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The Replacements: What Do Strip Clubs and Football Have In Common? Heart.
There's something uniquely satisfying about watching a ragtag group of misfits come together and triumph against impossible odds. In our latest episode, we dive into the 2000 sports comedy "The Replacements," where Keanu Reeves plays Shane Falco, a washed-up quarterback scrubbing barnacles off boats who gets an unexpected second chance at football glory.
Behind every great underdog story is an eccentric cast of characters, and this film delivers in spades. From Jon Favreau's unhinged SWAT officer with anger management issues to Orlando Jones' lightning-fast receiver with "hands of stone," these replacement players represent the beautiful chaos that ensues when professional athletes go on strike. We break down how Gene Hackman's veteran coach Jimmy McGinty somehow transforms this bizarre collection of has-beens and never-weres into a functioning football team—with a little help from replacement cheerleaders recruited from the local strip club.
The movie may not have broken box office records upon release, but it's packed with memorable moments that have given it staying power. We dissect the infamous jail cell scene where the entire team bonds through an impromptu performance of "I Will Survive," the Welsh kicker who smokes on the field while trash-talking opponents, and the sumo wrestler who carries multiple defenders into the end zone. Plus, we connect the film to its loose inspiration: the 1987 NFL strike where real-life replacement players for the Washington Redskins won all their games yet weren't awarded Super Bowl rings until decades later.
Our episode culminates in an intense trivia showdown testing our hosts' knowledge of the film, with the loser sentenced to watch the critically-panned Borderlands movie as punishment. Listen to find out who proves they have the most heart—because as Coach McGinty would say, that's what separates winners from losers.
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Speaker 3:I'm the greatest thing that happened to this show. We're talking about the Replacements, the 2000 sports comedy film directed by Howard Deutsch, starring Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Orlando Jones, Brooke Langton Rice Iffins or Iffins, I don't know how you say his name, it's Welsh Jon Favreau and Jack Warden. In his last film appearance before his death in 2006.
Speaker 2:And Orlando Jones.
Speaker 3:I said Orlando Jones, oh, you did. Yeah, if you were listening.
Speaker 2:I'm not one of those great listening patrons and speaking.
Speaker 3:This is a very 50-50 movie. Budget was $50 million. The box office was $50.1 million.
Speaker 1:Oh wow. Well, they needed to make $75 to break even. So they did not. Well, they needed to make $75 to break even, so they did not Well.
Speaker 2:they made another $3.99 when I rented it. Yeah.
Speaker 3:They're doing well. It came out August 11th in 2000.
Speaker 1:I don't remember what the rule is Like once it's out of theaters. Well, it depends on what decade it comes out. But I think like a movie makes and appreciates like X amount of million dollars based off of its original box office every year, and then like what?
Speaker 3:rentals and.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:When they play it on.
Speaker 1:TV. I'm sure the Replacements has made its money back and then some by now, but still.
Speaker 3:Let's see. It made $11 million in its opening weekend, behind Space Cowboys and Hollow man.
Speaker 1:Space Cowboys was the best out of all of them.
Speaker 3:Out of those two. Yes, I would agree Space Cowboys. We should have just did that movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Roger Ebert gave this film two out of four stars.
Speaker 1:I was going to say two out of four thumbs.
Speaker 3:What Huh Writing? The film was slap-happy entertainment painted in broad strokes two coats thick.
Speaker 2:I like how the synopsis is one sentence During a pro football strike, the owners hire substitute players.
Speaker 3:That's really like the gist of it, because it's based on the 1987 NFL season. It just says football.
Speaker 3:Well it's very loosely based on a strike season Football. So in 1987, for those of you who don't know the NFL did have a. It just says football. Well, it's very loosely based on a strike season Football. So in 1987, for those of you who don't know, the NFL did have a player strike and I think there was three games with the scab players is what they called them and the Washington Redskins scab players. They were the only team that won all three of their replacement games. Wow.
Speaker 2:Which meant they didn't know who they were.
Speaker 3:It wasn't until a couple of years ago. They gave those players their Super Bowl rings because the Redskins won the Super Bowl that year. Wow, and like they were. Like you know, we won three games out of a strike shortened season. I think it was only an eight-game season and it's like that's. They won a third or almost half the games for the team as replacements and they're just like where's our championship? They wouldn't even let them suit up or be at the game. It was really a tacky thing.
Speaker 1:Losers, losers, but.
Speaker 3:Hayden's already losing his interest because it's sports.
Speaker 1:What are we talking about? The replacements.
Speaker 3:Well, yes, we are talking about soccer. There's a soccer player in this, or a football player?
Speaker 1:Football. That's the guy from.
Speaker 2:The Irish guy yeah, he's from Whatever. Same thing.
Speaker 1:The Dance with Dragons show yes, he plays Sir Otto Hightower.
Speaker 3:That's right, and he also plays Dr Connors in.
Speaker 1:Spider-Man Lizard man In the Amazing Spider-Man, yeah.
Speaker 3:But an unnamed fictional professional football league is hit with a player strike. With four games left in the season, the Washington Sentinels calls in. Or the Washington Sentinels team owner, ed O'Neill not related to the actor from Married with Children brings in his former coach, jimmy McGinty, telling him the league's going into the dumpster and they're going to finish the regular season with replacement players, and asks him to return to the coach the Sentinels for the rest of the season, adding that winning three of their last four will get them into the playoffs.
Speaker 1:That might be my new favorite name.
Speaker 2:Ed O'Neill no.
Speaker 1:Jimmy McGinty.
Speaker 2:Jimmy McGinty, I dig it.
Speaker 1:It's like somebody would name their dog that Sir Jimmy McGinty. Jimmy McGinty.
Speaker 3:Jimmy McGinty Accepts on the condition that he can sign all the players he wants without the ownership's interference. And then we get the well it opens with like the news thing, and then it cuts to Shane Falco playing football underwater like in scuba gear.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's cleaning out from under his boat.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's like his job.
Speaker 2:He finances a trophy, so he's down there pretending like he's playing, but he's in scuba gear.
Speaker 3:You've got to think the water resistance of throwing underwater.
Speaker 2:How far is that going to go, though?
Speaker 3:I don't know, but when he gets back on land and yeets it.
Speaker 2:That guy can throw like 100 yards.
Speaker 3:He's going to be the best quarterback in the entire league, the best of all time. So Jimmy McGinty, oh I like, has like that old school kind of coach. Look, he's got like the straw fedora hat, like the sports jacket, the tie. It's very like he's got a mustache.
Speaker 3:That's Hackman, right yeah that's Gene Hackman's character Hackman, and he pulls together varying players of talents who he believes can make an entertaining, if not winning, team Huh, including Shane Falco, former All-American from Ohio State, whose career went to pieces after a lopsided Sugar Bowl loss Whoa, and he now lives in a houseboat in the DC area while scrubbing barnacles off of boats.
Speaker 1:Barnacles, can he dodge bullets? He can dodge tacklers.
Speaker 2:No, he couldn't, no, no, no, he could not.
Speaker 3:And also a slew of other bizarre players, because I think they have like an open tryout too, because they bring in the sumo guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, fumiko. And then you also have Orlando Jones, which, like when they're showing how they got him, he's racing like some guy steals something from the convenience store that he's working at. So he takes off out of the gas station chasing him down and he's like running next to him going hey man, you're pretty fast, he's just like talking as he's like jogging at that point next to him the guy like slips or whatever, like it was like a twinkie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, goes flying into the sky because the Asian order is like get him.
Speaker 2:And then it cuts back to the coaches and they're like, hey, but does he have any hands? And then it cuts back to him and Twinkie falls, hits him in the face, and then it hits the ground and he steps on it.
Speaker 3:Hands of stone Could not catch a cold naked in Alaska in January. But he's fast, but he's really really fast, real fast In January, but he's fast, but he's really really fast, real fast. The two brothers who are offensive guards, the guards, they're great.
Speaker 2:Jamal and.
Speaker 3:Andre, they were NFL players. They were fantastic when they were on the same team, but when you separated them, it all just fell apart and they're like bodyguards for some group. And one of them was like yeah, it's like hey, we're playing football again. And the one answer was like yeah, it's like, hey, we're playing football again and the bro's like all right.
Speaker 2:And they just walk away, just leave it. Yeah, some guy at their guard gets mobbed by fans as they just walk away.
Speaker 3:It's like, yeah, we're going to go play football. Now you get Ryze Ifan's character.
Speaker 2:Who what. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Nigel Gruff yeah, nigel Gruff, who's called the Leg Because McGinty saw him on TV kicking a football from like one side of the pitch to the other and scoring, so it's like he's obviously going to be a great kicker. He's wiry.
Speaker 2:He's wiry. He keeps telling the other coaches like he's wiry. He's wiry.
Speaker 1:I just remember like he just shows up drunk smoking a cigarette, kicks the crap out of the football and it goes back.
Speaker 3:And he's side-humping the air. He's just like come on, come on. He's like ooh, and he's like tss.
Speaker 2:There's one part where he goes up to kick the field goal in the middle of the game, takes a cigarette, kicks it out and John Madden goes. Is he smoking on the field? I think he's smoking down there, Pat. It's a good movie.
Speaker 3:You get Danny Bateman, played by Jon Favreau, who's a.
Speaker 2:Happy Hogan. He's like a SWAT cop.
Speaker 3:He was like a SWAT guy on the DC. He's on the DC SWAT team and it's just like some perp like and it just cuts to him in full SWAT gear, just spear this guy. He's just like, ah, Like losing his mind. It's just like, yeah, he was playing in college and then, like he joined, like, signed up in the military and went to Desert Storm and then he came back and then it's like, then he decided to be a cop.
Speaker 2:Yes, they said something about like his kidney.
Speaker 3:He couldn't be in the pro or couldn't like that, so he joined the police force yeah, he tackles bad guys and then they have the one guy they get on work release and they have to change his name yeah, like it's a guy from prison, but uh art lefleur.
Speaker 2:Uh, let's see, is it? He plays one of the assistant coaches yeah, well, they drop him off with him and they're like he's like, well, let's uh go somewhere where there's witnesses there's some more, there's some witnesses in. Uh, a little more uh light they're standing like in, like a dark, like tunnel or whatever, yeah, and he's like uncuffing him and he's just like nice watch and he's just like oh this, it's cheap, it's, it's plastic probably fake. It's probably fake.
Speaker 3:It doesn't even work but that guy was actually like in the movie supposed to have been. He was an nfl but then he got sent to prison because he like resisted arrest or something and him and obviously Danny Bateman do not get along well. And then tight end Brian Murphy, who's deaf because like they're doing the tryout and he's like just he's a stud player, like amazing, and the guy like walks up to the coach, he's like that was great, and he's the guy he starts signing at him.
Speaker 2:He's like and he just stares at him.
Speaker 3:He's like and he just turns and leaves and he goes the tight end is deaf. He goes yeah, he'll never get called off sides. It's just like how am I supposed to coach him? He's just like learn sign language. And like walks away. And then, like McGivney, goes to try to get Shane Falco to show up and he's like no, I don't play football. And it's like you know every player dreams of a second chance.
Speaker 3:You know being all motivational, and then Shane Falco shows up, but also when all the players left, all the cheerleaders left in solidarity, except the head cheerleader who only makes $50 a game according to the movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow.
Speaker 3:So they're having cheerleader replacements and some of them are like scary. And then strippers or exotic dancers show up and they're like they have obviously the moves you could say, and it's like, oh, you guys are good. It's like, oh yeah, we have more friends. It's just like you guys are dancers, like yeah, I was like what kind polls are involved. So then they get strippers to be cheerleaders Nice, which obviously makes for fun for the whole family. Oh yeah, maybe not the whole family, but Regardless.
Speaker 2:Well, after they've picked the players that they're going to keep or whatever they're sitting down, right before the first I guess it's the first game.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But you got Jon Favreau and then Heath the cop, and then you have the other guy that's the prisoner, and they're sitting there just looking at each other eating in silence. Orlando Jones' character comes up, sits down between them. He's like you know what I heard my man? He's innocent, he didn't even do it. I was like you know, if there was a cop in here right now, I'd bust him in the nose. And then John Favreau's character just looks at him and goes I'm a cop.
Speaker 3:And he goes oh, I'll be over there, I'll be over there. And then they show up at practice or whatever, and all the NFL players are, like you know, picketing and striking and the jerk NFL players, like they, flip over Shane Falco's truck. Yeah, they literally just like tip it over and they're all like yeah and like high-fiving, and one guy has on like a leopard cowboy hat and it's like dude.
Speaker 1:Like Nobody can take you seriously, dude like go away, it's so stupid.
Speaker 2:Well, they've got to do it again. After the first game that they win, they get ready for like the week for the second game. They've got to flip his car over again and Jamal and Andre are standing out there hey, that's my quarterback. And they start shooting his. They're like oh, is that your car?
Speaker 3:And like the NFL guy is like laughing guy's like laughing he goes yeah and he just pulls out a glock and starts shooting his windshield and he's like what are you doing? You crazy sob. And he goes. So so I'm a son. And he just walks around and just looks at him and points and blows out the driver's side window in like one shot and he goes flip, flip my man's truck over. He's just like you're gonna go to jail. He goes no, I'm not, he's like wax it too well I flip it back over.
Speaker 2:They're walking in, they go. Shane man, how's your back, your shoulder, feeling okay?
Speaker 3:What's that smell? It's like yams Yams. Oh, because after the first practice, the crazy cheerleader who the two of them have obvious attraction, she's driving him home and he's holding on For dear life Because she's driving Like on the wrong side Of the road On sidewalks.
Speaker 2:She doesn't know what brakes are.
Speaker 3:And Keanu Reeves is just like. This is more dangerous than doing John Wick. But the replacements have their first game and it doesn't go well.
Speaker 2:They win, don't they?
Speaker 3:No, they lose the first game, because the sumo wrestler is like raw eggs relentlessly and they're like arguing and pushing each other in the huddle about who's standing in whose spot. The sumo wrestler guy throws up and then they're all about to start throwing up. Orlando Jones throws up. It's like all right, everybody shift over and they're getting like delay, game, delay, game, delay game.
Speaker 2:Well they say shift. They all just put their arms around each other and then they're like fast, step All right, left on two, One, two and they're like what the hell are they doing?
Speaker 3:And Jimmy McGinty, it's like it's the first thing they've done as a team.
Speaker 1:Let him go, let him go.
Speaker 3:They end up kind of coming back. But Shane Falco sees a pending blitz, calls the audible and falls short of the winning touchdown, and then he is scolded by Jimmy McGinty yeah, jimmy McGinty, for winners always want the ball when the game's on the line.
Speaker 2:Which made me think but didn't he do what he's supposed to do?
Speaker 3:Yeah, he kind of.
Speaker 2:That means that he took the ball because he wanted to win.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe it was like a cautionary tale. You shouldn't get the ball when you want to win.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So the boys, they go out to commiserate at a bar about their loss when the NFL players show up?
Speaker 1:Of course they do.
Speaker 3:And they start insulting the deft tight end.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:And giving him the business. And then Shane Falco tries like separate him and the NFL quarterback punches Shane Falco and like all the players about to like fight and he's like starts separating him. And then he sees Danny Bateman show up because during practice he tried to kill Falco because he had on a red shirt goes. I just see red and I just lose it and he's like standing there with a cowboy hat on or a sombrero.
Speaker 2:It's not even on, it's like on his back, it's just on his back.
Speaker 3:And he's holding a bottle of Don Julio and he's like, hey, baby. And he's like, yeah, he goes. Remember what we said about Red, forget it. He goes, okay, and he just goes. And Keanu Reeves just decks the quarterback in the face and as he spins, he gets spear tackled by Jon.
Speaker 2:Favreau. Well then you have Jamal, who's like not fazed by any of it.
Speaker 3:He's sitting there drinking at the bar and they bump into him and he just goes and stares at the dude, grabs him, puts him on the bar and runs him down like the whole bar, knocking everything over and breaking stuff while yelling at him, and the whole time Orlando Bloom's hiding behind the jukebox.
Speaker 1:Orlando Jones.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, orlando Jones, two completely different people.
Speaker 1:My bad. It'd be a wow movie if Orlando Bloom was in it.
Speaker 3:The leg, the leg is like going like come on, come on, come on to some guy, he goes hold it Bow.
Speaker 3:And he kicks him in the balls like as hard as he can and drops the guy, looks at him, goes let's play football, and then kicks him in the face and knocks him out. And then the cops show up and all the replacements get arrested and not the NFL players. Then they do their dance in the cell Because Orlando Jones is going crazy. He's like, oh, that fight. It's like, oh yeah, I saw you hiding behind the jukebox. Clifford Franklin.
Speaker 2:Clifford.
Speaker 3:Franklin is his name in the movie. And then they all start bonding while singing I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor, and they're all like doing, like dancing, including the convict guy and Danny Bateman, showing a sign of mutual respect now and growing their personal relationships.
Speaker 1:They're coming together amidst adversity.
Speaker 3:They're all dancing. Then Jimmy McGinty comes down and they're all like walking off. Orlando Jones and the deaf guy are still dancing and they have to like grab him. And then they have to turn and grab the deaf guy because he doesn't know. And they're all like, and it's just like, if there's any fighting on this team, it's like this is not going to be tiring, we're not going to have another night like this, and they're all like, okay's like let's get out of here, and then they start bonding and playing better football and they start winning with the help of strippers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's like one play where, like they're, I think, they're trying to draw them all side or something, but basically the the opposing team is on offense, they're getting down, they're getting ready to say hut, they look over and the girls are just all grinding on each other and then you see all the football players just turn and look.
Speaker 3:Like the whole offensive line's head just goes.
Speaker 2:Even the ref is like on accident, blowing the whistle.
Speaker 3:And there's just some dude in the audience like losing it. He's like yeah.
Speaker 2:And there's like kids and like moms are covering their eyes and the kid's like no, I don't want to see this One of the troopers, slaps the other one on the butt and all of a sudden you see the quarterback go huh and the defense just goes pancakes. Yeah, the center snaps the ball and nobody else moves except for the defense.
Speaker 3:But the coach is losing it. He's getting mad. He's just like did you see that? That one smacked the other one's butt? He's like get those people out of here.
Speaker 2:it's like he's like it is pretty funny.
Speaker 3:But also a love story starts to start between the head cheerleader and Shane Falco who literally tells him. I don't date football players while they go out to the bar that she also owns and runs while she's the head cheerleader and kicks people out, kicks out regulars. So the two of them can be together, which is redonkulous, redonkulous.
Speaker 2:And then you also find out Nigel is kind of in debt with loan sharks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, with some shady characters who are watching in Europe and see him on TV and they're like huh.
Speaker 2:Well, no, they're in the bar watching something and they just happened to see him on the TV and they're like wait a minute. You actually see like the clip of him smoking a cigarette.
Speaker 3:What's great is for football fans? It's John Madden and Pat Summerall. We used to do Monday night football and, like all, like the profile games of the Super Bowl or the announcers in the movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Very similar to to how Major League did it. What was?
Speaker 2:the guy's name. It was baseball, I don't know Okay.
Speaker 3:I'm mad, I'm forgetting, because he just passed away. Baseball Tennis when are we at? Where are we at? Where are we at? They have a meeting after the game or the next day at a Chuck Talk with McGinty. Is it rain? Oh yeah, it is rain.
Speaker 1:Okay, I thought I heard something.
Speaker 3:I was like what is that sound? I saw lightning outside. I was like it's raining. Huh. Where they have their fears, their fears, where they talk about their fears.
Speaker 1:What's I remember?
Speaker 3:John.
Speaker 1:Faber's fears something silly. Was it clowns or something I can't remember?
Speaker 3:No it was Clifford Franklin's Orlando Jones. He's like spiders, he's like I don't know. Spiders are pretty scary Because they're all kind of like yeah, those are like, I don't like that. And then Shane Falco says his is quicksand. It's like you keep struggling and struggling.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he means it as a metaphor though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's very metaphorical and they're all like, damn, that's some deep, but it brings them even closer together. And then the next game, against San Diego. They fall behind again but are able to come together and rally after a 65-yard field goal by their Welsh kicker, Nigel. Nigel and win the game, which is very nice.
Speaker 1:What's like the NFL record 66?
Speaker 3:yards.
Speaker 2:That's the record, or 68 yards. It might be even further than that.
Speaker 3:now I don't think anyone's gone to 70. No, I know it's in the 60s.
Speaker 2:I know they've attempted some from the 70s in the 70-yard range. They had the kickoff kicker out there kicking the field goal.
Speaker 3:I think the record is 65 or 66.
Speaker 2:It's in the 60s, but I think they've tried 70s.
Speaker 3:It might be 68. That's like no one's gone to 70. Okay, as far as I know, that's a long way. Yeah, let alone accurately yeah.
Speaker 1:And then Shane Falco and the head cheerleader meet at a bar again and they share a passionate kiss.
Speaker 3:And then they win another game, after they nearly lose to Phoenix but win on a couple of improbable plays. The sumo wrestler gets the ball, oh yeah, and he catches it and goes holy and they're like run and the guards are. And goes holy and they're like run and the guards are like follow me and they're just knocking people senseless.
Speaker 2:He has like four or five guys jump on his back and he just carries them to the end zone.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because the guy's like jump on his back and the announcer's just like I love watching a fat guy run and the big man scores.
Speaker 2:Because the helmet looks ridiculous.
Speaker 3:It looks like his head's actually bigger than the helmet.
Speaker 2:They use napkins for cheek pads.
Speaker 3:They come back to Washington and the owner tells Jimmy McGinty that Eddie Martell, the actual quarterback, crossed the picket line and so has all of the Dallas football team who they're about to be their next opponent, and that Eddie Martell's going to start and not Shane Falco, breaking the compromise and the promise. And he wants to quit on the spot, but he refuses.
Speaker 1:Just refuses.
Speaker 3:Well, he tells it and he gives in, and he tells Falco that he has heart Martel lacks. And then when Falco gives the team the news, they're disheartened and they give him a farewell toast and he stands up the head cheerleader on another date, aw, and he goes back to scrubbing barnacles. That's his true passion.
Speaker 3:Barnacle scrubber. So in the first half of the game, eddie Martell severely clashes with the replacement players, blaming them for his mistakes and smugly ignoring McGinty's play calls. They trail 17-0 at the half. And then, while they're all being mad and upset, shane Falco sees it on TV.
Speaker 2:And then Shane Falco sees it on TV. Remember when the water boys showed up at halftime After Mug Dogs went to Super?
Speaker 3:Bowl. And then Shane Falco walks in and Jim McGinty looks down and goes that whole took you so long, suit up. And then Martell's just like oh, I'm the quarterback, I won two Super Bowls. And then they beat the crap out of him or something, they throw him out of the locker room and they're like get out of here. And then Shane Falco rallies the team back Within a field goal. Right, yeah, to a field goal.
Speaker 2:But Nigel has to because he sees the swarthy guys like the long-shirt people are like standing on the sidelines, but he basically has to throw the game for them, yeah.
Speaker 3:And he's like crying, like tearing up Because if he doesn't do he's gonna lose his pub and falco's the place kicker holder, yeah, and um, he's like all right, he's like I got it and like he they go to do the thing and he takes the snap and just takes off running. But nigel runs and does the whole kick and like launches himself and falls, like breaks his arm, yeah, or like breaks his shoulder something yeah and then falco runs and scores the winning touchdown.
Speaker 1:Yep, wow, he's a hero, he's a hero.
Speaker 2:We can be heroes just for one day Did he reconcile.
Speaker 3:Yes, he did. Yeah, you know he did.
Speaker 2:Kisses the cheerleader.
Speaker 1:Happy ending 100% happy ending.
Speaker 3:But they never. That's the end of the movie. They don't, you know, they don't get to go play in the playoffs, they just that was the end of their career.
Speaker 2:That was all four games.
Speaker 3:They got a second chance to come back and play pro football and the narrative is Gene Hackman going. Like you know, there might be a contract for some of them.
Speaker 2:It's, like you know, an offer.
Speaker 3:For just a little.
Speaker 1:Glory's eternal. Go back to scrubbing barnacles.
Speaker 2:I always thought you know if I could play football? And now I think, god, if I got hit one time I'd just be on the floor. Yeah, my body couldn't take that punishment anymore. Nope.
Speaker 3:You're just the meme of Peter Griffin laying there just like twisted. I'm like that.
Speaker 2:And then he'd be like yeah, if somebody hit me as hard as the people in the NFL and college hit nowadays, I'd have to shoot them, because I get hit by a truck.
Speaker 1:I just retire. Just put me in a chair and leave me.
Speaker 3:Mitch, what did you think of this movie? I love it I think it's a great movie.
Speaker 1:I'm not a big sports movie person, but I did enjoy this movie. I watched it a couple times back years ago.
Speaker 2:I mean not because it's like some kind of masterpiece film. It's just fun to watch. It's funny. What's their?
Speaker 1:name Like the Sharks or something, the Washington Sentinels.
Speaker 3:That might be a question.
Speaker 1:That was scary Mitch that was Mitch's this, that was scary Mitch. That was Mitch's. This is mine.
Speaker 3:Soccer. We got the replacements trivia. What are we replacing it?
Speaker 2:with.
Speaker 3:With soccer.
Speaker 2:Oh no.
Speaker 3:Soccer. Yes, jesus RIP.
Speaker 2:Yours is loud, hayden's is not. Oh, no, yes.
Speaker 3:Jesus RIP. Who's who? Yours is loud Hayden's is not Question one. What is Shane Falco's jersey number? I know I heard Mitch's start first, 18. No 16.
Speaker 2:Yes, that was my next guess After I said 18,. I was like, oh wait, I'm on the board.
Speaker 1:What college Did you know that? Or did you guess? I don't know.
Speaker 2:For me to know you right now.
Speaker 3:See how well Hayden memorized this I did not.
Speaker 1:That was the only one I can remember 16.
Speaker 3:Peggy 16. What college did Shane Falco play for before the pros?
Speaker 2:Florida State.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:Good luck Tennessee.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:Don't remember, you lived in this state. Indiana no.
Speaker 2:Illinois.
Speaker 1:No Florida. No I already said, florida, I lived in Ohio.
Speaker 3:Yes, okay, ohio State.
Speaker 1:That's the last state that I lived in.
Speaker 3:That was like the only hint, because when I said it I was like did he live in Ohio? I was born there. Am I giving him erroneous?
Speaker 1:hints Erroneous, erroneous.
Speaker 3:What nickname was Shane Falco given due to his Sugar Bowl collapse? What nickname was Shane Falco given due to his Sugar Bowl collapse? Soccer?
Speaker 1:Sugar Lips no oh.
Speaker 2:Footsteps Falco.
Speaker 3:Yep Footsteps. Falco Mitch is on the scoreboard, all right, what is the name?
Speaker 2:of the professional team, the players are the Sentinels?
Speaker 1:Yes, Washington.
Speaker 3:Sentinels? Yes, mitch, you are correct. Sir, what song plays during the team's bar fight?
Speaker 1:I Will Survive.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:Good thing, we talked about that.
Speaker 3:Good thing we reviewed the movie before we did this, yep, trying to give you your best chances. What position does Danny Bateman play? Middle linebacker.
Speaker 1:Yes, that was going to be my guess.
Speaker 2:Was it.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:What branch of the military did Danny Bateman serve in?
Speaker 1:Marines.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:Darn it.
Speaker 2:Army. Yes, I should have said.
Speaker 1:Army. He seemed like a Marine because he's so stupid.
Speaker 3:What are the names of the two British brothers on the team?
Speaker 2:British brothers.
Speaker 3:This is Hayden Chat. Gpt these questions.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to say Jamal and Andre.
Speaker 3:It says Nigel and Jamal Jackson, but then it says correction, actually Nigel Gruff is Welsh.
Speaker 2:Jamal is not his brother. He stands is tough trivia. Jamal and andre are the two brothers yes, nigel and jamal no how about this?
Speaker 3:what job does nigel gruff have?
Speaker 1:he owns a bar yes, he's I, I buzzed in first. Give me that point.
Speaker 2:I heard Mitch first.
Speaker 3:I'm not going to let you. What does Nigel Gruff admit to owing money for?
Speaker 1:Betting against himself.
Speaker 3:I'll give you that one Sports betting or gambling. What does Shane Falco do for a living?
Speaker 1:He scrubs barnacles.
Speaker 3:Off of boots. It's actually tied.
Speaker 2:Five to five. This is outrageous.
Speaker 3:What item is taped to the team's lockers before the final game?
Speaker 1:Soccer the old starting lineup of the previous team.
Speaker 3:No, okay, this is a tough one, but I don't think I don't know A piece of paper with the word winners on it.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay Stupid, I should have dumbed it down a lot more than that, oh the paper says win.
Speaker 3:What fear does Nigel Gruff mention during the fear scene Soccer?
Speaker 1:Hayden. Oh, he's afraid of spiders. No, darn it.
Speaker 3:We'll just get that out of the way. I don't remember. Think actual fears for adults being beaten up.
Speaker 1:No like adult fear. Homeless no, like adult fear.
Speaker 3:Homeless no, going broke you guys are dancing around it, but you need to think a little bit.
Speaker 1:Dying alone.
Speaker 3:It's a one-year event that we all have to do that has to be done by Filing taxes. And if you do it wrong.
Speaker 2:Filing taxes.
Speaker 3:Who comes after you, irs?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you the IRS.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so what? It's the IRS.
Speaker 1:Oh, so he's afraid of the IRS? Oh, okay.
Speaker 3:I'll give you both a point, because you both said it literally simultaneously.
Speaker 2:I said violent taxes. That's the other thing.
Speaker 3:Who plays the cheerleader? Captain Lachland? No, not Sarah.
Speaker 1:Lachland Sarah McLachland.
Speaker 3:No, not Sarah Lachland, sarah McLachlan.
Speaker 2:In the arms of the beautiful.
Speaker 3:He just scrolled up to see it. Brooke Langdon, yes.
Speaker 1:What's her name? No, it's Brooke Langdon. That's what I said. I had IMDb pulled up.
Speaker 3:I award you no points for cheating here.
Speaker 2:I'll scroll it away.
Speaker 1:What is?
Speaker 3:her job other than being a cheerleader.
Speaker 1:She's a bar owner.
Speaker 2:Yes, Hayden's getting all the questions that we just reviewed.
Speaker 3:Yes. What unique strategy does Nigel use to distract opposing players when kicking Mitch?
Speaker 2:The dance. I don't know what to call it.
Speaker 1:He humps the air. No, he smokes cigarettes Not the answer he stretches Goofy.
Speaker 3:Your AI wrote this I don't know. It's not my AI. He talks trash in a Welsh accent. Oh, is that true? I don't know. Okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, next. Thing.
Speaker 3:All right, this is an easy one. This is an easy one. What is Clifford Franklin's biggest struggle as a receiver?
Speaker 2:Catching.
Speaker 3:Yes, catching the ball, the one thing he needs to do.
Speaker 2:I was thinking about the scene where he's got stuff all over his hands. He's like coach. Look like I didn't detect that.
Speaker 3:What's that stuff called? Stick them Okay. That wasn't that, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying that I've used it before it works, but it before it works, but it works.
Speaker 3:Next question what item does Clifford Franklin get stuck on his hands?
Speaker 1:Stick them, stick them. You didn't give me a chance.
Speaker 3:It's because Mitch is like ah, and you're just like.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to put my buzzer down.
Speaker 3:What is the occupation of the two guards on the team Hayden? Thank you, it's security. Yes, all right, well done, still tied Eight to eight.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:More like bouncers but you know what dance song do the team Mitch? I Will Survive. Yes, that's a very prevalent, didn't we already?
Speaker 2:do that question. Yes, mitch, I will survive. Yes.
Speaker 3:That's a very prevalent. Didn't we already do that question? Yes, who is the coach of the Sentinels Hayden?
Speaker 2:Jimmy McGinty. Yes, as he inhaled. I was wondering if he forgot.
Speaker 3:Who portrays Coach Jimmy McGinty Hayden?
Speaker 1:The last starting quarterback.
Speaker 3:Gene Hackman yes.
Speaker 1:Oh, portrays, I thought you said betrays. No, I said poor. Oh, okay, not buh.
Speaker 3:Hmm, what is Shane Falco eating when McGinty first finds him on the?
Speaker 2:boat.
Speaker 1:A hot dog no.
Speaker 3:Pineapple no A taco.
Speaker 2:No, a melon.
Speaker 3:No, a hamburger.
Speaker 2:It's not fruit A hamburger.
Speaker 3:It's a junk food item, not a burger.
Speaker 1:Cheetos, no Pizza.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Thank you no.
Speaker 3:It was cold pizza, but I figured we'd just go with pizza for the sake of everyone here. What does McGinty say is more important than talent Heart?
Speaker 2:It is. I'm going to lose football trivia night.
Speaker 1:Who needs to watch these movies?
Speaker 3:What key player returns during the final game? Hayden, the last starting quarterback. What is his name? Monroe?
Speaker 2:I don't remember his name.
Speaker 1:I said it like four times.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:Do I get the point though? Because I said last time no you don't get the point.
Speaker 2:It's not the name.
Speaker 1:Hang on, I'll tell you his name in a second.
Speaker 3:Eddie Martell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I said.
Speaker 2:Don't worry, your time to answer trivia is about to come up.
Speaker 3:What prompts Falco to return during the final game?
Speaker 1:They're down 17-0.
Speaker 3:Well, no, that's not the answer that I have here.
Speaker 1:The starting quarterback's yelling at the team.
Speaker 2:He can tell that the team doesn't respect the starting quarterback.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but that's not what the chat GPT said.
Speaker 2:Well, chat GPT's wrong.
Speaker 1:Something that Jimmy McGinty said on TV.
Speaker 3:No, Well, that actually is it in the movie. He's like well, you need heart. Yeah, yeah, give me the point what's the team's final score in the last game?
Speaker 2:21-17.
Speaker 1:So close 20-17. Yes, yes.
Speaker 3:How do the Sentinels win the final game?
Speaker 1:Shane Falco runs a touchdown. No what? That's what you said in your recap. I was wrong.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know. They go to kick the field goal and he picks up and runs with it. It's a pass play.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's not a pass play though.
Speaker 2:It's that kick.
Speaker 3:You've chat GPT sucks.
Speaker 1:Did you?
Speaker 3:chat, gpt, even watch this movie.
Speaker 1:Me and chat GPT are the same way.
Speaker 2:That's the whole point of it being so dramatic.
Speaker 3:The answer is Falco throws a touchdown pass to Clifford Franklin in the final seconds. I don't remember that, Cause I think it's they get the touchdown and it's supposed to be the extra point.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 3:But he does it and goes for two.
Speaker 2:Okay, which?
Speaker 3:doesn't make sense, because I still wouldn't. They still would have the points, they would have had 20.
Speaker 2:They're just rubbing it in, they would have had 19 to 17.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, that doesn't make any sense. No points for anyone. How?
Speaker 1:many is left. Two no more chat, so I've already won.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 3:Because I'm not entirely sure about these last two suspect questions.
Speaker 1:Go ahead.
Speaker 3:What term does Coach McGinty use to describe what separates winners and losers? Heart no.
Speaker 1:You have to have heart Inches. Oh, okay, that's what she said.
Speaker 3:When a mommy daddy. What is the last spoken line in the movie? I have heart, no.
Speaker 2:We can be heroes.
Speaker 3:Any man doesn't have heart spends a night in the box.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 3:What is the greatness, no matter how brief stays with a man. Sure, yeah, then the last part of this trivia says let me know if you'd like this turned into a quiz format, printable sheet or interactive game.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to lie. I typed in give me the most difficult questions possible for the replacements movie trivia. So he's deck to deck. I'm just going just gonna pull it, tom, I'm not doing it if I, if I didn't know the we'll be, because you know, the other day I tried to do trivia.
Speaker 2:You know like no, no more punishments, I'm just not gonna do it what was the who got punished for minecraft?
Speaker 1:uh mitch did. What do going to?
Speaker 2:do he wants me to watch Snow White?
Speaker 1:We'll see how that goes. Oh, that's right, you want to watch Snow White? We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 2:Have you seen the?
Speaker 1:Borderlands movie.
Speaker 2:No, but at least it's free.
Speaker 1:All right, you can watch the Borderlands movie.
Speaker 2:Yay.
Speaker 1:Zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes right now. I believe it. Yeah, I believe it, it's absolutely dog crap.
Speaker 3:I believe it. That was our episode about the replacements.
Speaker 1:You're welcome listeners.
Speaker 3:I said I don't know why we keep doing these episodes after events, because we're exhausted.
Speaker 1:You know what it's kind of like.
Speaker 3:But you know why we have heart?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we do have heart and me not being like the choice. You know trivia person for this you could say I was a replacement.
Speaker 2:I was. You're always a replacement.
Speaker 3:Hayden won football movie trivia. I have hearts. We just all need to stand in awe. I have hearts.
Speaker 1:I will survive. I was petrified. I was petrified, I was petrified, I was petrified, I was petrified, I was petrified, I was petrified. Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side.
Speaker 3:We're just going to do this for the next 20 minutes.
Speaker 1:This is the outro, yeah the outro, ah, okay.
Speaker 2:And I learned how to get along with all your bad. Well, I'm Mitch, I'm Tom and we had a good shorter episode today.
Speaker 3:Hope you enjoyed our stuff. Hopefully you don't get copyright infringement because of this song.
Speaker 1:Well, it would be the most knowledgeable football person in the world.
Speaker 2:Oh, we're fixing that we are fixing that.
Speaker 3:Remember. The Titans is next. We hope you enjoyed this. We'll catch you on our next episode.
Speaker 1:Bye-bye, bye.
Speaker 2:All right, what's up guys? I'm not worried about copyright infringement. We do music trivia. We played half the song. If it means that much to them, that means we're doing something right you'd have to pay us.
Speaker 3:Isn't that wild?
