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The Replacements

What’s Aged the Best?

Reeves; cheerleaders; labor perspective; announcers; football credibility

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  • Keanu Reeves is an aged-best choice.
  • The sex-worker cheerleaders are praised for comic energy and television-friendly spice, compared with turn-of-the-century media culture.
  • Changed sports-labor discussions are an aged-best theme. The hosts recall the lost promise of the 1994 baseball season, the 1999 NBA lockout, and a canceled hockey season as shifts in their relationship to sports.
  • Keith David as union leader is praised, with speculation that his brief role may have lost scenes in editing.
  • Orlando Jones’s football-as-gun celebration is praised and tentatively linked to The Last Boy Scout.
  • The blue Washington hats are praised as desirable merchandise.
  • Reeves reportedly took less money to enable Hackman's casting, prompting praise for his public reputation and jokes hoping he never disappoints fans; hypothetical misconduct is not a factual allegation.
  • The never-was insult aimed at Falco is praised for cutting deeply.
  • Madden and Summerall now provide nostalgic pleasure and football credibility, compared with Vin Scully in For Love of the Game; what once seemed like a cash-in has aged well.
  • The kicker smoking during games is praised for commitment to the gag.
  • Hoosiers jokes during Hackman’s coaching scenes are enjoyed.
  • The cheerleader paired with the deaf player is an aged-best choice.
  • Shane Footsteps Falco is praised as a nickname, interpreted through fear of sacks and compared with Jim Everett.
  • Reeves's athletic build and throwing motion make him credible at quarterback, with Scott Mitchell and Tua comparisons. A bad throwing clip from an unspecified Amanda Bynes movie is contrasted without identifying its actor.
  • Madden and Summerall's commentary over Shane approaching Annabelle, then blending into game coverage with Every Breath You Take, is praised as inventive. A supposed explicit deleted scene is clearly a joke.