Broke sucked
Just watched this one (and Benji, which was sad/good). I understand there are some socioeconomic background factors at play with many professional athletes, and I agree with the one guy in the doc who said the universities the players come from should absolutely be preparing these kids for the cash windfalls that are about to come their way, but blowing millions of dollars on straight up bullshit in just a few years is such an alien concept to me. I want to feel sorry for a few of them, but it's hard to.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 February 2013 05:49 (eleven years ago) link
it's really less that the story was uninteresting and more that it was a poorly told doc. i think the story is actually really interesting!
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 February 2013 06:17 (eleven years ago) link
watched the terry fox story on the bike this morning, highly recommended.
it's weird, netflix streaming said it's not available for streaming, then it showed up as a recommended/option from another 30 for 30 film which was available.
― that's real banjo bro (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I loved that Terry Fox episode
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
ha, at breakfast my kids asked what i had been watching on the trainer, and as i explained the story to them, i got so choked up i had to stop talking for a few secs. they were sorta "?????"
― that's real banjo bro (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
;_;
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
jimmy v one is good, prob didnt need to be 2hrs but w/e
never really noticed but a young valvano looks sorta like a very italian joe namath
pre shot clock game strategy was a trip. you can also tell this was a diff world cuz the final 4 is in ALBUQUERQUE
― johnny crunch, Monday, 18 March 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I'm halfway through the Jimmy V -- it's funny for me because I don't actually know the story. I sort of know about Jimmy V, with him passing on from cancer and that great speech but I don't actually have the backstory. So it's kind of cool building it backwards so to speak. Love learning about this stuff!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
its kinda crazy the # of missed free throws by opposing teams that gives state even the chance to move on
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
elway in a yanks uni looks a lot like mark teixeira
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
they need to go back to the corded helmet phones as the teams only means of communication on draft day
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 April 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
that lawyer had the most insanely detailed notes.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 April 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
not sure i wouldnt prefer bill simmons doing this voice over instead of kev connelley jfc
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 22:02 (ten years ago) link
yeah that was terrible
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 23 October 2013 22:05 (ten years ago) link
I haven't seen this week's yet -- the No Mas one last week was pretty good, except for the cheeseball meeting where they had to stand in a boxing ring and talk to each other. So dumb.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link
did anyone else watch the Tonya Harding ep?
pretty good retelling, though not really a whole ton of new info. I think the best thing it did was get you right in on side of being sympathetic towards Tonya, leading you up to that last 20 minutes where she basically undoes all that goodwill right on camera. Just that couple of bitter remarks and that's all you need to keep right on wondering
But no matter what her involment was, Gilooly sounds like a grade A creep. And her mom? jesus.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 January 2014 04:58 (ten years ago) link
i liked it a lot
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 20 January 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
yeah, it was excellent. real american story. just wish they'd have gotten kerrigan to talk. she looks like the embodiment of the early 90's to me.
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 January 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
this was great. amazing that tonya still gets unhinged so easily about perceived slights from 20 years agp.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:33 (ten years ago) link
she reminds me of girls from my high school
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 02:53 (ten years ago) link
i was trying to be cool with her and then she got furious about kerrigan not wanting to talk with her at the rink and it's like wow
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 04:33 (ten years ago) link
yeah that was a v. revealing moment
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 04:45 (ten years ago) link
she dropped that "princess" and it was all over, gloves are off
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 04:54 (ten years ago) link
when she said she went up to nancy at the training session & apologized & was so spitting mad that nancy didnt say anything to herthat was unsettling, because it seemed to suggest that she had no emotional understanding of what happened. that moment to me she really underlined the suggestion that maybe she had fabricated her own reality out of whole cloth, like her friend suggested at the end.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 05:02 (ten years ago) link
pretty good retelling, though not really a whole ton of new info. I think the best thing it did was get you right in on side of being sympathetic towards Tonya, leading you up to that last 20 minutes where she basically undoes all that goodwill right on camera
came here to post this exactly
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 17 February 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
really enjoying this big east doc, so many fun characters
― call all destroyer, Monday, 17 March 2014 01:57 (ten years ago) link
john thompson is an amazing dude
― call all destroyer, Monday, 17 March 2014 02:25 (ten years ago) link
yeesh the hillsborough one, what a horrible story
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 02:00 (ten years ago) link
I'm just starting this and already getting emotional
― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 03:14 (ten years ago) link
excited for bad boy pistons one in a couple days
― it's a trilby (Clay), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 03:19 (ten years ago) link
should be a good contrast
― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 03:20 (ten years ago) link
xxp yeah i was v. emotional by the end, it's just so needlessly sad.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 03:23 (ten years ago) link
Well that was kinda awesome
― tsrobodo, Friday, 18 April 2014 22:38 (ten years ago) link
damn they were good looking, isaiah, laimbeer, salley
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 April 2014 01:07 (ten years ago) link
ok the raiders thing made me laugh
http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/2010_images/pistons-hated.jpg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 April 2014 01:50 (ten years ago) link
Can't believe the bullshit Isiah had to go through for concurring w/ Rodman on Bird. Especially infuriating that the Boston media got all butthurt about it -- that city was openly and relentlessly racist towards Bill Russell, and now they start whining about "reverse racism"?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 19 April 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
god laimbeer is glorious in this thing
― balls, Sunday, 20 April 2014 05:06 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 April 2014 06:22 (ten years ago) link
more of these
6320 Playing for the Mob[7] Joe Lavine and Cayman Grant October 7, 2014 How Mafia associate Henry Hill orchestrated a point-shaving scheme involving Boston College basketball. Narrated by Ray Liotta, who portrayed Hill in Goodfellas.
6421 The Day The Series Stopped[7] Ryan Fleck October 14, 2014 A 25-year retrospective of the Loma Prieta earthquake, which struck just before the scheduled start of Game 3 of the 1989 World Series.
6522 When The Garden Was Eden[7] Michael Rapaport October 21, 2014 A look back at the New York Knicks' championship teams of the 1970s.
6623 Brian and The Boz[7] Thaddeus D. Matula October 28, 2014 The rise, fall, and post-football life of Brian Bosworth.
6724 Brothers in Exile[7] Mario Diaz November 1, 2014 The story of Liván and Orlando Hernández, half-brothers who fled Cuba separately and became successful major-league pitchers.[5]
6825 Rand University[7] Marquis Daisy November 11, 2014 An exploration of former NFL receiver Randy Moss and his humble (and humbling) origins in Rand, West Virginia.
6926 The U Part 2[7] Billy Corben December 13, 2014 A sequel to The U profiles the Miami Hurricanes football program and its rise from scandal (and calls for the school to drop the sport) to a national championship, only to see new controversy after booster Nevin Shapiro is revealed to have given improper benefits to the program.
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link
so good
http://sportschump.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/laimbeer.jpg
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
vmuch looking forward to the randy moss one.
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
loma prieta shd be good too
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
quake story is great, as per that lengthy oral history that appeared somewhere about a year ago -- will ride as far as the archival footage goes, assuming the interviewees are the same.
yes that is Noo Yawk actor Michael Rapaport who did the Knicks one
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
Would consider viewing all of these except for Bosworth (who gives a shit) and The U pt 2 (new scandal <<<<<<<< old scandal).
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
Rapaport's Tribe Called Quest doc was GREAT
― da croupier, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
Bc doc tonight was really good
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 03:34 (nine years ago) link
boz seems like a thoughtful dude, obv rick reilly is detestable but I prob lean toward believing reilly that boz loved/went along w/ the book and playing on disfunction at OU to move units at the time. overall, wish this was a touch less polished, maybe go into his family life more now but def watchable
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 October 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
moss's highlights from marshall are dope, there was previously a penalty for hurdling a dude? idgi
― johnny crunch, Friday, 14 November 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
i finally saw this today
yeah i thought that was pretty lol that you couldn't hurdle guys, like why it's dope
I love Randy and I always will. I have always had a soft spot for him, and I really dug seeing his backstory laid out and contextualized a little better.
all of those highlight clips, every single one, he's fucking MAGIC. we got to see him play a few early games with the Raiders before he got mad & bent out of shape, it was pretty rad to see him play even then. and my favorite thing is that he'd always give props to the linemen who blocked for him after a touchdown
also: OMAR LITTLE
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 December 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link