A comedy based on the 1987 professional football players' strike. Gene Hackman plays the coach of the team, Jack Warden is the owner, Brett Cullen is the All-Pro quarterback that goes on strike and Keanu Reeves is the "scab" who replaces the star QB.
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McGruff kicked a 65 yard field goal to win one of the games. The NFL record for longest field goal is 63 yards and has been done twice, so McGruff's kick would have set a league record.
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Goofs
Continuity:
In the first bar scene with Annabelle and Shane, she holds her beer mug, then the handle, then the mug again.
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Quotes
Jimmy McGinty:
I want you to know that if anything like this bar fight happens again, there'll be no place on the football team for any of you!... Do I make myself perfectly clear?
Washington Sentinels:
Yes coach. Jimmy McGinty:
And just for the record, I would've loved to have been there to see Martel get his ass kicked! See more »