The NFL has a documentary industrial complex
The Sports Gossip Show
The Athletic
4.8 • 738 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
There are a ton (well, at least three) of NFL documentaries out this fall, and Madeline and Charlotte watched them so you don’t have to. And if you watched them too, that’s great! It’s like a book club, but for docs!
Join SGS for another deep dive episode analyzing two Netflix series, “America’s Team: The Cowboy and His Gamblers” and “Quarterback,” plus HBO’s “Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Buffalo Bills.”
Come along for the conversation about what makes a documentary, what gets excluded, whether access wins out over truth these days, and what the gals learned after filling their brains with hours of NFL-based content.
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| 0:00.0 | Is that window okay open? |
| 0:02.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:04.4 | All right. |
| 0:04.7 | It's not always open. |
| 0:05.5 | Testing, testing. |
| 0:06.6 | Well, yeah, but it's open more today. |
| 0:09.4 | It's wide, it's wide open spaces. |
| 0:17.2 | All right. |
| 0:17.8 | Let's see how that sounds like. |
| 0:19.0 | Okay. |
| 0:19.8 | Jeez. Hi, Charlotte. |
| 0:28.9 | Hi, Madeline. |
| 0:29.7 | We're back. |
| 0:30.4 | We sure are. |
| 0:31.7 | Hello. |
| 0:32.2 | Happy Thursday, everybody. |
| 0:33.8 | Happy Thursday. |
| 0:35.1 | Happy Sports Gossip show, NFL Show NFL documentary review day. |
| 0:40.6 | Oh, what a beautiful day. |
| 0:42.5 | It is. |
| 0:43.2 | That's a mouthful, but it works. |
| 0:46.4 | Well, it wasn't the smoothest of sentences I could have said. |
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