Sammy Sofa

I think all of them are supposed to be there for the time being. I can't think of one I haven't been able to find, plus ESPN's own commercials are claiming you can watch them all on Netflix right now.

Does anybody need some coconut water?

Wait, what? They all up there this morning. Hell, ESPN was running commercials during the doc last night about how they're all on Netflix.

Big time. Or "Pony Excess"-like, that really charts the downfall. Basically if the point of it was to argue they were the best team ever, it failed. If the point was to figure out why they didn't go on to further greatness, it failed. It was just this muddled bunch of kinda fan-service basically just designed for the participating players and Ditka to talk themselves up. And it was weird how they didn't touch on the problems the Fridge has gone through at all. Watching it, I felt like Ditka wasn't painted in a positive light at all. Like I felt like minimizing him and making him look like a dummy was a major, if not completely overt, theme...between all the players directly criticizing him, McMahon talking about how he always called the wrong play, Wilson (IIRC) basically calling him an idiot for playing Flutie, the comments from Mongo (I think) about how they told the other guys to lift Ditka up at the end of the SB just so that he wouldn't whine about them raising Buddy up. Maybe that was my bias going in, but I came away thinking Ditka looked more along for the ride and less responsible for any success than ever, and I already didn't have a high opinion of him. To me, that IS the Ditka Myth; the big dumb animal who yelled and said dumb things and clashed with his players and the press but still got things done. As opposed to just an idiot who lucked into taking over a team with that defense.

The only ones that are truly critical of teams have been of college programs; that's why I said I was hesitant to say "more critical" because I wasn't looking for a hatchet job. Just something that looked more at what happened afterwards as opposed to the, IMO, boring and oft-repeated story of how they got to the top.

Yeah, it wasn't bad, but it could have been a LOT better. I would have preferred something a little less fanboy-ish; I don't know if more critical is the right term, but something that really did try to figure out why a team that great didn't go on to more. This seemed to have a similar tone to the one about the Bills, which I thought was really well done, but this isn't a team that needs praising or vindication. This basically needed the opposite: OK, you guys are great at talking up how great you are, but what happened? If it really was simply Ryan leaving, then this could have just been one of the shorts, if bothering to make it at all. Without having really experienced that era first-hand, I always got the impression that it was McMahon's injuries along with Ditka being a boob and being a boob with the QB position. And maybe some bad luck. I will fully cop to wanting to see the Ditka myth deflated some more along those lines. But yeah, McMahon not staying healthy, the organization's terrible approach in general to the QB, focusing too much on defense, Ryan leaving, issues with the owners, etc., etc..

Yeah, it wasn't bad, but it could have been a LOT better. I would have preferred something a little less fanboy-ish; I don't know if more critical is the right term, but something that really did try to figure out why a team that great didn't go on to more. This seemed to have a similar tone to the one about the Bills, which I thought was really well done, but this isn't a team that needs praising or vindication. This basically needed the opposite: OK, you guys are great at talking up how great you are, but what happened? If it really was simply Ryan leaving, then this could have just been one of the shorts, if bothering to make it at all. could it have used a little 30 for 30 The U type treatment? Big time. Or "Pony Excess"-like, that really charts the downfall. Basically if the point of it was to argue they were the best team ever, it failed. If the point was to figure out why they didn't go on to further greatness, it failed. It was just this muddled bunch of kinda fan-service basically just designed for the participating players and Ditka to talk themselves up. And it was weird how they didn't touch on the problems the Fridge has gone through at all.

Yeah, it wasn't bad, but it could have been a LOT better. I would have preferred something a little less fanboy-ish; I don't know if more critical is the right term, but something that really did try to figure out why a team that great didn't go on to more. This seemed to have a similar tone to the one about the Bills, which I thought was really well done, but this isn't a team that needs praising or vindication. This basically needed the opposite: OK, you guys are great at talking up how great you are, but what happened? If it really was simply Ryan leaving, then this could have just been one of the shorts, if bothering to make it at all.

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Well, that was a weird response. I had no idea I was on trial.

It's right up there with reading. http://i.giphy.com/sgYcX1QqBGPsI.gif

While I wish the reality was they simply dumped a pile of pizza goo on Dom DeLuise, in truth the FX guy that first played Pizza refused to put the costume back on when they had to do reshoots. PIZZA THE HUTT IS HELL.

DAMMIT, SOMEONE BRING ME A TOMBSTONE.

Hahahahahaah! Excellent. I love the uncomfortable grossness Pizza the Hutt inspires in people. Me? He weirdly makes me hungry for shitty frozen pizza. http://i.imgur.com/3mCweul.gif

Make it a poll. I will abide by pure democracy, not filthy capitalism.

Haha, yeah...I'm not disinterested in 85 because of 69...I'm disinterested in 85 because it's talked about so damn much. And also, I have much more attachment to teams I was invested in, and at 9 years old, I just wasn't that invested in the Bears. I thought it was one of the weaker type 30 for 30's, mainly because they let the players basically take over it, but they don't have much of anything to say. They think they're a bunch of scary, insane guys with CA-RAZY stories who are actually just really, really boring. It touched on a lot of interesting things (how dominating the defense was, the mix of personalities, basically ushering in modern day media endorsements, the after effects of football), but it was on the level of the 30 for 30's that were basically made by the major sports organizations in that it was too focused on making it a love letter to the subject. The second half was better, if not depressing as hell. Seeing the different reactions to Payton's frustration over not scoring in the SB was interesting (but then when they have an opportunity to do something similar with Ditka going media crazy when he told everyone else not to and how it pissed a lot of them off, that's only briefly touched on and mostly played for a joke), as was McMahon dealing with his injuries.

Math is hard.

Noooo, that he turned out to be one of those dudes who can keep up a crazy high BABIP even though they have no business doing so. Like, here it was just kinda high for a scrub with declining production each season, but in Japan it was CRAZY high. Gentlemen, we've accomplished something here today.

What? No.

It's gonna be depressing as hell.

Hey, looks like maybe he was just one of those guys after all: Japanese baseball is weird.

I doubt anyone here thinks the Matt Murton from the second half of 2007 was the "real" Matt Murton is what I mean; he clearly had a largely unsustainable run for those last couple+ months. He was an unremarkable player who sometimes had flashes of looking like more. Combine that with his stumpfooted defense and he's a big ol' oh well. To me his BABIP during his good periods seems a bit too high for someone so forgettable. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

maybe it's because you hate white players And damned Murton was the whitest of them all.