# Straight dope on the ESPN 30 for 30 series? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 12, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-on-the-espn-30-for-30-series/724912 "2015-07-12T03:28:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-on-the-espn-30-for-30-series/724912/21 "2015-07-19T22:18:38Z")
I really liked **Of Miracles and Men**. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-on-the-espn-30-for-30-series/724912/22 "2015-07-22T11:32:53Z")
The 30 for 30 series is by and large very well done. Just like pretty much all TV, theres probably a few that you might like more than others, but for the most part its solid through and through. I’ll add my support to Hillsborough, which was unbelievable. I also really enjoyed the recent Of Miracles and Men… In addition… Jordan Rides the Bus, 4 Days in October, June 17 1994, Catching Hell are probably my favorites (I don’t know that Catching Hell is technically a 30 for 30… but, whatever…) But even the ones I didn’t mention are really good… (Elway to Marino, The Day the Series Stopped, Playing for the Mob… off the top of my head stand out) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-on-the-espn-30-for-30-series/724912/23 "2015-07-22T12:09:57Z")
> [@m30wc0w](#): > > Because they hire people like Chris Broussard (he’d talk on live TV about what his “sources” were telling him but then you’d be able to clearly see that he was on Twitter). The Decision was incredibly stupid too. Mainly just Chris Broussard though. Oh, and Chad Ford ( [Deadspin | ESPN's Chad Ford Has Been Retroactively Editing Draft Boards For Years](http://deadspin.com/espns-chad-ford-has-been-retroactively-editing-draft-bo-1681631642) ). > In other words, their personnel choices are highly suspect. Many of the 30 for 30 shows were directed by well respected filmmakers. I have not seen all of them but I have liked each one I’ve seen. There didn’t seem to be any way that I would find a documentary about the Baltimore Colts band interesting. I was wrong, \*The Band That Wouldn’t Die \*is great. It was directed by Barry Levinson. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-on-the-espn-30-for-30-series/724912/24 "2015-07-22T12:23:55Z")
> [@The\_Tof](#): > > The 30 for 30 series is by and large very well done. Just like pretty much all TV, theres probably a few that you might like more than others, but for the most part its solid through and through. > > I’ll add my support to Hillsborough, which was unbelievable. I also really enjoyed the recent Of Miracles and Men… In addition… Jordan Rides the Bus, 4 Days in October, **June 17 1994** , Catching Hell are probably my favorites (I don’t know that Catching Hell is technically a 30 for 30… but, whatever…) > > But even the ones I didn’t mention are really good… (Elway to Marino, The Day the Series Stopped, Playing for the Mob… off the top of my head stand out) (Emphasis mine.) I came to mention this one. It’s deeply fascinating and endlessly rewatchable for me. It talks about everything _else_ that happened the day of O.J. Simpson’s famous low-speed car chase. It’s kind of remarkable how many significant things in sports news happened on that day, through sheer coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-on-the-espn-30-for-30-series/724912/25 "2015-07-22T18:42:49Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Ill always believe that ESPN and its parent Disney are a criminal orginization because they force anyone who wants cable to pay a $5 a month tribute whether they want the network or not. Where is the outrage on the left that ordinary people have to pay $60 a year to a network that makes millionaires and billionaires richer? There is no outrage because the vast majority of people don’t understand the economics of it and don’t know how to protest or organize themselves to get such outrages eliminated IMHO. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-on-the-espn-30-for-30-series/724912.md?page=1)