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American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez Recap: Control the Narrative
The best episode so far plops Aaron in the confusing, high-stress process of the NFL draft.
Every February at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, scouts, managers, and coaches spend a whole week putting college football players through rigorous testing, assessing their physical and mental fortitude in preparation for the NFL Draft a couple months away. Training entails re-watching clips of interceptions and incomplete passes from his last three years of college football, taking accountability for his errors and becoming more “coachable.” It also means sitting through long interviews and answering ridiculous questions designed to rile him up, like “Are you in a gang?” and “Do you fuck cows?” Here, the script by Ryan Farley and Chelsey Lora seemingly borrows their real late uncle Robert Valentine’s name and turns him into a pedophile, including inventing an arrest for exposing himself on a school bus.
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