Dan2330 Posted August 25, 2006 Report Posted August 25, 2006 I believe the game was from 1978 last game of the season and Bengals beat Eagles 31-0. This was the opening of the movie as the crowd at Veteran's Stadium booed the Eagles off the field. Kind of cool to see the opening featuring the Bengals (old uniforms and all).Overall film was pretty good (3 stars). Pumped for the football season for sure now after seeing the movie! Quote
GROIIIDayton Posted August 25, 2006 Report Posted August 25, 2006 Thanks for the review. I think my girl and I are going to go see that tonight. Where are you from I thought it came out today?? Anybody else have any comments on it if you have seen it? Quote
Dan2330 Posted August 25, 2006 Author Report Posted August 25, 2006 It does come out Friday (today)- I work in the movie theater industry so I get a chance to see films before national release dates. Quote
GROIIIDayton Posted August 25, 2006 Report Posted August 25, 2006 thatnks again for the review I can't wait to see it and I very rarely go to the theater to see a movie. Quote
ckj414 Posted August 25, 2006 Report Posted August 25, 2006 I believe the game was from 1978 last game of the season and Bengals beat Eagles 31-0. This was the opening of the movie as the crowd at Veteran's Stadium booed the Eagles off the field. Kind of cool to see the opening featuring the Bengals (old uniforms and all).Overall film was pretty good (3 stars). Pumped for the football season for sure now after seeing the movie!They open the movie with the last game of Vince Papale's career?Living in the Philly market for many years, I'd heard this guy's story years back. The joke was that this guy sucked so bad, the Eagles weren't going to win squat until he was cut. And that turned out to be true.I'm thinking there's got to be some major rewriting of history to squeeze a movie out of this guy's story... Quote
GROIIIDayton Posted August 25, 2006 Report Posted August 25, 2006 Everyone and philly hates on there teams unless they winn the big one. The question is did you get a different story? Mark Walburg is on Rome talking about the movie. Quote
ckj414 Posted August 25, 2006 Report Posted August 25, 2006 Everyone and philly hates on there teams unless they winn the big one. The question is did you get a different story? Mark Walburg is on Rome talking about the movie.Well I'm a Giants fan, so I've got extra reason to hate the Eagles. Living in the Philly market for a while didn't do anything to help it either.The Eagles in that time period had a lot of difficulties. Hopefully I've got my story right since I'm getting this all 2nd hand, it was before my time, but I recall something about the team ownership having gambling debts, and Dick Vermeil barely having the resources to field a full team. I think thats how Papale found himself in the NFL - as a replacement player more or less. It was a fun story at the time, a regular guy in the NFL, but he also became a symbol, through no fault of his own, for what was wrong with the team in those days.The fact that Vermeil got that team to the Super Bowl at all, a losing effort in 1980 (two years after Papale's career ended - I hope they don't queer it up and put him on the Super Bowl team), is considered an incredible acheivement. He did it with subpar talent, and was burned out shortly thereafter. Quote
bengal4life Posted August 25, 2006 Report Posted August 25, 2006 Everyone and philly hates on there teams unless they winn the big one. The question is did you get a different story? Mark Walburg is on Rome talking about the movie.Well I'm a Giants fan, so I've got extra reason to hate the Eagles. Living in the Philly market for a while didn't do anything to help it either.The Eagles in that time period had a lot of difficulties. Hopefully I've got my story right since I'm getting this all 2nd hand, it was before my time, but I recall something about the team ownership having gambling debts, and Dick Vermeil barely having the resources to field a full team. I think thats how Papale found himself in the NFL - as a replacement player more or less. It was a fun story at the time, a regular guy in the NFL, but he also became a symbol, through no fault of his own, for what was wrong with the team in those days.The fact that Vermeil got that team to the Super Bowl at all, a losing effort in 1980 (two years after Papale's career ended - I hope they don't queer it up and put him on the Super Bowl team), is considered an incredible acheivement. He did it with subpar talent, and was burned out shortly thereafter.I'm not real sure but I think Papale was in his thirties when he tried out so his career wouldn't have lasted real long anyways. I watched a documentary about it a couple of years ago and thought it was very inspiring. Quote
jditty47 Posted August 25, 2006 Report Posted August 25, 2006 ya its a cool story....rudyish i must say. no he wasnt a great player, but how he made the roster and stayed on it was amazing enough. Quote
Dan2330 Posted August 25, 2006 Author Report Posted August 25, 2006 The story begins at the end of the 78 season, Vermill taking over as Coach and holding 'open tryouts' before camp. Not to play role of spoiler but they show some actual clips at the end of the movie including Super Bowl clips by not of any of Vince at the SB Quote
ArmyBengal Posted August 26, 2006 Report Posted August 26, 2006 This looks like it's headed for the "general discussion" forum, but I'll give it some more time...WHODEY !!! Quote
vicsportsaddict Posted August 28, 2006 Report Posted August 28, 2006 I'm not real sure but I think Papale was in his thirties when he tried out so his career wouldn't have lasted real long anyways. I watched a documentary about it a couple of years ago and thought it was very inspiring. Quote
ckj414 Posted August 28, 2006 Report Posted August 28, 2006 So anybody see it yet? I might be able to stomach two hours of E-A-G-L-E-S for a quality football flick... Quote
BigBenBlows Posted August 28, 2006 Report Posted August 28, 2006 My wife and I checked it out yesterday. I thought it was a really good movie. Even though it was the Eagles I couldn't help but feel myself rooting for them. If you are a real fan of football(as I'm sure every one here is) you really should see it. Quote
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