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Burt Reynolds, the electricity that turns
on the most outrageous team in football.

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The mean machine, supercharged and power
driven to the longest yard. Bert Reynolds,

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the quarterback who will tackle anything driver's
license. Look when we got in

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a minute your cor the superstars,
I feel so good for me. Suck

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the All American, the all Amazing, A joker of a jock who laughed

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all the way to prison. Paul
Crew a wrecking pro. Anybody who is

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Pro Football's most valuable players. Got
something special to do. It's standing up.

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Let's vote with a hero so special
he gets special treatment. They'll put

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you in the other rise and shine. It's room service. How do you

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like the battles? Super Star Shavid
points off of a football game in that's

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an American team. Get you twenty
four hours then hot box board. I

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quit My god, God, what
the hell is that? That's a member

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of the Warden football team. And
I run a football team? What football

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team? My football team? He
assembled the meanest, dirtiest team in history.

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Uh, we're getting up a football
game against the guards for guards.

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Yeah, I want to play.
I'm gonna play football. And taught them

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how to be meaner the one thing
that you're gonna have to remember is to

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protect your quarterback and Dirtier. I
think he broke it, Nick, I

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think he broke I told you before
this game is over. I want every

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prisoner in this institution to know what
I mean by bar and who controls it.

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The prison guards against the prisoners.
They guarded the game that broke all

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the rules, all the records,
all the bones, the most incredible ever

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played on the field and off.
You're going to lose the game, and

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I want a twenty one point spread. You've come too far together to stop.

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Now, let's do it. From
the producer of The Godfather, from

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the director of The Dirty Dozen,
from the first second to the last,

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the Mean Machine visa Burt Reynolds,
Eddie Albert in the Wildest yet the Longest

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Yard, I feel that it is
safe to say that American football has overtaken

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base ball as this country's national pastime. Starting this weekend, young men dreaming

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a future glory play high school football
on Friday nights. Those that are lucky

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venture on to play college football on
Saturdays. In the gifted few move on

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to playing professionally on Sundays. This
game requires dedication and focus. Each game

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is a battle. In some instances, the consequences mean more than wins and

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losses, as is the case with
this week's film. Released in nineteen seventy

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four, directed by the esteemed Robert
Aldridge and starring Burt Reynolds, The Longest

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Yard introduces us to disgraced former NFL
quarterback Paul Wrecking Crew played by Reynolds,

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a man who, due a drunken
stealing his girlfriend's car and leading police on

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a wild, reckless chase, is
sentenced to eighteen months in a prison in

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the football craze state of Florida,
where the guards play on a powerhouse semi

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protein in the Warden is willing to
do anything to win a national title.

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A great place to start would be
to introduce us to Crew, a man

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that, at the beginning of this
film leads on the surface a charmed existence.

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He is a kept man by his
beautiful, enriched girlfriend. Looks can

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be deceiving, though, as we
hear in the way, Crew speaks that

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he does not enjoy this life and
wants something more. Plus, we will

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hear the fight that leads to his
prison sentence for stealing her Maserati we baby

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con you know it would be good, Nor that son of a Where the

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hell do you think you're going?
Splitting? Splitting you split what I tell

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you to split? You all American
son of a lovely lovely? And when

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you walk out, stay out.
You're too expensive to be useless. That's

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exactly what you are. I never
looked at before. Everybody's bought you college

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is the pros, your gamblers.
Who do you think bought those beautiful little

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caps on your teeth? In the
clothes that you're wearing, and the bloody

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tan that you've got me. If
I ever neglected to thank you, Melissa,

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you husband, If I took everything
back and I ever gave you you

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stay away from my you'd be brass
naked. Don't you touch my keys?

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Oh? I think the love is
going on in our relationship, Adured,

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Don't you take my Maseratti, I
earned it. I told you not to

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touch my horror. I feel.
What may audiences love this film so much

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is that we become so emotionally vested
in the characters. When Crew eventually accepts

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the task of building a team of
inmates to compete in a game against the

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guards. These individuals from various walks
of life, races, and various crimes

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come together to become a team that
the audience actually begins to root for,

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like they're actually watching a football game. That's the magic of this film.

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The ruthless criminals even become likable and
lovable. That is in large part through

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the charm of Crew and the evil
ruthlessness of the Guards. Our next scene

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is the beginning of the inmates coming
together. Crew goes to various sendmates to

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recruit them for his team. And
just listen to the differences in each inmate,

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and you can tell how vastly different
each one is. I'd like to

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play some football. Shoo, yeah, would you like that? To cock

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guards? Would you like that?
Wouldn't you? Sonny report to the practice

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fail up tomorrow morning, nine o'clock. What's his name? Indian? That

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makes sense? Now, don't do
any ethnic jokes and in its Paul Crew,

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But Hi, I know you play
some football A little bit a good

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where Okahoma State? Olkhoma State?
You prison? Yeah? Well, first

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thing we gotta do is get your
transferred out of here and on the football

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steal how now, well we're coming. I'm pretty heavy. Who about four

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hundred parents? Pretty heavy? George
Sampson, Granada, mister Florida nineteen sixty

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four. Uh, ball crew,
you know Florida. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, they got tough cops here, small but tough. Uh. We're

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getting up a football game against the
Guards. Wanted if maybe you and some

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of your buddies here would like to
join in on the fund with the Guards.

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Uh huh sure, I'd like that. Sign him up. I'm way

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ahead of you. See around,
look forward to it, Sam Summer.

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In order for a sports film to
be great and have the viewer become emotionally

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vested, as I have spoken about
earlier, there needs to be a quote

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unquote heavy or someone that oppresses the
underdogs. In this film, it is

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the face of authority, Warden Rudolph
Hazen, played by Eddie Albert of green

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Acre's fame. In our final clip, we hear what makes the warden the

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epitome of evil in this film.
He blackmail's crew to throw the game and

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then goes back on his promise to
crew and tells the quarterback of the Guards,

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Captain Kannaur, to hurt the inmates
once they are up by twenty one

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one. Really, of note here
is the evil callousness that is beautifully conveyed

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by Albert along with his power hungry
egomaniahal attitude, Because what the hell do

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you think you're doing? Were you
want in the game, you got one.

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I never said anything about winning,
never said anything about losing it.

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I'll spell it out for you.
We've got hunger and custody. He's confessed

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a killing caretaker. He said,
you knew all about it, but you

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didn't notify Captain Knaar, and that
makes you and accents so ring. You're

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full of crap. Mister Krue.
You sent caretaker to that cell. You

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are an accessory to murder. You
can be looking at twenty years in contro.

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There's no way in the world you
can make that stick and corner.

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No which the crude. You could
be in this institution until you are old

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and gray or until you're dead,
whichever comes first. I can promise you

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that you're gonna lose the game,
and I want a twenty one point sprint.

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I can't do that, of course
you can't. You've done it before.

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If I give you the twenty one
points, you call the dogs the

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dogs. If you got the game
in the bag, you tell your guys

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to coast. I wanted my men. Ut you have my word. Once

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we get to twenty one points,
you know, there's only one thing I'm

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sorry about. What's that? Crewe
you're not out there with us knock at

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Heggs. I'm afraid I'm a little
too old for that. No, you

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never had the guests to begin with. You've just been guaranteed a twenty one

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point spread. What because of your
marvelous performance. I was forced to make

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a deal with mister crue Now the
second half, we can beat this thing.

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I'm not interested in discussing what you
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You lose, I told you with
mister cruel, who as I told

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him, it's uh No. When
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ahead, I want you to inflict
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as humanly possible, so you understand. Before this game is over, I

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want every prisoner in this institution to
know what I mean by power and who

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controls it. We understand each other. Listen. This film does do an

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excellent job of characterizing the game of
football. In my opinion, where it

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excels is it uses football as a
way for these inmates to gain some pride

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back, to stand up against their
violent oppressors and work with individuals they might

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have never felt they would work with, all for a chance, not just

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a gridiron glory, but for one
day to stand tall in victory for those

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that control them for days, weeks, months, years, and even lifetimes.

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As for the film itself, it
ranks highly on any meaningful top sports

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films list. It's quotes are heard
in football stadiums across the country by fans.

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It is as relatable today as it
was when it was released, And

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in two thousand and five a remake
was released that stars Adam Sandler that is

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just as good in its own right, and in my opinion, a rarity

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for remakes and just shows how truly
classic, endearing, and amazing this film

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truly is that it still stands the
test of time. I hope you join

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me next week when we begin our
month long tribute to the father of the

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zombie, George A. Romero with
his nineteen seventy two apocalyptic sci fi film

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The Crazies. For W M.
N. H. In Matt Connerton Unleash,

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this has been a classic film.
If you with Eric Filterer two beats

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come weeping like a black head due
to bile and nigging ale the thing again

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enough so it listen to the ship
I love and as the last reason for

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his trousers shooting full of f mister
Saturday night to special got a barrow,

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that's do They ain't good for nothing
for the mass. They just been drinking

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skin. They playing bot on a
loose to night and burnison, oh star

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thing or somethingbody But she didn't never
lie to big gym on Minster fights.

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I wouldn't tell you no lie bag
gym on the full this pis don't shot

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a spin rab between eyes, mister
side of the night and swells up.

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Got a barrel that's blue. They
ain't good for not what the mass bet

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on who side of the night,
but for the dollar to buy yoursel It

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would say all about I hang on
some made for killer that ain't above another

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as in intellectual treat for the skin
in mighty on the shoot, so said,

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why don't we don't blow people do
the bottom of see all summer fool

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going around here want to shoot into
you miss a Saturday night spec shot You

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got a barrel on the slue fool. You ain't good for nothing but bore

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the mass to beat in a What's
the Saturday Night Special? And I'd love

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to be on it? Then s