As a tribute to America's unofficial past time, and hugest money maker, football, your friends at the Floating Red Couch (me: Ruben) will be hosting the
1st Annual Bronko Nagurski Memorial Football Flick Fest
Starting on Wednesday August 25th and running right up until September 3rd, the night before the Huskies open their season, the FRC will run, kick, and pass its way through 10 special football-related movies.
I encourage anyone interested to come along for the ride.
I am accepting and posting links to past reviews or reviews specifically written for the fest, or html if you want to be a guest contributor at the FRC. Or essays on football, football in movies, any football movie, any football player turned actor (there are a few if you smell what I'm cooking). Basically anything football-related, and not even movie related.
And if you're really ballsy, you'll devote these 10 nights to following along with the movies that I am watching.
Here's the schedule:
Wednesday 8/25 -- Pigskin Parade (1936, Judy Garland's film debut)
Thursday 8/26 -- We Are Marshall (2006)
Friday 8/27 -- Go Tigers! (2001, documentary)
Saturday 8/28 -- Any Given Sunday (1999)
Sunday 8/29 -- Everybody's All-America (1988)
Monday 8/30 -- Rudy (1993)
Tuesday 8/31 -- Little Giants (1994)
Wednesday 9/1 -- Knute Rockne All American (1940, starring The Gipper as ... well, The Gipper)
Thursday 9/2 -- Remember the Titans (2000)
Friday 9/3 -- The Longest Yard (1974, Burt Reynolds not Adam Sandler)
(read the summary here)
There are dozens of movies that I wish I could add, but did not have the space. If anyone would like to do a write up on any other football movie, let me know, email rubenr3[at]gmail[dot]com ...
Why Bronko Nagurski? Because he's a beefy meathead, and so is football.
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