Once In A Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story Of The New York Cosmos

Paul Crowder and John Dower's funky, freewheeling documentary chronicles the rocky rise and precipitous fall of the Cosmos, a New York-based soccer team bankrolled by Warner Communications mogul Steve Ross at a time — the early 1970s — when the average American cared more about competitive shuffleboard than the world's favorite game. Sportswriters were at best indifferent, at worst, like the New York Daily News' renowned legendary Dick Young, actively hostile to the "foreign football." But there was a North American Soccer League, founded in 1968, which supported five teams, and there were a handful of fans, including legendary, Turkish-born Atlantic Records f...