30 for 30

If you aren't watching these documentaries on ESPN, you are seriously missing out as a sports fan! The shows and the subjects are AWESOME! "Without Bias", the story about Len Bias's tragic drug related death, has to be one of the best sports documentaries to date. My other favorites include "Run Ricky Run" (Ricky Williams' trials and tribulations away from football) "The U" (University of Miami back in the day), and "Muhammad and Larry"( which is an AWESOME look at the friendship between Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes. TONIGHT, at 8pm, on ESPN is "Jordan Rides the Bus" This is the MJ story you haven't heard. I know we all know about Michael quitting basketball and going to play baseball, but this story is supposed to delve deeper into Michael Jordan. This film will show us that Michael is NOT always the egotistical sports star that we "know"( although, I think he has earned the right to have a slightly big ego...he is the GREATEST basketball player of ALL TIME)! This is the story of Jordan, just trying to be good at a game that he loves, trying to do something for his father, trying to grieve, and wrestle with emotions he felt too soon. Just when you thought you knew everything about MJ, he gives his Hall of Fame speech, and lets us (the common man who CAN'T FLY), into his competitive spirit. Many people thought he came off as cocky after that speech. I do think he could have said some things differently, but when Jordan was done, I thought to myself, NOW that was a speech that I wasn't expecting and it was great to feel like I was in the mind of Micheal Jordan. Now we have "Jordan Rides the Bus"to show everyone, who has been dogging MJ for his lack of humility, that no one should judge. Those were some pretty BIG shoes Michael had to fill and his life is not OUR business out of "right." We should sit back and say "Thank you MJ" for letting us, your fans, see more than a glimpse of GREATNESS in our lifetime.