Connor Stalions reveals what he wishes had been included in Netflix documentary

Connor Stalions wanted a little more in his Netflix documentary, depicting the Michigan sign stealing saga. In Untold: Sign Stealer, Stalions is the main subject of Michigan’s sign stealing controversy where he gives a behind the scenes look at what he did for years and eventually for the Wolverines.

But since it’s a broad audience, Stalions told On3’s JD PicKell that they had to simplify the explanations and stories compared to what he wanted to dive into. Don’t forget, not everyone on Netflix is a football, particularly a college football, diehard.

Not to mention there’s an international audience to consider. So, Stalions just rolled with it when filming the doc.

“I think the interesting thing is, Netflix’s audience is not just football diehards, so I think it was like the production company and the director trying to find that fine balance with Netflix,” Stalions told On3. “Well, he’s not gonna sit here and explain to you what a touchdown is, but I understand why you don’t want to be as in depth as we’re trying to make it, right? They produced a documentary, and then it had to be done by, I don’t remember, like, June, maybe because they needed, like, two months or something to translate it to all the different languages … Sometimes you watch some movie that you see in your suggested movies, and it’s, you can tell it’s in a different language, and it’s voiceover. So there’s probably some Connor Stallions in Chinese or something that is talking football.”

Connor Stalions: Stuff was left on cutting room floor

Stalions is a football nerd, make no mistake. It was part of the reason why he got so good decipher signals, legal or illegal aside. 

“So there’s a lot left out that, I mean, we could talk about … this for days straight, right,” Stalions said. “In the story, in the media and everything it was ever changing every single day. So, you know, there’s so many conspiracies and whatever that it takes time to to actually talk about real stuff. So, you just can’t cover that in an hour and a half. 

“So to a lot of people, it’s like ‘we knew 95% of this,’ but yeah, that’s if you, like, really paid attention, you know? So it is what it is. That’s why, on podcasts or whatever, you can get more in depth. And it’s not as well, we’re catering to everyone, as opposed to who who’s actually going to listen to people talking real football.”