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Post by Display Name on Sept 16, 2014 3:44:16 GMT -5
Ya know,how did that happen?For a bit it sounded like we were gonna be getting them down here. Here's a very brief timeline of the events of the past few years, but it doesn't explain the struggle very well. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failed_relocation_of_the_Sacramento_KingsFor 3 years of my life I attended damn near every city council meeting in support of keeping the Kings. If the community didn't rally together and if we didn't have Mayor Kevin Johnson this team would have been long gone. I know someone that's working on a documentary about it, but man it's hard to put into words what the fight was like to keep the team here. Hell even after keeping the team it wasn't a slam dunk that the proposed arena would get built. Chris Hansen the guy who failed at bringing the Kings to Seattle funded the arena opposition in Sacramento. His goal was to delay the arena from being built by 2016 so the NBA could take ownership of the Kings and move them. Thankfully we were able to get passed a referendum scare that could have destroyed our arena plan. Demolition of the arena site is already underway and we are ahead of schedule for opening up our new home in October of 2016. First off,congrats and thanks for the link.I read "Mayor Kevin Johnson" and had to google if it was THAT Kevin Johnson..mind blown,legit had no idea.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Sept 16, 2014 5:33:08 GMT -5
What about a 30 for 30 on Kings vs Lakers 2002 Western Conference Finals? How about one on the illustrious history of the Sacramento Kings and how great the franchise is? Hey, I just want one about quite possibly the greatest NBA playoff series ever. You could do a lot about great playoff series/big games. There could be one about the 1991 World Series, Texas vs USC Rose Bowl and the hype around USC, Boise State's amazing undefeated season that ended with a win over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl, or about the 2014 Sugar Bowl and how Oklahoma beat down Bama. Some other ones that wouldn't be bad to see - Bill Walsh and how he changed the game and built an NFL dynasty. - The 1999 NFL Draft and how the next great QB class just failed in the NFL with the exception of McNabb and Culpepper. - Ki Jana Carter and how his career was over before it got started thanks to injury. - The absolutely horrible 2000 NBA Draft
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Post by karl100589 on Sept 16, 2014 10:24:56 GMT -5
I'd quite like to see one about the IRL split in detail. A sport in its prime ripped apart by a combination of politics, ideology and, for all extensive purposes, petulance from those in power.
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Sept 16, 2014 12:37:58 GMT -5
I'd like to see a 30 for 30(or a 30 for 30 short if there's not enough for a stand alone documentary) on the 1992 World Series and the whole upside down Canadian flag fiasco.
I would also like to see a 30 for 30 or a 30 for 30 short on the New England Patriots from right before Robert Kraft bought them to the construction of Gillete Stadium. Just because in that time period you had then-team owner James Orthwein planning to move the team to his hometown of St. Louis before Kraft bought the team. Then after Kraft bought the team there was major overtures by Connecticut's governor Lowell Weicker and Providence, Rhode Island's mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci to attract the Patriots to move to their locales with promises of fancy new stadiums and ill received plans by Massachusetts' leaders to keep the team in state. All this before Kraft decided to privately fund what would become Gillete Stadium on top of the old Foxboro Stadium.
Something on the CFL's attempt at American expansion (that is touched upon briefly with the Baltimore Stallions in the doc "The Colts Leave Town") could also be interesting.
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Post by burdette25159 on Sept 16, 2014 14:51:32 GMT -5
I'd like to see a 30 for 30(or a 30 for 30 short if there's not enough for a stand alone documentary) on the 1992 World Series and the whole upside down Canadian flag fiasco. I would also like to see a 30 for 30 or a 30 for 30 short on the New England Patriots from right before Robert Kraft bought them to the construction of Gillete Stadium. Just because in that time period you had then-team owner James Orthwein planning to move the team to his hometown of St. Louis before Kraft bought the team. Then after Kraft bought the team there was major overtures by Connecticut's governor Lowell Weicker and Providence, Rhode Island's mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci to attract the Patriots to move to their locales with promises of fancy new stadiums and ill received plans by Massachusetts' leaders to keep the team in state. All this before Kraft decided to privately fund what would become Gillete Stadium on top of the old Foxboro Stadium. Something on the CFL's attempt at American expansion (that is touched upon briefly with the Baltimore Stallions in the doc "The Colts Leave Town") could also be interesting. I'd like to see the '92 World Series, Pre-Kraft Patriots with how Billy and his son Chuck Sullivan's part in the Jackson's Victory Tour forced them to sell the Patriots, and CFLUSA 30 for 30s too. I'd also like to see a 30 for 30 about the dark days of baseball stadium building (1965 to before the opening of Oriole Park at Camden Yards)
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Post by triplethreatmark on Sept 16, 2014 15:00:59 GMT -5
I'd quite like to see one about the IRL split in detail. A sport in its prime ripped apart by a combination of politics, ideology and, for all extensive purposes, petulance from those in power. That documentary would be awesome for the nostalgia but absolutely depressing and infuriating otherwise. Anyways, another hockey 30 for 30 that would be awesome would be about the 1996 World Cup of Hockey and how Team USA upset Canada in the finals in Montreal in the last minutes of Game #3. That whole tournament was awesome, but it was even more awesome to see the next generation of USA hockey after 1980 validate itself with an incredible victory in a major international tournament.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2014 15:38:09 GMT -5
I would love to see a piece on the Mets from 2006 to the present. The Wilpons would NEVER agree to do an interview though.
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Post by andrew8798 on Oct 7, 2014 19:39:55 GMT -5
Tonight's Episode
Playing for the Mob
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Post by andrew8798 on Oct 7, 2014 19:41:06 GMT -5
And a new short is out today
The Great Trade Robbery
A retrospective of the Dallas Cowboys' 1989 trade of Herschel Walker to the Minnesota Vikings, which laid the foundations for the Cowboys' success in the 1990s, as told by then-Cowboys head coach Jimmy Johnson
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2014 19:47:20 GMT -5
I think that somewhere down the line we'll see a great episode about RG3 and Russell Wilson or RG3 and Strasberg considering that the Nats sat Strasberg down despite making a playoff run and the Redskins stuck RG3 back in there to wreck his knee some more on a shit field in 2012.
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Post by Lupin the Third on Oct 7, 2014 20:51:34 GMT -5
One I would like to see:
The Rise and Fall of the Arena Football League: What nearly killed the AFL?
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Post by unc40 on Oct 7, 2014 20:56:35 GMT -5
The Randy Moss one should be fascinating. The U Part II is gonna pick up from the early 90s and stretch into the mid 2000s right? I bet those Miami players are still pissed about that pass interference call against Ohio State... I loved "The U" but I am not sure what else they could do with it. The U really ended about the mid 90's and other for a couple of years early this century hasn't been the program they once was.
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Post by BRV on Oct 7, 2014 21:13:43 GMT -5
A story that I think would make for a fascinating 30 for 30 would be the rise and fall of the 1997 Florida Marlins, climbing the ranks to become out-of-nowhere champions only to be dismantled within a year.
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Post by fw91 on Oct 7, 2014 21:17:52 GMT -5
I would love to see a piece on the Mets from 2006 to the present. The Wilpons would NEVER agree to do an interview though. No but Minaya, Randolph, Manuel, seem plausible. Maybe media guys like Howie Rose, Gary Cohen Ed Coleman as well
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Post by BRV on Oct 14, 2014 18:35:23 GMT -5
"The Day the Series Stopped", which chronicles the 1989 World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake that preempted Game 3 and interrupted the series, premieres at 10 on ESPN tonight.
As much as I'm looking forward to this, I'm somewhat disappointed that it's only one hour. I was hoping this would be one of the 90-minute or two-hour 30 for 30s, because I feel like there's just so much to tell about this story.
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Post by andrew8798 on Oct 21, 2014 19:26:39 GMT -5
Tonight's episode
When The Garden Was Eden
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Post by andrew8798 on Oct 21, 2014 19:33:59 GMT -5
The Great Trade Robbery should had been a full 60 minute episode instead of a 12 minute short
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Post by andrew8798 on Oct 28, 2014 19:29:58 GMT -5
Tonight's episode
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Post by andrew8798 on Oct 28, 2014 20:03:09 GMT -5
JR on the episode tonight
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Post by Waffel113 on Oct 28, 2014 20:04:09 GMT -5
Been looking forward to this one since it was announced.
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