Following Monday’s Home Run Derby, there was more baseball on the tube — in the type of Derek Jeter’s brand-new documentary “The Captain.”
In lotsof individuals’s minds, Michael Jordan’s “The Last Dance” documentary is the gold requirement for sports documentaries, however Jeter’s newest offering has stimulated contrasts inbetween the Captain and His Airness.
But can you truly compare the 2 legends beyond their documentaries, thinkingabout they played 2 significantly various sports and had different cultural effects? Colin Cowherd dug into the subject Monday on “The Herd.”
“Derek Jeter was the person in that arena [Yankee Stadium] for a long time,” Cowherd stated. “When the documentary came on [Monday] night, individuals were stating, ‘He’s overrated! It’s not the Michael Jordan documentary!’ Can we stop? First of all, Michael Jordan is various. In sports, we have stars, superstars, and then we have Jordan. He’s like Ali — he’s in a various galaxy. You can’t compare him to anybody.
“Derek Jeter had a Gatorade industrial. M.J., they construct a entire business around him. So did Nike, and so did Hanes. So did McDonald’s.”
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Colin Cowherd looks back at Derek Jeter and Michael Jordan’s effects, then describes why fans oughtto ‘stop comparing our sports stars.’
Cowherd continued to not compare the 2 by pointing out the distinctions in their profession trajectories.
“Between the retirements, the dysfunction in the company, his daddy getting killed, and he played for the Dream Team, at one point, we all rooted for Michael Jordan’s group. Derek Jeter was a Yankee — 90 percent of baseball fans outdoors of New York hate the Yankees.
“There is no comparing anyperson, and I would state consistingof LeBron [James] and Tom Brady to Michael Jordan.”
Lastly, Cowherd vented his displeasure of the overrated-slash-underrated disputes.
“Derek Jeter is properly ranked, and so is practically everyone else. Nobody believes Tom Cruise is the finest star. And no sensible individual would reject that he’s an outright rock star motionpicture star. That’s what Derek Jeter is. He was the coolest baseball gamer in a sport that doesn’t like glamour and doesn’t raise stars.”
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