All the Right Moves

Is All the Right Moves by far the best high school football flick there is? Gray and dreary, they don't win the big game, no rah-rah bullshit. Always found it pitch perfect. Christ, is there even a close second? Varsity Blues is beyond absurd. Wildcats doesn't count (comedy + Coach Goldie = not a real football flick.) And as much as I love Remember the Titans featuring my boyfriend Denzel, it's way too hokey/Disney. All the Right Moves. Schliiiiiiiice.


Also: a reminder of how bad-ass Western PA used to be, before it became federal law that every hs football stud had to come from Florida.

I don't know why it's on right now; usually they show it on soppy early Sunday afternoons in the fall. But I'm glad it is.

UPDATE: I just realized that if Shadow goes to West Virginia, like they announce at the party near the end, and he was red-shirted his freshman year, he woulda been on the 1988 team that lost in the National Championship game to Michael Stonebreaker and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Awesome.