It’s hard to know exactly why football has had such a stranglehold on the public consciousness over the past few decades, but it would be a lot easier to figure out if there were always cats on the field.
Last night’s Monday Night Football game will be quickly lost to fans outside the Nfc East, but what will likely live on in future years will be the fact that, with five minutes to go in the 2nd quarter of a Cowboys-Giants game, a black cat scampered on the field.
Radio announcer Kevin Harlan’s 45-second call of the action spread like wildfire through social media, and deservedly so. Harlan’s just the best. (It would be easy to pinpoint this as a career highlight for him if he wasn’t already responsible for two of the best non-sports sports moments of the last few years: narrating...
Last night’s Monday Night Football game will be quickly lost to fans outside the Nfc East, but what will likely live on in future years will be the fact that, with five minutes to go in the 2nd quarter of a Cowboys-Giants game, a black cat scampered on the field.
Radio announcer Kevin Harlan’s 45-second call of the action spread like wildfire through social media, and deservedly so. Harlan’s just the best. (It would be easy to pinpoint this as a career highlight for him if he wasn’t already responsible for two of the best non-sports sports moments of the last few years: narrating...
- 11/5/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The United States of Football is essentially the opposite of Friday Night Lights. A feel-bad documentary about the concussion epidemic in the NFL—somehow only recently become an issue—more than one of its interviewees died between the time they were filmed and the project's completion. Director Sean Pamphilon, best known as the man who leaked audio of the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal last year, veers between the informative (a hard look at a culture that promotes dangerous playing styles from a very early age) and the superfluous (an inordinate amount of attention paid to offensive-tackle-turned-activist Kyle Turley's band) throughout, and doesn't always strike a workable balance. Probably the most interesting thing he does is spotlight the players' wives...
- 8/21/2013
- Village Voice
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