More makes our championships all the merrier for all

The year before Oliver Stone blinded us – and one linebacker in particular – with Any Given Sunday, Pat Comer hit us with A Year ’Til Sunday, one of the first and still finest GAA documentaries ever made. Both titles were a nod to the competitive reality of the respective environments that the Miami Sharks and Galway footballers operated in.

The fluctuating fortunes of Coach Tony D’Amato’s charges reaffirmed the wisdom of the old NFL commissioner Bert Bell who coined the term that on any given Sunday, any team in the league could beat or be beaten by any other team; even now, 20 years after Stone’s tour de force and the Sharks’ neighbours, the Dolphins, back in 1972, remain the only team to have ever gone the whole season unbeaten.