{"id":4889,"date":"2016-12-19T09:43:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T17:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2019-05-01T13:31:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T20:31:38","slug":"30-for-30-year-of-the-scab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/?p=4889","title":{"rendered":"30 For 30: Year Of The Scab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"yos trailer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/205971899?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">For three weeks during the NFL strike of 1987, \u00a0\u201cNo-Names\u201d, \u201cHas-Beens\u201d, and \u201cNever-Would-Be\u2019s\u201d were plucked from obscurity for one last chance at football immortality.\u00a0\u00a0 For the first time in the history of professional sports in America, replacement players would take the field. For many, this was their final chance to live\u00a0the NFL dream.\u00a0 What they didn\u2019t know was that their golden ticket would become a scarlet letter.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Crossing the picket line to play in the NFL changed their lives, but not in the way they\u2019d expected or hoped.\u00a0For most of them, what was billed as the last shot at a dream, became the final blow to their careers.\u00a0 The moment they crossed the picket line, they were no longer athletes; they were scabs.\u00a0 They were worse than replaceable.\u00a0 They were disposable.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Today, the replacements are walking among us.\u00a0 They could be your neighbors, or bartenders, or your kid\u2019s football coaches \u2013\u00a0living out their lives in quiet dignity with\u00a0the peace that comes from knowing they took their shot.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2019, Year Of The Scab won the Real Screen Award for \u00a0&#8220;Best Sports Documentary&#8221;<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/DSCF1704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5806\" src=\"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/DSCF1704.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3882\" height=\"2912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/DSCF1704.jpg 3882w, https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/DSCF1704-88x66.jpg 88w, https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/DSCF1704-188x141.jpg 188w, https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/DSCF1704-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/DSCF1704-494x371.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3882px) 100vw, 3882px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For three weeks during the NFL strike of 1987, \u00a0\u201cNo-Names\u201d, \u201cHas-Beens\u201d, and \u201cNever-Would-Be\u2019s\u201d were plucked from obscurity for one last chance at football immortality.\u00a0\u00a0 For the first time in the history of professional sports in America, replacement players would take&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","category-year-of-the-scab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5817,"href":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions\/5817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ten100tv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}