This video is a recording from a local sports bar. My friends and I went out to go watch the final game of the March Madness basketball tournament. We were really expecting a bigger crowd at the bar considering a team near by made it to the finals. This can be seen in some of the shots away from out table which depicts how empty the bar was. The game ended up being incredibly close and one of the best finals the tournament has ever seen. The approximately 5 min long video captures the last 15 seconds or so of the game which included an amazingly lucky 3 point shot by UNC to tie the game and a perfectly executed 3 point buzzer beater to seal the deal by the champions Villanova. The video captures the incredulousness of the onlookers as we witnessed one of the most clutch ending of a basketball game ever. This historic moment is captured using only my phone and features many of my friends who were more or less oblivious to my filming or this project. When a game is a close as that it is not uncommon for individuals to pull out their phones and record reaction videos. However this one was rather mundane considering the emptiness of the bar which stands in contrast to the tremendous athletic feats displayed throughout the game and particularly at the end.
Eventhough this video is kind of “boring” (“you had to be there”), it exposes a type of masculinity that is centered around sports. My only real critique is that it might have been nice for us as the audience to understand who was making the video-that you are an insider and may have had observations about how your friends were watching the game.