ESPN's 30 for 30 Series

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  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    Anyone been watching these recently? I've watched them all - all great in their own ways. The most recent one, June 17th, 1994 was really done well and makes you look back at all that was going on at once - pretty crazy to say the least. Also looking forward to tomorrow's airing of the Two Escobars - which discusses the Columbian drug wars and soccer.

    http://30for30.espn.com/schedule.html
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,961
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Anyone been watching these recently? I've watched them all - all great in their own ways. The most recent one, June 17th, 1994 was really done well and makes you look back at all that was going on at once - pretty crazy to say the least. Also looking forward to tomorrow's airing of the Two Escobars - which discusses the Columbian drug wars and soccer.

    http://30for30.espn.com/schedule.html

    that June 17, 1994 one was awesome. brought back all the memories of the OJ chase. too bad we didn't let him shoot himself though.
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    FiveB247x wrote:
    I could imagine the frustration as a sports fan watching such a thing.

    It's not all that comparable to the same level by any means, but I'm a huge Indy Colts fan in the NFL. I went to the Super Bowl this past year and watched them lose to New Orleans. Albeit, I am not happy about it in the least, I can atleast look at it after the fact in my sports misery and know it meant something special and significant to the people of that region (after Katrina and all). Will never be happy bout it, but I can see it atleast. The South Africa thing was so much more than a mere game or tournament and I'm sure as a bystander, most can see it's significance and importance well after the fact, even if you were rooting for the losing team. :D
    I'm a Colts fan and I would have been just fine with adding more misery to Louisiana if it would have meant another Super Bowl victory ;)
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  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    There's a great podcast by Bill Simmons (Sports Guy) with the producer of that documentary and they discuss how they sync'ed up the chase with those recently public phone calls (which were never allowed as evidence). Certainly very telling to say the least.

    And you forget how really insane it was with all that stuff going on at once.
    pjhawks wrote:
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Anyone been watching these recently? I've watched them all - all great in their own ways. The most recent one, June 17th, 1994 was really done well and makes you look back at all that was going on at once - pretty crazy to say the least. Also looking forward to tomorrow's airing of the Two Escobars - which discusses the Columbian drug wars and soccer.

    http://30for30.espn.com/schedule.html

    that June 17, 1994 one was awesome. brought back all the memories of the OJ chase. too bad we didn't let him shoot himself though.
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    Same here... we'll gett'em this year! By the way, get this book - http://18to88.com/blueblood
    Jason P wrote:
    I'm a Colts fan and I would have been just fine with adding more misery to Louisiana if it would have meant another Super Bowl victory ;)
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    i can't wait for nash's film on terry fox (greatest cdn ever)
  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    Yeah, should be good. So many great stories or things that people heard in passing or thought they knew about, then we find out more... good stuff.
    polaris_x wrote:
    i can't wait for nash's film on terry fox (greatest cdn ever)
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Yeah, should be good. So many great stories or things that people heard in passing or thought they knew about, then we find out more... good stuff.
    polaris_x wrote:
    i can't wait for nash's film on terry fox (greatest cdn ever)

    btw ... saw this the other night ... "into the wind" ... no problem admitting this was brought tears to my eyes ...
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    polaris_x wrote:
    i can't wait for nash's film on terry fox (greatest cdn ever)
    I think we have had this debate before . . . Nash is a distant 2nd to this man / beast

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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Jason P wrote:
    polaris_x wrote:
    i can't wait for nash's film on terry fox (greatest cdn ever)
    I think we have had this debate before . . . Nash is a distant 2nd to this man / beast

    090901_b_teenwolf.jpg

    haha ... just for clarification ... my assertation was terry fox was the greatest canadian ever ... not nash ... 8-)
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    This Terry Fox story just has me in tears, cancer is a hellish disease. :cry:

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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    g under p wrote:
    This Terry Fox story just has me in tears, cancer is a hellish disease. :cry:

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    Any time I EVER watch something on Terry Fox, I'm bawling my eyes out within 10 minutes.
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  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    Yeah watched this one last nite... so sad but inspirational.
    g under p wrote:
    This Terry Fox story just has me in tears, cancer is a hellish disease. :cry:

    Peace
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Yeah watched this one last nite... so sad but inspirational.
    g under p wrote:
    This Terry Fox story just has me in tears, cancer is a hellish disease. :cry:

    Peace

    He made my bicycle ride for AIDS research from Raliegh NC to DC look like very small potatos. I do know some of the suffering he went through when out on those lonely country roads. Still it wasn't even close. May he continue to RIP.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    g under p wrote:
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Yeah watched this one last nite... so sad but inspirational.
    g under p wrote:
    This Terry Fox story just has me in tears, cancer is a hellish disease. :cry:

    Peace

    He made my bicycle ride for AIDS research from Raliegh NC to DC look like very small potatos. I do know some of the suffering he went through when out on those lonely country roads. Still it wasn't even close. May he continue to RIP.

    Peace
    I can't believe he ran a marathon a day.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    what is amazing is that terry fox has literally inspired the world ... there are like something like 60 countries that have terry fox runs ... and it's the world's largest single one day fundraising event for cancer ...
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Tonight I believe there's something to be shown featuring the Boston Redsox, this should be interesting.

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    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    Yeah - I'm not a Yanks fan (am from NY though), but I pretty much hate Masshole sports fans. As I always say, Boston is a lovely city, just filled with awful sports fans :lol:

    And on a personal note, it makes me pretty sick to see how quickly people jump on a bandwagon, and how celebration can turn into arrogance. All those sox fans who used to hate the Yanks as the evil empire are now no different, but can't admit it to themselves (same goes with the whole steriod/cheating issue).
    g under p wrote:
    Tonight I believe there's something to be shown featuring the Boston Redsox, this should be interesting.

    m_96608313e6921779ba975517418a92b0.gif

    Peace
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    polaris_x wrote:
    what is amazing is that terry fox has literally inspired the world ... there are like something like 60 countries that have terry fox runs ... and it's the world's largest single one day fundraising event for cancer ...
    Yeah, he hoped for a dollar for every Canadian... To date (according to CBC) the run has raised $553 million dollars, or 20x his original goal, without any corporate sponsorship. The run also takes place over 5 continents. Well done Terry, well done.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Yeah - I'm not a Yanks fan (am from NY though), but I pretty much hate Masshole sports fans. As I always say, Boston is a lovely city, just filled with awful sports fans :lol:

    And on a personal note, it makes me pretty sick to see how quickly people jump on a bandwagon, and how celebration can turn into arrogance. All those sox fans who used to hate the Yanks as the evil empire are now no different, but can't admit it to themselves (same goes with the whole steriod/cheating issue).
    g under p wrote:
    Tonight I believe there's something to be shown featuring the Boston Redsox, this should be interesting.

    m_96608313e6921779ba975517418a92b0.gif

    Peace

    NO BANDWAGON here I've been a fan since 1971 when i moved there and I especially stick with them even more when they stink.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


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