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Jean "Rosie" LeRose
Sep 12, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
The fictitious former Rookie of the Year for the Montreal Canadians had somehow lost his will to play Hockey and found himself working for Elsinore Brewery on the line where he was mysteriously under the spell of the evil Brewmeister. If you haven’t figured this out; yes this is a Canadian film, and will likely be a cult hit forever North of the United States. Of course, the McKenzie Brothers saved the day, and we can’t think of anything more Canadian than that. Now “Take off, eh?”
James "The Grim Reaper" Roper
Sep 12, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
He showed up out of shape, unmotivated and disinterested, but James “The Grim Reaper” Roper was the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the world, and in 1996, no white man was going to take that away. That may touch on racial nerves, but let’s face it, that was the only logical assumption in 1996! Incidentally (spoiler alert) this turned out to be the right assumption.
Jacques "Le Coq" Grande
Sep 12, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
Considering that Mike Myers loves the sport of Hockey so much and his hometown Toronto Maple Leafs so much, why did he make a movie that seemed to destroy it? We won’t go into detail about how bad the movie is, as a million blogs in cyberspace have already done it. However for us, the lone bright spot in this Golden Raspberry winner was Justin Timberlake showing why he is someone to look forward to when he hosts Saturday Night Live. Basically, our support of Timberlake here is that he didn’t kill his career, like Myers did in this movie. Not exactly a ringing endorsement for induction, but we really don’t have much else to work with here.
Jack Jefferson
Sep 12, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
The film that launched the career of James Earl Jones, “The Great White Hope” was the very much based on the life of the first African American Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Jack Johnson. As Jack Jefferson, we watched Jefferson struggle with the race card in an era that thankfully none of us know firsthand. The film was more about that, than actual boxing, but the performance of Jones is a gem we should not forget.