:01:01
Just listen to that crowd.
- Reggie!
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Come on, Reggie! Hit another homerun!
- Coop, he's already hit two.
:01:14
It's a high fly ball to right...
:01:18
That's way back
:01:20
and it's... gone.
:01:24
Reggie Jackson hits
his 3rd home run of the game.
:01:38
Good catch, Coop!
- I can't believe it!
:01:41
I totally had it,
but my glasses slipped.
:01:44
Remer, someday I'm gonna become
a big sports star. - Whatever you say.
:01:49
You just watch me, dude.
:01:54
There was a time in America
when contests of athletic prowess
:01:58
were a metaphor for the nobility of man.
:02:01
Historic moments,
forged by the love of the game,
:02:04
celebrated the human potential
:02:07
to achieve excellence. But as time passed
and the country neared the millennium,
:02:12
something went awry.
:02:14
Manning rolls right. He's got Plough
at the ten... Touchdown,
:02:19
Dallas.
:02:21
The ideal of sportsmanship
:02:23
began to take a back seat
to excessive celebration.
:02:35
The athletes caring less about playing
than planning the vulgar grandstanding
:02:39
that inevitably followed even the most
pedestrian of accomplishments.
:02:45
The games became
subordinate to the quest for money.
:02:51
Stadiums and arenas became no more
:02:54
than giant billboards
:02:56
to promote commercial products.