"It was a safe place for camaraderie. But this, it turns out, was a very different style of team building than going down the pub. We had five rooms and whatever you liked you were going to mingle with your like, Irvin says. In that room you may be smoking weed, in this room they may be doing ecstasy, coke, whatever. There's a group of girls in each room and you just kind of bounced from room to room."
"This is a far grittier and, yes, better sports documentary than The Last Dance, the Michael Jordan hagiography that bewitched us during lockdown. In fact, I am not sure I have seen a more complete portrayal of the rise and fall of a sports dynasty, in all its glory and grubbiness. But also: can we have more of this, please?"
Michael Irvin recounts the "White House," a secret Cowboys mansion where players used multiple rooms to party, use drugs, and move between groups of women. Teammates admit to repeated arrests and frequent releases by police, while a team fixer describes efforts to clean up scandals. The film presents raw archival footage and candid testimonies that reveal a culture of excess alongside elite performance. The piece contrasts this portrayal with the Michael Jordan series The Last Dance and calls for similarly revealing documentaries about other major sports dynasties. The former coach Jimmy Johnson is shown enforcing brutal discipline.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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