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DeNiro to play Vince Lombardi, now please call it, THE BIG CHEESE, giggle...
Hey folks, Harry here and I want to wear my Cheesehead hat to the premiere of this one. It seems that Al Capone aka Robert DeNiro is set to play Vince Lombardi - perhaps the most legendary and beloved coach, this side of Tom Landry... ahem, in NFL history... so much so, when you win the SUPER BOWL, you get to take a trophy named after him home.
This is one of those ESPN Films - but the feature is being written by Eric Roth, so expect Vince to be a fast running infant/man whose story will be told in reverse. Apparently the film will cover the period in which Vince built the GREEN BAY PACKERS into legends. Expect this to hit theaters sometime in the midst of the playoffs in 2012.
I don't know about you, but I love Football flicks, how about you?
Personally, my fave is NORTH DALLAS FORTY, what's yours?
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favorite football movie....Debbie does Dallas :)
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Oh ,you mean gridiron?
I'd love to know why you Shermans call it football when 90% of the time you use your hands. -
...I really liked Wildcats when I was a kid. Maybe I just had a boner for Goldie. I really wanted to like Any Given Sunday more. Somehow, The Replacements is the best football flick I can think of right now.
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It's one of the greatest stories in sports history. Suprised it hasn't been made yet.
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Rudy has to be the best of the best. That pudgy bastard makes me sniffle like a bitch every time.
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But as soon as you see the word "giggle" in the headline, you just know it's a Harry post. Nothing more attractive then picturing an overweight nerd giggling like a schoolgirl.
But off topic, seriously, Harry takes a lot of abuse here, and I do understand where some of it comes from. But I will say, I admire the fact that he appreciates so much cinema, compared the masses here who are so quick to proclaim everything shit...not excluding me. -
Still my favorite pigskin flick.
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...but I also love the "terror in the stadium" thrillers, Black Sunday and Two Minute Warning. And with the news about Corey Haim, gotta mention Lucas.
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news!! If anyone gets a wild hair pick up When Pride Still Mattered. Great book on Lombardi!!
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....then ed harris HAS to play tom landry. harris or nick nolte would work too i guess. and speaking of nolte, yes, football movies never got any better than north dallas forty.
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...love DeNiro, so I'm torn. Could be good, but I'm not holding my breath.
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There is no "perhaps" about it. Unless you live in Texas, I suppose. I'm not sure Landry's in that discussion, although in part through no fault of his own. He was great, but the Cowboys blow, Jerry Jones undercut his legacy, and the allowance of a bunch of druggies and undisciplined types on his team, and him casting a blind eye on it all, not to mention that whole Ice Bowl thing, keeps him out of "Most Legendary" coach discussions.I DO like Landry a lot, but I think Lombardi was historically more legendary and beloved for a lot of reasons, some of which had to do with Jerry Jones and the later years of Landry's coaching career (and obviously Vince Lombardi's swan song with the Packers and having arguably the premier sports award named after him). As an aside, I do loathe Jerry Jones, in part for screwing over Landry, in part for just being a douche.-Cheers
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Why? They're the best team in sports! ;)
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I'm still SHOCKED AICN sucked Rother's cock for that horrific Benny Button movie. He repeated virtually everything in his Gump script.
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You know it's gonna be a Harry article when he puts dumb shit like that in the title.
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I want to see snot bubbles!
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Reynolds not Sandler..duh.
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You're damn right.
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The guy hired Lombardi and Landry in the 50's to run the NY Giants offense and defense, respectively.
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I seem to remember a 70s tv movie about the coach.
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Yeah, I had to be that guy. Now, discuss...
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Kathy Ireland shower scene FTW
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giggle hee hee
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And I've been a LOYAL 49ers fan since the early eighties (I live in the Bay Area). I believe we have more titles, so we're the best. : ) Heh. I'm cool with liking whatever sports team(s) you prefer. We wouldn't have anything to argue about (sports wise) if we all liked the same team. But I get really annoyed by people who root for teams that aren't geographically their own. Raiders, Steelers, Packers, Cowboys - don't like any of 'em, mostly for that reason.
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Red and Gold, born and raised! Samurai Mike has righted the ship and we are off and into the playoffs in 2010! I just hope we make it past the wild card round....
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...what about you?
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...yes! I do believe we will once again be playoff bound. I'm not sure we've got our quarterback issues fixed just yet. But Big Mike is a defensive coach, anyway. If we can hold other teams to a couple touchdowns we should be OK.
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Really it's a football movie, no?
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You betcha. Wisconsin born and bred! Go Pack Go!
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...into the Redskins. He continued to be a productive coach.
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Oh, you mean that American football that resembles rugby? Not the REAL football.
"Best of Times" with Kurt Russell and Robin Williams. -
Scott Bakula was aces in that.
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About damn time Hollywood took notice of how amazing they are. Err... were. And will be. Whatever, I'm for this.
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it'll be released in December; for awards consideration. As far as fav sports movie? The Natural. Say, Harry, what's 'the expendables' going to be rated.
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thats the extent of my vince lombardi knowledge. and i bet that line will be in the movie.
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"When Saturday Comes".
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Quite simply, the Lombardi trophy should be the George Halas trophy. The simple fact is that there would be no Packers and no NFL if it weren't for George Halas and the Chicago Bears. Who loaned money to Curly Lambeau to keep the Packers afloat in the early days? That's right, George Halas.
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Where's my Paul Brown flick??? HERE WE GO BROWNIES!!!!!
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"Meet the Packers."
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"Brian's Song" is the greatest football movie period. End of discussion.
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As a die hard football fan, I feel like 'Friday Night Lights' feels like the most accurate football movie.
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More coffee please . . .
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best football movie
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a true lowpoint in Oliver Stone's career. What a shitfest.
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Didn't he dump the Pack for the Redskins? Seems kind of Belichek-ish to me.
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I keep the ladies...
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A Civil War general? A kid with a dog and a time machine?
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DeNiro got a project that wasn't a watered down Heat wannabe or some lame-ass PG-13 "thriller." I'm no Packers fan (Texas born and raised, Landry all the way!) but Lombardi is a legend, and I LOVE that era of football. Looking forward to this!
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Lombardi decided to quit coaching after Super Bowl II, but stayed as the GM. After a year, he got the itch to coach again but because the Packers were already committed to Phil Bengtson, he left and went to the Redskins briefly before he died.
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...between him and Jim Ringo in contract negotiations. Packer fans know what I'm talking about.
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because I'm an Eagles fan.
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Those are my favorites. But the orginal Longest Yard not the remake. Honorable mention goes out to The Program! I loved that movie.
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I doubt I'd go to the theaters I don't care much for the Packers. In fact they make me sick. I can only tolerate them now, since Overated Brett Farve is gone.
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because they are about individuals with football as a backdrop. Others fail because they try too hard to authenticate a team or coach/player dynamic.
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How can you go wrong with a nice shot of Goldie's ta tas? I love M.Emmett Walsh in that movie because I know lawyers like his character that use football analogies for everything.
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Don't get a lot of British slang down here in Texas. And it sounds like Lombardi had a reason for leaving Green Bay, but as a guy who was permanently scarred by the Ice Bowl, I won't be watching any Lombardi biopics.
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Al Bundy vs. Dark Helmet 4 life.
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and my philadelphia eagles were the first and only team to hand Mr. Lombardi a postseason loss, in the 1960 NFL title game. so, suck it all around. (this is the part where fans of any other NFC East team point out how the Eagles have yet to win a super bowl. don't worry, i know.)
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