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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2015 13:27:15 GMT -5
I just saw "Of Miracles And Men" about Soviet National Hockey Team and their perspective of the 1980 Miracle on Ice and it's fascinating as hell. It was great and I recommend everyone watch it!
I also made this thread because I like watching sport documentaries.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2015 13:29:57 GMT -5
The Best That Never Was
The Two Escobars
Once Brothers
Those are probably my three favorites.
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Post by ICBM on Mar 7, 2015 13:58:20 GMT -5
The U Of Miricles and men You don't know Bo
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Mar 7, 2015 14:39:43 GMT -5
Pony Excess was my favorite.
Elway to Marino was good as well, and you get a fantastic look at possibly the greatest NFL Draft class ever.
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Post by marvelocity on Mar 7, 2015 15:27:18 GMT -5
I thought Broke was great, gives you a new perspective on athletes that end up losing all of their money. Requiem for the Big East was excellently done. And while everyone knows the Harding/Kerrigan story, that one was still compelling.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Mar 7, 2015 15:27:52 GMT -5
Broke, Pony Excess, June 17 1994, The Price of Gold, Winning Time, The U and The U Part 2, The Real Rocky and Big Shot are probably my favorites.
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Post by karl100589 on Mar 7, 2015 15:59:13 GMT -5
If it counts then I will say Hillsbrough. It is honestly some of the most haunting television I have seen. I always grew up knowing about it but not truly understanding the severity of the incident, seeing the action on screen though was shocking to view.
If it doesn't count then I'll say The Price of Gold
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Post by Perd on Mar 7, 2015 16:08:27 GMT -5
Pony Excess is my favorite. I haven't watche Of Miracles and Men, yet. I'm sure it's great.
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Post by andrew8798 on Mar 7, 2015 21:50:34 GMT -5
The U I and II
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Mar 7, 2015 21:59:54 GMT -5
If it counts then I will say Hillsbrough. It is honestly some of the most haunting television I have seen. I always grew up knowing about it but not truly understanding the severity of the incident, seeing the action on screen though was shocking to view. I really want to see Hillsborough but even though it was co-produced by the BBC, they still can't show that in the UK as the inquest is still ongoing at the High Court.
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Post by andrew8798 on Mar 7, 2015 22:04:41 GMT -5
Didn't know that
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2015 22:26:19 GMT -5
The U June 17 1994 Survive and Advance You Don't Know Bo
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Mar 7, 2015 22:57:33 GMT -5
Broke, Pony Excess, Small Potatoes: Who Killed The USFL?, The Band That Wouldn't Die, Unguarded, The Marinovich Project, Roll Tide/War Eagle, 9.79* (has my two favorite cringe worthy moments, that elementary school class in unison saying "no" when their teacher asks if Ben Johnson is still their hero, and Carl Lewis' music video from his attempt at a pop music career), No Más, The Dotted Line, Catching Hell, The Announcement, Triumph and Tragedy: The Ray Mancini Story.
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Post by sfvega on Mar 8, 2015 0:19:50 GMT -5
There have been a LOT of good ones. This series is one of the only good things about ESPN anymore (along with Olbermann's monologues, and Highly Questionable's transparency).
I will say that I love the Canes, and I looked forward to both of their 30 for 30s immensely. But the finished product isn't up there with a lot of the ones they've done. The subject matter is only ok, the story is kinda typical, and it just wasn't all that entertaining. Maybe because I'd heard about it all before, but I'm really surprised that people mention it in this topic.
The Best That Never Was is their magnum opus. I really don't care how many of these they do (and I love that they keep doing them), but it's going to be incredibly hard to top that one. The story of this high school kid that SO many say that is up there with Hershel Walker and Bo Jackson. A rare talent, but an even rarer specimen. And he was the #1 HS recruit, and he did have a little of success at OU. And then it all derailed by seedy people around him with their hands out. Ending in a very short pro career, but then to work his way to the NFL off the streets. And end in a very modest trucking career. And then to see him at the end when they show him all that footage they found and he's mesmerized by it. That story didn't have the hookers and fights that the U did, but as a human interest piece it had EVERYTHING. It took something that almost nobody remembers, and a story WORTH being told, and they told it flawlessly. That was the original hook that made people want to watch more of these.
The Hernandez brothers one was really well done, too. It went very in-depth about defecting and how long it takes for them to actually muster up the nerve to do it. And how badly things can go if you don't do it right. El Duque could have died on an island trying to make it and Livan is living it up in South Beach at the same time.
I did like the Bartman one, too. I think it's funny how they played it on ESPN though, as it's general message was for people to not overreact about sports, and that's all that ESPN wants to do anymore and the audience feeds off of it. But in the internet age, for a guy to fall completely off the map. It's pretty cool.
Big Shot was a crazy story that I'd never heard even a whisper of, and it hooks you. It's really interesting, but probably not one of the best ones they ever did.
There's more. It's really been a great run for the series.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2015 1:23:51 GMT -5
Elway to Marino was good as well, and you get a fantastic look at possibly the greatest NFL Draft class ever. I hate this ep just because it forces me to relive the Jets not taking Marino
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Post by StormanReigns on Mar 8, 2015 3:09:18 GMT -5
The Soviet one was amazing. Really humanizes people who everyone thought were villains. I think everyone through the 50s-80's forgot that the Soviet Union was comprised of people who did not necessarily like the regime they were in.
Worst one was the Gretzky one. It should have been about his time in LA, and how he made hockey popular, not about his final days in Edmonton. TSN (Canada's ESPN) did a similar documentary and it did terribly ratings wise too.
Basing a documentary on such a small city is just bound to fail ratings wise. The documentary was great for Oilers fans, but on one else
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Post by Father Dougal McGuire on Mar 8, 2015 4:24:56 GMT -5
I second June 17, 1994. For me, that is one of those days that I can remember where I was and what I was doing when the chase happened. Long story short, back then I would help my mom wash clothes at the laundromat, and between cycles I would kill time at the arcade next door. The arcade had a tv and I remember people rushing in and watching the chase almost in a state of shock. To the younger readers here, OJ was at the level of a Farvre or Peyton Manning in levels of fame, a name you that you knew even if you didn't watch NFL.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2015 11:55:30 GMT -5
The U I and II From Elway to Marino (I'm an NFL draft nut though) The Fab Five You Don't Know Bo I haven't seen all of them though. I second June 17, 1994. For me, that is one of those days that I can remember where I was and what I was doing when the chase happened. Long story short, back then I would help my mom wash clothes at the laundromat, and between cycles I would kill time at the arcade next door. The arcade had a tv and I remember people rushing in and watching the chase almost in a state of shock. Ditto man. I was spending the night at my grandma's and she had a fold-out bed in her couch. She'd gotten that out and I was lying on it about to go to bed with the sounds of my grandparents watching TV when the chase started up. My older brother had the radio on in the room he was sleeping in and heard about it, so he ran in and sat at the foot of the bed to watch it. I was too young to know who O.J. was, but I can still clearly remember falling asleep that night to the sounds of Dan Rather covering the OJ Simpson chase. I haven't seen that episode yet, but it's probably on the top of my "want" list as far as the 30 for 30's go.
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Post by Lancers on Mar 8, 2015 12:00:47 GMT -5
I second June 17, 1994. For me, that is one of those days that I can remember where I was and what I was doing when the chase happened. Long story short, back then I would help my mom wash clothes at the laundromat, and between cycles I would kill time at the arcade next door. The arcade had a tv and I remember people rushing in and watching the chase almost in a state of shock. To the younger readers here, OJ was at the level of a Farvre or Peyton Manning in levels of fame, a name you that you knew even if you didn't watch NFL. Seconded on "June 17, 1994" as my favorite 30 For 30 doc. I think everyone who is old enough remembers where they were when the OJ chase happened. It's quite similar to 9/11 in that regard (obviously nowhere close as catastrophic as 9/11). I was outside playing baseball when my mother told my friends and I what was happening and we gathered around and watched it unfold.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Mar 8, 2015 12:15:22 GMT -5
Elway to Marino was good as well, and you get a fantastic look at possibly the greatest NFL Draft class ever. I hate this ep just because it forces me to relive the Jets not taking Marino At least the Jets didn't make the blunder that the Chiefs did. Jim Kelly, Marino, and Ken O'Brien all on the board at QB, and they take Todd Blackledge. Yeah, I listed O'Brien, the guy was a damn good QB, but the problem was he was taken before Marino.
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