The Importance of Knowing the Game

"I gave him so much credit for that. Because I thought he was doomed," says Mike Downey of Michael Jordan as a ball player. "Because he was Michael Jordan, it put a spotlight on how hard it is what you guys do." In the NBA, they can just keep getting the ball to him in the pit and get 25 or 30 shots in one game. The quarterback's going to take every snap,. He might throw 40 or 45 passes, handing it off 44-to-45 times each day. And so I think I was looking to somehow underscore how difficult that was for your game ... It was about 1-5th of a second when we tried to start a