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Frank Cushman
Aug 21, 2013
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The Athletes
When you first watched “Stand By Me” would you have ever thought in a million years that the fat kid would have believable as a number one draft pick in the NFL? Not only that, did you ever believe he would turn into a capable (we didn’t say great) actor? Perhaps it is that disbelief that got him onto our ballot.
Flash Gordon
Aug 21, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
We guess this qualifies. Altering the backstory to make him the Quarterback of the New York Jets (and we are sure he did better than Mark Sanchez), Flash Gordon does little in the realm of Football in this film that makes you remember that he is an NFL player. Still, with the movie is “so bad that it’s good” aura and status as a cult classic, could we see Flash Gordon enter this establishment?
David Greene
Aug 21, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
Does this one count? David Greene (Brendan Fraser) is from a working class Jewish family in Scranton, and is awarded an athletic scholarship to St. Matthews Prep. He faces bigotry once his teammates and classmates find out he is Jewish, but that is what the film is about, which overshadowed the few decent gridiron scenes from Fraser, who had the frame at the time to deliver it. This may have been one of the better roles of Fraser’s career (we are not exactly sure if that says something), but without seeing enough of the sport, do we really have a candidate here?
Darnell Jefferson
Aug 21, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
Do you want to what we liked most about Darnell Jefferson in the College Football movie, “The Program”? Quite simply out of the core group of football players in the flick, he was the only one who seemed to be on the right path.
We also consider that Jefferson (Omar Epps) played his way to become the team starting Running Back and stole that player’s girl in the process. Oh….and that woman was a young Halle Berry, nearing the apex of her cuteness. That enough makes him a star of this film.