30 for 30 running thread

I think the Len Bias one was my favorite with the Iverson one coming in a close second. The Westhead one was pretty good, especially when they showed the George Mason logo.

 

I think the Bias and Westhead ones were the most intruiging to me, primarily because of all the potential lost when Bias and Gathers died at such a young age. The Ali-Holmes one was great too, because you can just see the future health troubles for Ali looming in the interviews he does.

And though a bit cheesy,the end of the Westhead doc, with Kimble draining a left-handed FT, was simply outstanding.

 

I haven't seen them all but I have recorded everything TSN has shown up here (the Iverson one is the only one that hasn't aired yet).

As a boxing fan, I loved Ali-Holmes (just when you thought you'd seen everything there was to see on Ali) and the one on the Miami Hurricanes (total fanboi looser here) and the Colts marching band. The USHL one might be my fave of the ones I have seen. I thought the Len Bias doc was tremendous. Knew little about his story other than getting drafted and dying. Huggy Jr. was captivated through the whole thing. Pretty good look at how one guy can have it all and lose it in no time.

 

I've been watching the first 15 minutes of "Silly Little Games" about fantasy baseball, and I'm thoroughly enjoying this look at how it began.

These guys were lunatics, that is until they invite the token female to join their league. Funny shit.

 

I caught most of Silly Little Game and laughed quite a bit. ;D The funniest thing was watching these guys futilely try to make a buck off this, a prospect that was hilariously doomed from the get-go.

Great idea to work with the actors - it's not like there's much footage from those days, and even if there were, it wouldn't be interesting.

Nice to see the series "lighten up" in this way - documentaries don't have to always be tragic, etc.

 

I think the tenor of Silly Little Game was spot-on. And the part that made me laugh the loudest was when the guy who won it the first time was describing his Yoo-hoo shower: "It was the happiest I've ever been to be sticky. Well, there was one other time, but that's a completely different story."

I'm not a fantasy nerd by any stretch. I don't do baseball, because I just don't have the attention span. But that was one entertaining hour.

 

That dude was pretty funny.

Great cameo by Meat Loaf.

 

Agreed. And worthless one by Bill Simmons.

Also liked the description of the two types of people who attended their conventions: the kinda nerdy and the extremely "like ambulatory schizophrenic" nerdy. The Rotisserie wife also cracked me up.

The filmmakers made the right call going with the comedy angle on this one.

 

I agreed with Simmons when he said those guys should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. MLB wouldn't be as popular as it is without the creation of fantasy baseball.

 

That doc had to be campy. Now whether it's Roy or Bert is up to you.

 

That wasn't Simmons who said that, was it? Thought it was Berry, because he got far too serious about it...

 

You're right, it was the Berry.

Simmons made the comment about Fantasy Sports being the No. 3 thing the internet is used for (behind No. 2 gambling and porn).