30 for 30 football story series#

On this particular round he was randomly paired with Robert Abbott, a senior coordinating producer at ESPN. My brother Robert Keane, an ’89 Notre Dame graduate and the one I stood next to at that Notre Dame-Miami game, plays golf at the Golf Club of Avon in Avon, Connecticut.

30 for 30 football story series#

What if I told you this latest edition in ESPN Films’ “30 for 30” series started with a conversation between holes on a golf course in Connecticut? In a couple clicks an ESPN executive found an acclaimed director who proved to be the only one who could tell this story. Those raised in the faith might call it a divine Google search.

How this film came to life involves a book that hadn’t been written yet, the unwavering vision of an award-winning producer and some Internet research. Convicts” tells the story of one of the greatest college football games ever played, a game remembered for an inflammatory–and irresistible–phrase that appeared on a bootleg T-shirt. 10 after the Heisman Trophy presentation. The film makes its national debut on ESPN at 9 p.m. The Notre Dame campus served as host for multiple screenings at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and the Guglielmino Athletics Complex Friday night. The documentary made its world premiere earlier this week at the 52 nd annual Chicago International Film Festival. About that phrase–the one that still brings discomfort to so many. Now, there’s an ESPN “30 for 30” about that game. Years later, what happened in that game would be ranked as the single greatest moment in the history of Notre Dame Stadium. As an 11-year-old, I stood next to my older brother in the 59 th row of what was then a 60-row stadium.

1-ranked and supposedly invincible Miami Hurricanes take on the underdog Fighting Irish. I was there on that mid-October day watching the No. This was that time when the kids in the gold helmets thundered through college football, defeating an arch nemesis along the way. Maybe you remember the scrawny coach with the lisp who sounded the alarm that woke up the echoes. Perhaps you heard about what happened here at Notre Dame Stadium when the then undisputed kings of college football visited back in 1988.