For the last week, I have suffered from the world’s worst eye twitch. No, everyone I encounter everyday, I’m not winking (or flirting) with you; my right eye just won’t stop spazzing. Don’t worry – I’ve found the cure.

I’ve been searching high and low for Small Potatoes: Who Killed The USFL?, the ESPN 30 by 30 documentary about the 1980s pro football league. Every time I attempted to DVR it, something (i.e. my husband’s settings to record every Star Trek series episode known to man) would sabotage it. Flipping through my OnDemand menu Monday night, I realized that it was available – and expires Wednesday! I dropped everything and immediately started watching – all of my Commencement work would have to wait.

Seeing that I’ve written two papers on the USFL (one as a freshman sports communications major, the other in my athletics management class during grad school), the information filmmaker Mike Tollins presents wasn’t necessarily new to me. That being said, I still ate it up. I loved it. The 1980s footage of Boston University’s Nickerson Field, where the Boston Breakers played was epic. The story of John Bassett, owner of the Tampa Bay Bandits, who showed an amazing devotion to his team despite suffering from brain tumors, was heartbreaking.

But of course, my love for this documentary boils down to the quarterbacks. To me, nothing will ever match the quarterbacks I grew up watching in the 80s and 90s, and Small Potatoes features the two that influenced my football fandom most: Steve Young and Jim Kelly. The discussion of their epic 1985 Week 1 duel, a come from behind 34-33 win for Kelly’s Houston Gamblers over Young’s Los Angeles Express, finally showed footage of something I have only been able to read about for years. The only word very tired and burnt out me can come up with to describe it is a “football-gasm.” The two quarterbacks that so influenced my youth talking about an epic passing duel between the two? Ahhhhh, I want to watch it again now.

I am now on the lookout for footage of that entire 1985 game, but until then, I’ve come across footage of the 1984 meeting between the two on YouTube. Even if you just watch part 1 of these three YouTube clips for the cheesy ESPN intro that kicks things off, you’ll be glad you did. And let me tell you, the combination of this footage plus Small Potatoes cured that pesky eye twitch. Nothing like football nostalgia to keep the doctor away.