I Love American Footballs MOVIES Thread

also, no. INVINCIBLE was ass.

also, yes. :( when did As Good As It Gets come out, 97? i didn't really get into football until high school, aside from watching some pats games and learning to hate drew bledsoe when i was a kid.

Has anybody seen this? I must.

OMG, MUST OWN!

i'm not sure if i can objectively evaluate his abilities, b/c he's one of those actors, like the dude who plays the guy who shoots cyrus in the warriors, whose mere presence in a movie ratchets up the rating a couple notches.

ever.

"But SPEAKING OF FOOTBALL, I saw The Longest Yard remake yesterday. Jim Rome & Chris Berman & Bosworth & Romo & Michael Irvin in one movie! Upstaged by Kevin Nash acting like a girl! It sure was something."

I mean, seriously:

- they BLOW UP Chris Rock!
- there's a dude that pulls McDonald's burgers from his crotch! (shades of THE KING)
- John Tutturro's bro gets ghey w/ Tracy Morgan!
- they almost have William Fitchner snipe Adam Sandler because he goes for the gameball after the convict's OMG comeback against the guards!

The Real Replacements

In The Replacements, Keanu Reeves plays a washed-up quarterback reluctant to return to football. But when the real-life Washington Redskins wanted out-of-work QB Ed Rubbert to cross a very imposing picket line during the 1987 NFL players' strike, the three-year starter at the University of Louisville didn't hesitate. "I didn't even have a job at the time," recalls Rubbert, who had been cut by the Redskins the previous year during the preseason. "I was just back home in New York working out, staying in shape in case I got another shot."

The '87 "Scabskins," as they became affectionately known, were a colorful collection of castoffs. Free safety Skip Lane left a $175,000-a-year job in real estate, running back Walter Holman was a security guard, and Rubbert's backup QB, Tony Robinson, was on a work furlough from prison (for trying to deliver cocaine).

Rubbert says he nearly quit after a couple of days at the Redskins training facility. "I was feeling bad. I'd met a lot of the Redskins, and I wasn't feeling right about being there. I didn't want to get in the league that way." But head coach Joe Gibbs quickly coaxed him into coming back. And Rubbert would go on to throw for 334 yards in his first game, including three touchdowns to Anthony Allen (above, right), whose 255 yards receiving that day is still a Redskins record.

The Scabskins went 3-0, including a win over a Cowboys team that featured several starters -- such as Tony Dorsett and Ed "Too Tall" Jones --Êwho had chosen to return to work. The three Scabskin wins wound up counting in the final standings for a Washington team that would win the championship, led by Doug Williams, the first African-American quarterback to play in the Super Bowl.

Meanwhile, Rubbert would never again play in a regular-season NFL game. But the 34-year-old PE teacher and part owner of a sports bar in New City, N.Y., has fond memories. He says he and his fellow replacement players were given tickets to the Super Bowl in San Diego and a winner's share of $27,000. Not to mention the gratitude of the men who'd been screaming at them from the picket lines. "I'd say half the guys called after the strike and thanked us," Rubbert says.

it really doesn't do a good job of establishing location, but i do think that they don't play up the dc thing b/c football and the story of the strike players doesn't really mesh w/ how a lot of people think of dc...which is unfortunate.

i mean, DC CAB, people!

the replacements kinda sucked but the football scenes in it are some of the best i've ever seen in a movie

leatherheads, otoh, really guzzles scrote - clooney's the only good thing about it. i think it might've been made even worse for me by seeing in the opening credits that it was written by rick reilly and i subsequently spent most of the rest of the movie thinking about how much i hate him

north dallas 40 is OG genius

semi-tough

actually, the football stuff in 'we are marshall' is pretty decent too

I wonder which ILXor hates Rick Reilly the most.

I hate him with the fire of a thousand suns. How many suns for you, canks?

omg

https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Nicolas-Cage-as-John-Madden-.jpg

https://deadline.com/2025/05/nicolas-cage-john-madden-christian-bale-al-davis-first-photo-1236396456

That showed up on my FB wall more than once today...John Candy was obviously meant to play John Madden. Didn't know about this thread: I nominate North Dallas Forty as the greatest sports film ever made.

tbf madden wasn't really candy-sized while he was coaching

in any case i am *entranced* by the mere idea of christian bale as al davis

noted raiders fan vegemitegrrl to thread

i am deg intrigued by this movie, will watch probably

Ditto on Bale, an actor I really admire. To see him disappear into his American Hustle character always amazes me.

it is all so weird to me!
i didnt even know this movie was a thing until someone tagged me on FB

i love this era of Davis & Madden & it’s especially my fave era of Al because he has so much weird energy & razzle dazzle

Bale is a great actor, I enjoy him but he fucking better stick the accent AND the gum chewing AND the laser deathray stare or this project is for naught

I dont even know about Cage as Madden. I love Cage & believe he is a great actor but i have as hard of a time seeing this as i do seeing Bale as Davis

but my bigger question is who is playing my guy Ken Stabler

that is a great question

who are our best young athletic left-handed beardo actors these days