Jack Trice article
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Let's encourage a local filmmaker to contact ESPN and see what they need to do to make this happen.
It's not really thirty for thirty material. Nobody is around that was around then, there is very little information and even the information that we do have is often refuted by others and facts are found out to be not actually true. Who would you even talk to? the school historian?
You want to get rid of smoke on the water? You have the leaders of the team reciting his letter in snippets as they walk into the stadium with music behind it. The crowd would go nuts as the words "I will" are read as the team runs through the tunnel.
The last two paragraphs are very well written:
"Although Trice remains anonymous outside of Iowa, he has risen to a level of prominence in Ames of mythical proportions, a Paul Bunyan of gridiron lore. When you strip away the embellishments and reckon that he did not win a Heisman, did not captain a national championship — hell, he played only one real college game and didn't even finish that — there's still something there to admire that won't go away.
"Consider once again that young man alone in his hotel room. Night has fallen. He has finished his letter. He folds it, stuffs it in his coat pocket, and heads off to the team meeting — eyes open, ready to do big things."
"Although Trice remains anonymous outside of Iowa, he has risen to a level of prominence in Ames of mythical proportions, a Paul Bunyan of gridiron lore. When you strip away the embellishments and reckon that he did not win a Heisman, did not captain a national championship — hell, he played only one real college game and didn't even finish that — there's still something there to admire that won't go away.
"Consider once again that young man alone in his hotel room. Night has fallen. He has finished his letter. He folds it, stuffs it in his coat pocket, and heads off to the team meeting — eyes open, ready to do big things."
The specific Jack Trice part isn't really 30 for 30 grounds but the whole saga of Jack Trice and his legacy definitely is squarely in the realms of what 30 for 30 is about. It took 20 years of petitioning to get the stadium named after him and that didn't happen until 1997, and its the first and only stadium named for an african american athlete. I think it's the exact kind of thing ESPN would want.