30 for 30 running thread

100% agree.

 

Bo knows ratings. It set the record for a documentary on ESPN.

http://www.eurweb.com/2012/12/you-dont-know-bo-is-espns-highest-rated-documentary/#iJhzUukMvztHi18V.99

This article says the metered mkt rating was 2.3. The final overall household number could be even higher. Consider that, in cable, anything over 1.0 is good. 1.5 is an unqualified success. 2.3 ? Blockbuster.

You may have a few nits to pick with this doc, but I very much get warm fuzzies when quality TV rates well. I root for it.

Between this and Downton.... I may actually have hope for the art of television.

 

Bo and Jim Thorpe were freaks. And like it or not, you'd have to throw Deion Sanders in the mix. Great in football and learned how to become a decent baseball player. Brian Jordan was a good athlete who did both. Didn't excel but was good enough to make pretty good coin in football and baseball.

 

Jordan was an All-Star in baseball and a Pro Bowler in football. I'd say he excelled. But I agree that he was not quite on the level of Bo or Deion as an athlete.

Jim Brown's another that deserves mention. Anyone who ever saw him play lacrosse says he was one of the best ever in that sport.

 

Steak, you are correct on both counts and I stand corrected. Jordan was an excellent talent and thanks for pointing that out. And as for Jim Brown, no question he was a stud in lacrosse and football.

 

I think my team would take you down in any sport with these guys as my top 5:

1. Bo Jackson
2. Jim Brown
3. Jackie Robinson
4. Jim Thorpe
5. Dave Winfield

 

Obviously not a team based out of Boston

 

Damn good starting five.

 

Next two:

March 17 - Survive and Advance ('83 NC State)

April 23 - Elway to Marino ('83 NFL draft)

 

Given that Valvano is pretty much ESPN's patron saint, is there any chance that's legitimately "warts and all?"

 

Two in a row on events from 1983? I don't like that at all.

 

As an Orioles fan I am hopeful this means we'll have the Joe Altobelli story. (But, seriously, 30 years later and all that I guess ...)