The problem with football movies is every head coach has to be the single most positive thinking person ever in the history of the world, each one more of a caricature than the last. They're like little wind-up leprachauns with whistles, aren't they? "You can do anything you set your mind to!" "You will be a champion today!" over and over and over, smushed amidst on-the-fly parables. Just once I'd like to see a movie where the coach is the opposite, an absolute realist. Someone who is looking at the schedule in front of the team and says out loud "Georgia? We got Georgia next week? Oh FUUUUUUUCK..."
The only example of this being, of course, the basketball coach from "Teen Wolf" in maybe the single greatest tiny role in movie history. Not only does he eat food on the bench during the games, but actually tells his team while walking on the court to start a game "don't worry guys, theis will all be over with in an hour." Awesome!
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