Silly little game
Subtitle: Run Ricky run ; The 16th man
By: ESPN Films
Contributors: Jansen, Lucas; Pamphilon, Sean; Toni, Royce; Bestall, Clifford; Freeman, Morgan; ESPN Films (Firm); ESPN Home Entertainment; Team Marketing (Firm); Artistic Cramp (Firm); Revelations Entertainment (Firm)
Series: 30 for 30 -- v. 01, DVD 05
Publisher: ESPN Home Entertainment; Distributed by Team Marketing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Bristol, Conn]; Owensboro, KY
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Rotisserie League Baseball (Game); Fantasy sports; Football players; Biography; Rugby football; Tournaments; Springboks (Rugby team); World Cup (Rugby football) (1995)
Other titles: Run Ricky run.; 16th man.; Sixteenth man.
Description: Silly little game: "In 1980, a group of writers and academics met at La Rotisserie Francaise in New York City and formed a baseball league of their own, the Rotisserie League. The game quickly grew in popularity, and today, fantasy sports is a multi-billion dollar industry with over 30 million participants."--Container.

Run Ricky run: "Take an intimate look at Heisman Trophy winner Ricky Williams, one of football's most fascinating athletes and misunderstood persons."--Container.

The 16th man: "The true story behind the Oscar-nominated film, Invictus. Following the fall of apartheid, Nelson Mandela used sport to achieve national unity, rallying all South Africans around the country's Springbok team during the 1995 Rugby World Championships."--Container.
Notes: Originally broadcast as individual episodes of the ESPN documentary series 30 for 30 in 2010.

Special features: Silly little game: two director's statements. Run Ricky run: two director's statements. The 16th man: two director's statements.

The 16th man: Narrator, Morgan Freeman.

Rated TV-PG.

DVD, NTSC, region 1 encoding, widescreen presentation.

Closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: Silly little game  -- produced by Ted Schillinger, Daniel Silver ; written and directed by Adam Kurland and Lucas Jansen -- (51 min.); title: Run Ricky run  -- an Artistic Cramp production ; producer, Erin Leyden ; co-directed, produced & edited by Royce Toni ; written, produced & directed by Sean Pamphilon -- (51 min.); title: The 16th man -- a Revelations Entertainment production in association with Shadow Pictures ; written by John Carlin ; producer, Mitch Wright ; produced & directed by Clifford Bestall-- (51 min.).