oral history on The Ringer<\/a> was less touchy about.<\/p>\nMary Frances Bonvini:\u00a0I don\u2019t remember exactly which executive it was. But I remember standing in the hallway with [Stuart] and the executive was telling him, \u201cI don\u2019t understand what you\u2019re doing and I don\u2019t understand what you\u2019re trying to express. I don\u2019t even really understand some of the\u00a0words\u00a0you\u2019re saying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2026<\/p>\n
John Skipper, former ESPN executive:\u00a0You\u2019ll find that everybody will tell you they were on the side of encouraging Stuart to do what he did. Half of \u2019em are lying.<\/p>\n
Susan Scott:\u00a0Norby [Williamson] wrote him up. He challenged his scripts. It was awful. People really don\u2019t know how awful it was. \u2026 Stuart was desperately frustrated.<\/p>\n
Norby Williamson, ESPN executive:\u00a0Stuart Scott is a top-five on-air talent in ESPN history and I was honored and grateful to call him a friend and colleague. \u2026 We challenged each other, encouraged each other, and learned from each other. Like millions of sports fans, I miss him.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, Scott persevered and rose to the highest peaks at ESPN, which we learn came at the cost of his personal life. Gaines chronicles his final chapters well as Scott tries to find peace, health, and balance in his final years.<\/p>\n
Scott\u2019s unique story and tragic passing are an authentic human story, one devoid of team or league PR meant to further bond fans with a team or sport, to juice ratings, or to sell tickets and merchandise. It\u2019s a throwback to 30 for 30\u2019s origins, when stories were king, storytelling was paramount, and people would seek out these installments and discuss them with importance and reliability.<\/p>\n
Like Stuart Scott himself, \u2018Boo-Yah\u2019, shines bright and makes us nostalgic for a particular time in sports media, which can serve as Scott\u2019s career at ESPN, or perhaps when 30 for 30 released more than three installments a year, many of which were as rich with storytelling and emotion as this installment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Director: Andre Gaines Length: 79 minutes without commercials (airing in a 90-minute window with commercials) Airs: Tuesday, December…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[113552,113553,2794,156,157,111,139,69,113554,113555],"class_list":["post-177353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-30-for-30","tag-boo-yah-a-portrait-of-stuart-scott","tag-documentaries","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports-documentaries","tag-stuart-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}