Black & Yellow, Green & Yellow Superbowl Screening

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Sunday, February 6th, 6:30 pm

Jock Docs Presents:

Black & Yellow, Green & Yellow Superbowl Screening

100 Percent Free!!!

Watch the game and the commercials on the big 10 foot screen

upstairs in our main screening room or kick back and watch it

in our downstairs lounge. Drinks and snacks for sale or bring your

own drinks and snacks.

 

Jock Docs is a monthly series curated by Laura Coxson.

Baseball docs coming in March!

Quarterback Princess

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Wednesday, January 26th, 7:30pm

Curated by Laura Coxson

Jock Docs: Under the Influence of Dave Zirin

Quarterback Princess

Dir. Noel Black, 1983, 96 min.

 

Quarterback Princess is a fact-based drama about Tami Maida, a teenage girl from Canada who, in 1981 became a quarterback for the boys' junior varsity football team while living briefly in Oregon, and not only led the squad to a winning season but also was crowned homecoming princess, gave young TV veteran Helen Hunt her first starring role. Filmed on location in McMinnville, Oregon.

Q & A with Dave Zirin

Not Just a Game

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Tuesday, January 25th, 7:30pm

Jock Docs: Under of the Influence of Dave Zirin

Curated by Laura Coxson

Not Just a Game

Dir. Jeremy Earp, 2010, 62 min.

We've been told again and again that sports and politics don't mix, that games are just games and athletes should just "shut up and play." But according to Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin, this notion is just flat-out wrong. In Not Just a Game, the powerful new documentary based on his bestselling book The People's History of Sports in the United States, Zirin argues that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long been at the center of some of the major political debates and struggles of our time. In a fascinating tour of the good, the bad, and the ugly of American sports culture, Zirin first traces how American sports have glamorized militarism, racism, sexism, and homophobia, then excavates a largely forgotten history of rebel athletes who stood up to power and fought for social justice beyond the field of play. The result is as deeply moving as it is exhilarating: nothing less than an alternative history of political struggle in the United States as seen through the games its people have played.

Q&A with Dave Zirin

Sugar Hill Ale Reception to Follow