30 for 30 running thread

The comment about the braces also included a jawline that was showing signs of shifting outward. Lewis had both braces and protruding jaw.

 

This is definitely amongst the Top 5 worst. Thought the Ice Cube and the Marion Jones ones were also bad, but the absolute worst one was the Steinbrenner one--just awful.

 

The Red Sox one was painful during the bar scenes. They got all the players, and had footage. Why am I watching Bill Simmons and Dork Comedian babble in a bar?

 

I missed the Red Sox one. Yet, oddly, I now feel safe including it in my 5 Worst based solely on that description.

 

Tonight's was the first big swing and miss of these films that I can recall. And it was a big swing and miss.

Other than the guy's mom, maybe, nobody wanted to see Swade or Swane or whatever on screen for 90 minutes. I began to hate him when I saw him wearing those dirty adidas sneakers to his first meeting with the big-money booster.

 

The guy's side trip to Duke, only to bash the school, made no sense.

Look, I can go to Cameron and sit baseline and chant "Rock....chalk....Jayhawk" in an empty arena. Seemed unnecessary. A total "Look at me..." moment.

Clown.

 

I grew up as obsessed with Kansas basketball as this guy, though I like to think my fandom has mature a bit as an adult, so I was looking forward to this one and pretty disappointed. This Swade guy, while I'm glad he helped get the rules to Lawrence, was annoying. There was a pretty good story to tell and he turned it into an exercise in look-at-me, when in reality what got it done was Mark Allen called Bill Self and Self snapped his fingers.

 

What are the odds that Booth keeps bidding beyond $2 million or so if there's not a camera there? He had to feel some pressure to keep going.

 

This story is much more interesting, and took less time to get through:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7692635/dr-james-naismith-bill-self-history-basketball-kansas

 

Indeed. He knew there was a film being made, knew the cameras were on him, and knew that this would be the film's climactic moment--yeah, I'd say it added a wee bit of pressure to keep bidding.

 

What a douche. Glad I didn't watch.

 

I didn't have high hopes for it, but I did start to watch to see if it sucked me in. It didn't. I watched for about 10-15 minutes and kind of felt bad for the guy. We all love teams when we're in high school and college. Then we move on.