Football season is finally here and we're all
excited, I hope. Well, as for finding a Football film worth recommending it’s
kind of hard to take a good look at some of them and say this is worth
recommending but yet you find out that there's not another one recommending in
the foreseeable future. So, with some of the Documentaries that ESPN's 30 for
30 has done, well I guess this one I believe is the better version of when it
comes to HS Football in Texas was like, well have to do. What Carter Lost is
basically a retelling of the opponent team Dallas Carter that won against
Odessa Permian the main architype for the bestseller Friday Night Lights, if I
can find any words to describe this more of a Greek Tragedy, but most
importantly surprising the very people who don't expect much, and sure I know
it sounds corny but when you get the chance to ever watch something like this
on Hulu or ESPN Plus you'd be amazed of what went down.
What Carter Lost, directed by Adam Hootnick
for ESPN Films 30 for 30 series, is the saga of that team, the 1988 Dallas
Carter Cowboys. Somehow, Carter managed to win it all on the field, and
somehow, they threw it all away.
In all honesty what I like most about this story is
that it’s a hundred percent fact and doesn't over dramatizes the events that
took place, unlike the movie or the TV Show in which it just overdramatize so
much little things that really shouldn't be overdramatic and to be fair I have
nothing against the movie itself I just wish they simply told the truth when it
comes what happen to Odessa Permian and Dallas Carter and not just say oh these
two teams meet in the State Championship when they really meet in the
semi-finals and hell even the Book itself explains that these two teams played
against each other in the semi-finals so I clearly don't understand why
Hollywood would even say hey let’s make this better and say these two will meet
in the State Championship. Anyway, enough talk back to the documentary itself,
when I say that this story is a Greek tragedy meaning this was the definition
of a HS Football team winning it all, but yet letting the ego lifestyle those
player been carrying throughout their life take a holed of them and do the most
unthinkable thing they could ever imagine and sure you can use different point
of views as to why they would do such thing or what would pose them to make
these bad choices but in the end it's really unexplainable because when
Football is such a big thing in the heart of Texas it's really no secret of how
much rock star royalty theses students get and probably still do now which sure
it does sound weird because there's other sports to follow when it comes to
Texas but deep down I'm from Nebraska so, I can't deny that I will ever
understand it. So, in closing if your ever in the mood for a football film to
watch in days were they're is not any games on I would recommend What Carter
Lost because no matter how much I can trash on how terrible the show of Friday
Night Lights was this was probably the only side-story, other than Friday Night
Lights story as a whole that I can look at and say they speak the honest truth
about what when down in Texas.
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