What’s Aged the Best?
The football scenes, including the hurry-up, no-huddle spread offense
In the discussion (11)
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- The football scenes are shockingly good, and football is called the best sport to film.
- Asked why she is skeptical, offers a take that is a football thing and an indictment of how the movie handles football: the hurry-up, no-huddle spread offense has aged best, but the film implies Jonathan Moxon invents the spread, when his one passing reference to Mississippi Valley State putting up points covers Archie Cooley's late-80s spread innovation, so acting as if Lance and Mox invented it is ludicrous. — Mallory Rubin
- The film acts as if Mox is Gus Malzahn; a favorite scene is Paul Walker as the new coach diagramming the play while Mox jumps in with the idea and Billy Bob is baffled; the clip is played, five wide receivers, no tight ends, no huddles, and someone asks whether this is how the Patriots beat the Falcons.
- The question of why no assistant coach is coaching the game is raised and parked for nitpicks.
- The football is pre-concussion-era, helmet to helmet; a case is made that the concussions aged best, since Billy Bob is concussed in the first five minutes and forced to play by Jon Voight, Lance gets hurt, and the film teaches care with concussions, whereas the NFL took ten more years to acknowledge them and only by 2012, thirteen years later, barred players from returning in the same game; someone should have brought the commissioner a DVD.
- Objects that the argument sounds like saying concussions are not bad until the quarterback gets hurt. — Shea Serrano
- The late-90s soundtrack is the last nominee, a post-Lithium era with Foo Fighters, Fastball, Collective Soul, Third Eye Blind, Loudmouth and The Offspring.
- Asked what aged best, goes with the football scenes for the reasons just outlined. — Jason Concepcion
- Picks the spread offense: despite the problems with how it is introduced and who gets credit, going with five receivers and winning the game holds up. — Mallory Rubin
- Goes along with the same answer. — Shea Serrano
- Not a lot aged well, which is why everyone gives the same answer; football is better to film than basketball, which rarely works and cannot hide a bad dribbler, or baseball, which is too boring.