Bound For Glory
"Next On" Promo, ESPN. rt: 1.50
Promo Producer/Editor: Jeff Bartsch
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Bound For Glory was produced by Actual Reality Pictures for ESPN. Think Friday Night Lights meets hour-long, weekly doc series. It featured Hall of Famer Dick Butkus and Super Bowl Champion Ray Crockett coaching the Montour Spartans, a hard luck, football-rabid high school in Western Pennsylvania. The results were surprising - the team ended up regularly losing games by 3 points instead of 50. Amazing improvement for one season, but not good enough for those who care about nothing but the Big W. I wish the guys could get another season with Butkus and Crockett... kind of a tall order to expect Hoosiers in real life from normal teenage dudes.
In fact, the last game was such a bust I sat in my bay scratching my head at how to not give away the fact that the guys just get their clocks cleaned again. Gotta say though, this promo turned out okay - it could very well be the single most optimistic moment of the entire series. And the show was a blast too - I cut on 2 of the 8 episodes, did a bunch of next/previously-on promos, and worked with some very, very talented people in the process.