the sports guy + the wire

Bill Simmons (ESPN's The Sports Guy) gives a pretty lengthy spiel about his love for HBO's The Wire in a recent column, calling it things like "the most important television show of all-time."

The article starts off being a commentary on the mad-lib nature of modern sports movies, and the fact that people (like me) still find them appealing. I've commented on this before (though not in such eloquent fashion), and the corresponding fact that every new heart-tugging Disney sports movie can easily put out a trailer that makes me at least consider shelling out to see it in the theater.

The second part of the article is all about The Wire, and it ends with a decidedly un-Simmons-like ending.