in December (just in time for Xmas)
And yes, the last one is the SMU death penalty. Scheduled to be aired right after the Heisman ceremony (irony is dripping if Cam Netwon wins)
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What a story. watched it last night with my 10 year old son and we both liked it. Especially liked seeing how emotional Marcus got when they discussed his little brother. I also thought it was very interesting how the "advisor/reverend" guy talked in his interviews and how he actually came off through the whole piece. Shady!
There were also a couple Ohio State references so that was cool too.
There were also a couple Ohio State references so that was cool too.
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y0yoyoin;1808327; said:
The one on The U was awful. It portrayed Miami as being the school that "discovered" black athletes and contrasted them against "white" schools like Nebraska (nevermind Johnny Rodgers won a Heisman Trophy and two national championships at Nebraska long before Miami ever thought of football or black people.)
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NFBuck;1808208; said:
I remember being concerned about him when the Buckeyes went to Norman my freshman year at OSU. He only had about 30 yards before leaving with a knee injury as the Bucks knocked them off, 24-14.
He was a beast before the injuries, and some bad advice, killed a once promising career.
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BigWoof31;1808352; said:
I get that. I wasn't expecting them to talk about bounties or pell grants or anything - I just think the mythologizing of Schnellenberger's recruiting strategies and embrace of black athletes as it was portrayed against other top college football programs was heavy-handed. What happened at Miami in the late '70s wasn't exactly Texas Western vs. Adolph Rupp's Kentucky.
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