Watching a documentary about Junior Seau was never going to be an objective experience for me.
On long car rides to visit my grandparents in Oceanside, CA, I would bring along years of Chargers media guides, replete with decades of records, statistics, and game results I would try committing to memory as if they were holy texts. In the mid-’90s, the same defensive megastar would grace those covers year after year. It’s the same man, captured in his signature celebration pose, whose No. 55 jersey I would wear one Halloween as a scrawny grade-schooler posing as an NFL great. Wearing that plastic helmet would be the closest I’d come to playing football myself, but to this day, at the bottom of a dresser drawer, I still have a 1995 Afc Championship shirt. Guess who’s the only player on it.
“Seau,” the latest film under the ESPN “30 for 30” doc...
On long car rides to visit my grandparents in Oceanside, CA, I would bring along years of Chargers media guides, replete with decades of records, statistics, and game results I would try committing to memory as if they were holy texts. In the mid-’90s, the same defensive megastar would grace those covers year after year. It’s the same man, captured in his signature celebration pose, whose No. 55 jersey I would wear one Halloween as a scrawny grade-schooler posing as an NFL great. Wearing that plastic helmet would be the closest I’d come to playing football myself, but to this day, at the bottom of a dresser drawer, I still have a 1995 Afc Championship shirt. Guess who’s the only player on it.
“Seau,” the latest film under the ESPN “30 for 30” doc...
- 9/21/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The tragic story of NFL favorite Junior Seau will be the first documentary from the new slate of 30 for 30 projects from ESPN Films, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
Director Kirby Bradley (Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel) spent extensive time with the family of the beloved San Diego Charger to capture a portrait of the Hall of Famer who, after his 2012 suicide at the age of 43, was found to have suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. In recent years, there have been increased calls for the league to take seriously the link between Cte, which is believed to ...
Director Kirby Bradley (Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel) spent extensive time with the family of the beloved San Diego Charger to capture a portrait of the Hall of Famer who, after his 2012 suicide at the age of 43, was found to have suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. In recent years, there have been increased calls for the league to take seriously the link between Cte, which is believed to ...
- 9/13/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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