Just watched "North Dallas Forty" on DVD...Good old fun film..

[Zinfandel]

Nolte is very good, though Mac Davis and Nolte's girlfriend in the film, can't act if their life depended on it...still a good corporations manipulating the peasants film.

Not like today with...free agency, players unions and 20 million dollar signing bonuses.

But worth viewing again.

[cryofan]

1. GREAT film!

Peter Gent, who wrote the book, was a wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys back when Don Meredith was the QB, and of course Landry was the coach.

Here was one of the great lines from that film:

"When I call it a business, you call it a game, but I when I call it a game, you call it a business!"

[Blue_Tires]

2. still

the definitive movie about the business and politics of pro football...

Oliver Stone basically tried to update it for the modern era with "Any given Sunday" but it fell short

[Zinfandel]

3. Falling short is not "definitive" but I know what you mean...

a more contemporary football film...However "North Dallas Forty" has it's naivete and innocence and as I mentioned fun from a different era, that shows us how it evolved into the money is everything, lack of passion, game it is today.

[Enraged_Ape]

4. "TAKE OFF YOUR FUCKIN' HATS!"

"Sorry, Monsignor."

God, I love that movie. As funny today as it was when I first saw it.

[Spirochete]

5. The book

was darker than the movie. Peter Gent seems to have come out of pro football bitter and disillusioned with the whole thing. the book goes more in depth with the corporations screwing the peasants thing. His other book, The Franchise, is even darker.