The ESPN series 30 for 30 is best known for its consistently excellent documentaries on sports. The original idea was to mark the network’s 30th anniversary in 2009 by commissioning 30 documentaries on slightly offbeat topics from independent film makers not necessarily known for their sports-related work. The series was so successful that ESPN decided to keep it going. Approaching its seven-year mark, the series is two-thirds of the way into its third 30-episode “volume,” with spinoff series on soccer and Title IX’s effects on women’s sports. You can get a recently released boxed set called ESPN Films 30 for 30: Five-Year Anniversary Collection that contains 50 of the first half-decade’s main 30 for 30 films, 11 related ESPN Films, all of the “Nine for IX” and “Soccer Stories” episodes, and 20 shorts. It adds up to 114 hours worth of programming on either 20 blu ray discs or 32 DVDs. Who knew in October 2009, when it first aired, that the third 30 for 30 ever made would become relevent in 2016? Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL? chronicles
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