Brian and the Boz

 

                        Well, we're during Football season and usually I'd hand out some football movies to recommend but there not like Baseball movies because let's be real the most famous football movies like Varsity Blues are ones, I can't stand so I'm going to try and limit the amount of football movies I can find but thankfully ESPN's 30 for 30 is a good place to look at some football movies to watch. And the story of Brian Bosworth is a quintessential and relatable story about having both a good side and a bad side when it comes to being a college football star. Also, this is a great modern-day story of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

                       For those who don't know who Brian Bosworth is, well a great example is he plays the sheriff on the Dr. Pepper commercials on the fictional world of Fansville. But he also was well known as an Oklahoma football legend who was excellent at his position as a middle linebacker but through the course of his three seasons in College Football, he let his mouth get the better of him for which led to the dismissal of him playing College Football then playing NFL. Though the more interesting aspect when it comes to Bosworth is that it wasn't the drugs (well a side from the steroid use) that lead to his downfall like Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden, it was mostly his mouth plus his mullet that became most of his self-destructive behavior, moreover, throwing his entire teammates as well as his coach Barry Switzer under the bus by publishing his autobiography.  And in all honesty, I kind of look at his entire football career as a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type persona where the man Brian Bosworth is clearly the Dr. Jekyll and the alter ego The Boz is without a doubt Mr. Hyde, and in all honesty that's really something you don't see every day of course but if this was ever made into a movie it would defiantly be like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type movie mixed with the Wolf of Wall Street. Though the other thing on what makes this a great story is you've kind of in a sense relate because he had in overbearing father that was proud of him but didn't show it in a very sensitive sense, so that's something in a sense that both Bosworth and Strawberry have in common that they both had terrible fathers, though that's something you shouldn't be proud of. But in the end, each of them found a way to get themselves out of the darkest moments. Now that Disney + has been putting more of the 30 for 30 into their category of sports related category? I'd defiantly give this a must see for your football needs and granted this is just my sense of humor kicking in, have your kids watching this because let’s be fair when they get to that age of puberty this is going to be a documentary for them when their ego will be more uncontrollably for anyone to contain.