30 for 30 running thread

[qtlaw]

The podcasts are enjoyable; really liked one on Yankees Suck tshirts

 

[murphyc]

A few weeks ago, I finally got around to the Bad Boys, about the late 1980s/early 1990s Detroit Pistons. One of the worst 30 for 30s I've seen. It's a good topic, but the presentation IMO was flat and dull. I kept waiting for it to pick up, but it never did.

 

[terrier]

"What Carter Lost" is getting a lot of hype, from what I'm reading this week.
Taped a couple last week. "Four Days in October" was indeed meh. Not strictly a 30 for 30, but "World Beaters" was better.

 

[expendable]

I just watched the new one on the Redskins replacement players. Another good one. I was in the eighth grade at the time (30 years ago).

I didn't realize that the they didn't receive Super Bowl rings. Holy microcosms, Batman!

 

[sgreenwell]

I need to catch up on the docs, but the 30 for 30 podcast series was really good stuff. Some new individual stories, and some interviews / cut content from the more recent docs.

 

[qtlaw]

"What Carter Lost" was an excellent examination of the misperception of a Dallas public school, what happens when families are invested in their school and kids (whether white or black), and what may happen even with great caring parents and an affluent environment.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Donald Trump is always held up (by him, at least) as this great businessman, but you don't have to be Mark Cuban to note that he continually forks over his investors and partners to his own benefit. The USFL turned Trump from a cocky real-estate guy (built on his father's fortune) into a national name. Trump didn't give fork-all about the USFL's success, only Trump's success. Ask anyone who has invested with Trump, and you'll find people who got forked over 10 ways to Sunday. How many bankruptcies have his properties had? How many of his bondholders were left with nothing but pieces of paper not worthy enough to wipe your ash with?

Clicked on the start of this thread by mistake and started reading. This from page 5 was one of the best of a series of posts about Trump. Interesting to read them in 2017.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I just watched the new one on the Redskins replacement players. Another good one. I was in the eighth grade at the time (30 years ago).

I didn't realize that the they didn't receive Super Bowl rings. Holy microcosms, Batman!

I missed that one. I'll have to look for it.

One thing that was interesting about the strike was how different teams prepared for it. Some teams spent a lot of time preparing and signing players because they saw opportunities to win games. Others, like the Giants, didn't care because they didn't want their regular players upset at the coaches.

I have a book on Ernie Accorsi around somewhere, and he was the Browns' GM back then. He told a funny story about how, as the strike was winding down, Gary Danielson and Brian Brennan came to him and said their teammates had signed off on them crossing the picket line for the third game with the thought of stealing a win against the rest of the replacements.

Accorsi agreed, and Danielson and Brennan ended up having a field day against the replacements. But in the fourth quarter, Accorsi found out that Brennan was close to the Browns' record for receiving yards in a game which was held by all-time Browns great Dante Lavelli. Accorsi realized that the record would be tarnished if Brennan broke it in a replacement game, so he was frantically calling down to the bench to have Brennan taken out. Brennan, after being benched, turned around and shook his fist at Accorsi's box because he didn't get the record.

 

[exmediahack]

The 30/30 on the 1987 Redskins and the strike was a top fiver. Really that well done I thought.

 

[playthrough]

I just watched the new one on the Redskins replacement players. Another good one. I was in the eighth grade at the time (30 years ago).

I didn't realize that the they didn't receive Super Bowl rings. Holy microcosms, Batman!

Yeah, that was sh*tty. And John Kent Cooke saying there wasn't enough money for more rings could not have sounded less convincing.

As others said, another tremendous 30 for 30. I was 13 years old and not a Redskins fan but knew guys like Thielemann, May, Olkewicz just from all those games on CBS.

 

[JC]

Why should scabs receive rings?

 

[nietsroob17]

It's a lot like how the MLB replacement players of 1995 who eventually joined teams post-strike (Shane Spencer, Damian Miller, Kevin Millar, etc.) were not allowed some of the same perks, or something like that.