Let's revisit "Any Given Sunday"

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With the news of the Patriots once again doing some cheating ass shyt... this time trying to cheat a player out of money, using some made up bullshyt from a team doctor...


I think it's time to talk about the REALIST "NFL" type football movie ever made. It really got shytted on at the time, cause nobody believed this type of stuff was going on. The NFL wouldn't let them use their license because they thought it was too negative and too much fairy tale.. Come to find out.. EVERYTHING in this movie was absolutely true

Super Bowl winning coach being pushed out the door for the new OC.... check

Backup QB doing a little something while the vet kills himself to get his spot back.... check

Players getting drugged up together before games... check

NFL lying about concussions and almost costing people their lives... check

Owners doing underhanded deals to improve their personal bank accounts... check

Teammates fighting each other in house... check

Coaches made to play players they don't even like, cause they sell tickets.... check

1,000 a night hookers, way before instagram... check

Dudes taking all sorts of extra "shots" to keep them on the field.... check

Offensive lines not blocking for QBs they don't like.... check

add on....




but i don't think there's every been a realer movie about the PROS... and it was years before the internet and tv blew up with the 24/7 access... people were seeing this movie and thinking it was all fairytales

college sports always has something like this tho... i wish they'd do one about the NBA or something like it.. that was that in depth about the off the field shyt
 
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Graf devised over 100 plays for the cast to learn. He also filmed practices and then reviewed the footage with them. He was a coach in many ways: Throw the ball a second earlier or Come out of your break after ten yards. Making Graf’s job a bit easier was the fact that almost everyone on the field had been paid to play football at one time, either in the NFL, Arena League, World League or Canadian Football League; Lawrence Taylor, Terrell Owens, Irving Fryar and Ricky Watters all had roles.
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Like all NFL training camps, players were also cut. “It was a full-on combine with people trying out,” remembers Andrew Bryniarski, who plays the offensive lineman Madman. “Oliver told everyone that they didn’t have a job yet.” Lawrence Taylor and the late Michael Clarke Duncan both arrived in camp thinking they were cast as Shark Lavay—each actor had the character’s name above their lockers. Duncan was eventually sent home, probably when Stone realized that Lawrence Taylor should play the Lawrence Taylor-like linebacker. Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, LL Cool J, and James Woods filled out the lead roles. Finding an actor to play “Steamin’” Willie Beamen, the black QB who becomes a star in Cap Rooney’s absence, was a much tougher process.
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Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs was Stone’s original choice for the part. Combs arrived at training camp and even took reps under center, but he was soon dismissed. “Puffy couldn’t throw a football properly and he came on set with a big entourage. Al Pacino was there, the ultimate pro, and he was offended. So was Oliver,” Eric Hamburg says. “Oliver views the movie set like a battlefield, and he is the general. No one can compete with his authority on that battlefield.”
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Andrew Bryniarski, who was on set with Combs, is less diplomatic on Combs’s departure. “Puff Daddy threw like a girl so they put him on a plane.”
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The testosterone powder keg exploded while filming the Miami Sharks vs. Los Angeles Crusaders game. After his character fumbled, LL Cool J was supposed to argue with Jamie Foxx on the sideline. In the middle of the fight though, LL improvised, hitting Foxx. Afterwards, Foxx told LL to alert him before doing it again. When they shot the scene from another angle, LL again struck Foxx without warning. It quickly escalated to a brawl with punches flying and Pacino underneath the scrum. The crew scrambled to separate them. “Afterwards, Oliver yells at me, ‘What the fukk did you stop filming it for? Why did you guys get in there? You should have just kept fukking filming it,’” Totino says.
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The Unhinged Madness Behind The Making Of Any Given Sunday
 
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zayk35 said:
Seen it in the theater the weekend it dropped....it was great then and still relevant today....only thing that bothered me was the uniforms for some of the teams since the NFL wouldn't give permission to use real teams
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Same, I was dumb young but my friend's pops took all of us.

My favorite movie of all time.
 
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