"Bringing The Heat" Coming Soon?

Last night, I had the joy of watching "The Bronx Is Burning" on ESPN, which details the 1977 New York Yankees World Series Championship team and delves into personalities such as Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin. Monday night was the pilot episode, but it seems pretty decent and I'll be back next week. However, it got me thinking....

If there was to be a mini series made about any Philly team, which team would be the most interesting? After thinking about it for only five minutes, I was easily able to come up with a candidate for each team:

1. The 1993 Phillies - This selection is a no brainer. The Phillies have been incredibly dull forever except for this one blip on the radar screen. I'd love to see a series that featured Macho Row (the Dude, Krukker, Dutch, Inky, Hollins, and the Wild Thing), as well as a young Schill. However, such a series would be laughable if it didn't discuss the steroid allegations and how this was the first team to use the Juice en masse.

2. The 1988-1992 Eagles - What team in this city has had a such a collection of personalities? You could spend half a season of episodes on Randall Cunningham and his wacky personality. There was also other mega-personalities such as Reggie White, the late Jerome Brown and Andre Waters, Seth Joyner, Clyde, B&E, Eric Allen, Mike Golic, Keith Jackson and Keith Byars. Is there any surprise that so many of these guys are now commentators? This series could also feature the interplay between Buddy Ryan and the owner we all loved to hate, Norman Braman. Plus, Mark Bowden's book Bringing The Heat is already in place as a template. Seriously, who wouldn't want to see the infamous fight between Wes Hopkin's wife and goomar captured on film?

3. The Broad Street Bullies - This team needs no introduction whatsoever. Bernie, Clarkie, Moose, Big Bird, the Hound, the Hammer, and the Watson Brothers. A wilder group has never been assembled. While such a series would be incredibly interesting to a Flyers nut like myself, I think we've seen it made already....it was called Slap Shot.

4. The 2001 Sixers - For my money, this series would solely revolve around three people, AI, Larry Brown and Pat Croce with an occasional comedic interlude from Dikembe Mutombo. Would anyone need to see any story lines revolving around George Lynch or Eric Snow? Didn't think so.

Since I loved the book Bringing the Heat so much, my vote goes to the 1988-1992 era Eagles. Although, I could be swayed by any of the three other teams. It just shows that even though we are short on titles as Philly phans, we are long on interesting, character laden teams. For that, we should consider ourselves lucky.