Next to my couch, I have one of those workplace safety tally boards reading "Days Since the Last Docuseries About the Trials and Tribulations of Amateur Football." It's time to set the count back to "0." I mean, I don't actually have one of those workplace safety tally boards, but if I did, it would have reflected the time elapsed since the November premieres of HBO's The Cost of Winning and CBS All Access' Texas 6— a gap of almost exactly two months that ends with the arrival of Netflix's We Are: The Brooklyn Saints.
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