I enjoyed it far too much, though I am admittedly an easy mark. Play a '80s rap track over a tunnel brawl and I’m yours. My awareness and passion for college football coincided with Miami’s rise to prominence and the documentary was nostalgic for me. I had a hate/love/hate relationship with the Canes as they managed to simultaneously embody everything I desired and loathed in a football team.

The rise of the Canes was also a small part of a larger cultural influence, the first unfiltered crossover of hip-hop and inner-city black culture into mainstream America, at a scale unseen since Motown (before that Blues, Jazz). Unlike Motown, these influences weren’t mainstreamed, softened, and ma...

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