Maybe this film didn’t go all the way. Everybody’s All American showcased Dennis Quaid as Gavin Grey as a superstar Running Back at LSU who had life by the balls and was the proverbial “Big Man on Campus”. He would go on to have a decent pro career, though we would slowly watch him go from college superstar, to solid pro, to a has-been longing for the past. The football scenes in the film were decent, so there is no issue here with that, but as much as we love Quaid in films about athletes, we equally detest him when he tries to put on an accent of any kind. The book in which the film is based on has the lead character commit suicide over the depression over losing who he was. With the current climate of football, perhaps this is where the film should have gone, and take it to the conclusion it was probably meant to go. A sad ending is better than the non-committed one it had.

We know there were no actual football scenes in the Revenge of the Nerds movies, but the clear rivals in this film was the Adams College Football team VS the incoming geeks of the institution.   The heroes may have been the geeks, but you couldn’t help but want to party with (regardless of whether you were cool or not) with Ogre, the monosyllabic linebacker who hated nerds (though he wasn’t sure why) and drank a lot of beer. Perhaps that is why at the end of the sequel Ogre, became joined Lambda Lambda Lambda and became one of the “good guys”, and also no matter what other gruff role Donald Gibb had, he would always be “Ogre” to most of us.

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.

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?