Writing a documentary focused around archival footage is a
huge change of pace for me. Besides the sheer volume that I need to write, I
had to immerse myself in a subject I knew almost nothing about.
FOOTBALL… and the political and business scheming of the
NFL.
Even though I was essentially adapting a book (Glory For
Sale). I had to distill that information into a 90-page script. I needed to
learn enough about the subject that I could cut and trim useless information,
and highlight the most important information.
Beyond that, “Glory For Sale” was published in 1998. Meaning
I needed to bookend the documentary with information I researched on my own.
Some major players in the story had died between ’98 and 2017. History has a slightly different outlook on
the Browns-Ravens “debacle” than it did in 1998 when the wound was so raw.
I was able to distill the story into a few main characters,
and from there I just followed up on their activities post-1998. Covering “Glory For Sale” was an almost
herculean task, but I learned a lot in the process.
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