After being turned down by all the fun and dysfunctional teams like the New York Jets and Detroit Lions, HBO finally found a team for their Hard Knocks series. The Miami Dolphins are the chosen team for this summer.
With the brilliance of NFL Films and narration of actor Liev Schreiber, HBO has been bringing their Hard Knocks series to football hungry fans for ten years. Dallas(twice), Baltimore, Kansas City, Cincinnati and New York Jets have all opened their training camp doors to the cameras. This season looked to be in doubt as team after team said "no." The Minnesota Vikings were one of those teams. I was pretty happy about that. While it would be interesting and fun to see an all access Vikings training camp. I just think that the cameras are too much of an intrusion. There's enough information and access out there. The action on the practice fields is well documented through a variety of sources. Local newspapers, camp attendees and podcasts provide an acceptable amount of information. There's enough there. Besides, I can handle a decent amount of mystery. Football is serious business and training camp is the beginning. The cameras and crew are simply a distraction to what really needs to take place. The one thing that I absolutely hate about the Hard Knocks series is seeing player cuts on camera. That act is difficult enough without splashing it across the screen for the world to see. It's not a public moment. The rest of the show is mostly entertaining and fun. The cuts simply suck.
Best of luck to the Miami Dolphins this summer. I'm just glad that it's not the Vikings.
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