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I watched the first hour and enjoyed it.


The director, Stanley Nelson, has done mostly black history/culture films so that explains the racial emphasis from a lot of the commentators. I took issue with them talking about the lack of black QB's in the NFL since there were several successful black QB's at that time. I also found the footage of Jimmy the Greek to be offensive since his theories were discredited a long time ago.

Home is what got Vick in trouble so I don't know why he felt the need to go back there. Most of my peers wanted to escape home but he wanted to go back there????? I find it odd that Q Phillips was interviewed so often since he is one of the guys who took plea deals to convict Vick for Bad Newz Kennels dogfighting.

I think they should have put Beamer's promise to redshirt Vick in the film since the '98 season would have been AMAZING with Vick scrambling for TD's out of a basic wildcat formation. There was about 28 minutes about his Tech career but Vick spent most of his time talking about how great he was. He did mention that Bustle helped him with film study. It was cool to see interviews with Ricky Bustle and Cory Moore twenty years later.

I was kind of disappointed that he called Donovan McNabb to ask if he should leave early. McNabb was probably still rooting for the Orange and would love to see Vick out of the Big East. The filmmakers should have had Beamer on talking about how they advised Vick to stay another year to become a better QB and mature.

I might watch the rest of the documentary but I already know the story.



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Posted: 02/01/2020 at 12:48PM



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