When Gotham Chopra launched the Religion of Sports with co-founders Tom Brady and Michael Strahan in 2016, he set out to capture the similarities between sports events and religious ones, and even to understand sports as religion. Last year, he created the Facebook Watch documentary series Tom vs Time, which studied how age is impacting Brady’s NFL career. Now, Chopra is releasing a new series, Stephen vs The Game, focused on Golden State Warriors point guard Steph Curry.
Unanimous Media, a media firm founded by Curry and business partners Jeron Smith and Erick Peyton, was the executive producer of Stephen vs The Game. The company aims to produce content focused on family, faith, and sports.
Chopra recently talked to SportTechie about the new series, the connection between sports and religion, and the experience and process of making documentaries for Facebook Watch.