UW 30 For 30
WoolleyDoog
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ESPN sucks, barely does 30 for 30s anymore, and when they do now half the time they're about dumbshit like YouTubers who do trick shots and eGamers. It's a dark and dreary offseason and it would be the perfect time to have a harrowing documentary about something UW-football related come out and there's been some great fodder in program history. If there was one well-made documentary about something UW football what would you want it to be?
*I'll note the best ones tend to not just be about a year or a team so more about big stories than a documentary just about the 91 Dwags.
My ideas…
You Can't Afford This, Billy Joe - You got everything perfect here - a brash and controversial character at the center of a story of the ultimate success which gets hit with a curveball which changes everything and ultimately results destruction, controversy, mystery, and significantly changes the course of a major football program. There's also the great final punctuation which works so well in sports movies and documentaries, closing with what the UW program was ripped apart for compared to what the sport became with NIL.
The Dawgs of War - An "insane" story which starts with the poaching of Neuheisel from Colorado for $1 million which everyone forgets was incredibly ahead of the times and a sign of things to come. You have everything with the 2000 season on and off the field with Stevens, Pharms, Vontoure, and Curtis Williams anchored by the story of the team which refused to lose led by local hero Tui and who gave the program one last gasp of greatness and Roses before a 15-year Hell. As a book by a certain someone did, this would go beyond the pure negatively of the Scoreboard, Baby book, but also not sugar coat anything with the aforementioned players.
A few ideas maybe more loose and not exactly connected to the program are Dave Kopay (kind of surprised nothing has ever happened with him) and Nate Robinson (more basketball than football though).
Any other ideas?
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Kinda makes me puke, but you could do the uo/uw rivalry. Completely lopsided forever…then the PAC 10 fucks us and uo scavenges our 20 less scholarships (Sirmon, etc). Rich Brooks/Wheaton wake up uncle Phil in ‘94 and uw lets little brother keep powering up.
A tragic tale…but great television.
If a PeaPatch is included in this documentary, count me in
Nike and Jordan would need to be mentioned and the real villain is Jordan’s mom because he wanted to sign with Converse. That tipped the scales and shot Nike to the top and the worse pick in history.
Fuck Oregon, those mouth breathers would have never been invited to the B1G academically without Washington.
No thanks on the 30 for 30 with Whoregon. Could be a decent book idea for DJ but meth heads don’t read so he loses half his audience.
Chris Peterman's 5-year plan to lose the Rose Bowl
Napoleon Kaufman's life arc could be interesting, except ESPN probably doesn't want anything that positive
The UW-Cal rivalry in rowboat might be interesting
My previous book idea about Jacques Robinson and Nate Robinson's UW careers tethered together to form a story.
we need more Gil Dobie content. 58-0-3 in 9 seasons at Washington. Also won 3 consecutive natties at Cornell
Inventing West Coast football and the influence of Bear Bryant and Bud Wilkinson. The switch to two platoon football and the effect on the national champs at Washington
But if you look at Trojan Wars ESPN would do the 1990 to 1992 Huskies. Fame fortune and probation
so true, forgot about the probation angle of our fall that coincided with the rise of Nike University Corp and the brief Coug Dynasty lol
The Oregon/Washington rivalry would be great regionally, but don't know if it would be interesting enough nationally. It's really unfortunate UW didn't have their shit together more in the early 2010s to have better games with their best teams the way Stanford did.
I think you would work just about everything 90-92 into one centered on BJ, including backstory on Don James leading up to that, including insight from Saban. You can touch on the disappointment of 1990 - losing close at the eventual national champion and somehow losing to UCLA at home. Then the starting QB (and eventual NFL star) gets hurt in the offseason and opens the door for Hobert.
you keep fucking up this story. one more time, all at once. Bird/Magic - Converse. Jordan wanted the Germans because he preferred the shoes.
Haha creep, I simply wanted to see if you’re paying attention. Fuck off, I’m old
haie pretending to be a geriatric dawg fan on his very obvious alt is borderline psychopathic.
Dumb.
it’s very obvious dude. Down to the exact same emoji usage 🍻
Zero alts here buddy. Sorry you're retarded.
Jesus Christ we have another idiot genius code breaker like Boblet 😂🍻
Actually lil ricky bobby sent this dipshit zero a dm since he can’t post. Not only was the refuge burned to the ground and tossed out with last week’s garage the whiny little bitch is so desperate to post he resorts to messaging this moron. We know you are dying to post Boblet. The zero pitch count instead of being banned is for your .0081% saving face you raging woman hating loser. You aren’t missed, enjoy the sidelines you freeloading bitch. 🍻😂
all the fuckery that went on when they were a serious football program