“Nimrod Nation” Tonight on Sundance Channel
Apparently a “nimrod” is a hunter. I always just thought a “nimrod” was an idiot. Shows how much I know.
Tonight on the Sundance Channel a new eight-part documentary series is premiering entitled Nimrod Nation (9:00pm with a second episode at 9:30). Produced by Brett Morgan (”The Kid Stays In the Picture”) the series follows the small, rural town of Watersmeet, Michigan, as the locals root on their beloved high school basketball team, the Nimrods. Riding the Friday Night Lights train of sympathetic small town life and allegiances, Nimrod Nation trades in pads and helmets for hard courts and the round ball, and substitutes the Texas heat for Upper Peninsula cold and snow. The personalities interestingly enough, are much the same, though only in the way all of us, wherever we may live, work and have fun are technically the same. More after the jump…
