alex lyons

Ill be honest, I started watching because I saw the scene with Nick Offerman driving with him. I thought it would be a story about growing up with a diverse background, being able to show the difficulties and the ability to overcome everything to become a massively wealthy, famous, and respected football player. I did not realize that it would become a way to paint everyone else as monsters and animals. If you watch through the videos he has a friend who constantly has his back, stands up for him, yet his best friend is pushed aside to propagate more hatred and intolerance. When they are playing football in the conference room and hes being questioned about what room hes in. Instead of showing more of the joking and having fun, playing at the pool with his friends, or even the baseball games themselves. He focuses on the negativity and the hatred to paint everything as damning as possible. He was the Freshman QB, he went 7-2 and won the conference championship, instead of showing more football scenes of his victories and triumphs, it shows 30 seconds of football and 10 minutes of him not getting the JV Spot. Watching this show seems to focus on growing the racial divide, instead of the success that he became, he focuses on the negativity that held him down and that negativity was always racially biased. Everything hes done both personally and professionally both on and off the field is not anything to be upset about. All famous people use their platforms to try and create the change they want to see, and while the movement itself has shifted, the actions he took were for the right reason and should be respected as such. As much as I would like to say that this show is amazing, it seems to be focused on continuing the fight between races, the negativity that held him back, and the hatred that he held onto for much of his young adult life. If he had included the highlights, the vindications that he got over the years when he proved they were wrong for judging him over something as petty and inconsequential as skin tone, and the personal growth which turned him into the super star he is today... it would have been a much better show.