Calvin Jones, one of several ex-teammates to be interviewed, shares a detail about a phone call he had with Phillips that you may not know. It’s one of several moments in “Running For His Life” that feels fresh even if Phillips and the 1995 Husker season is burned into your memory.

The resulting fallout of Phillips’ assault — Tom Osborne’s decision to reinstate Phillips to the team, and the national and local media’s subsequent spotlight and critique of Osborne and NU’s program — is here, too.

“We were kind of labeled a bunch of thugs,” Osborne says in the documentary. “But the strange thing was, the more negative press we got and the more people beat on our head, the closer the team got.”

When Phillips declared for the pros after his junior season and moves on to the NFL, he had a kind of defender in Rams’ coach Dick Vermeil. Vermeil first met Phillips as he was being released from jail, eventually cuts him as a tough-love move to confront Phillips’ struggles with alcohol, then stumps for Phillips with other NFL coaches.

Phillips has a few bright flashes in his pro career — an MVP season in NFL Europe with the Barcelona Dragons is one, as is one great year in the CFL — but he’s ultimately out of football by 2003.