In 1993 I was starting my junior year, it was football season, and The Program was the talk of the team. All I could do was listen because I hadn't seen it and probably wasn't going to see it because going to the movies was one of those rare treats normally reserved for the summer.
25 years later I had the time the the opportunity and the desire to watch this 90's flick. It was a sports movie not unlike many other sports movies except they went a little deeper into the inner workings of a traditional university football program. That means recruiting, boosters, NCAA violations of all kinds, and the pressure on the kids in the program.
There were a couple of love stories mixed in the movie, one of which followed a familiar trope: good girl with intelligent, wealthy stiff boyfriend falls for boy from the other side of the tracks.
As a fan of sports and sports movies I liked the sports aspects of it. As an ardent opponent of movie romance I was looking for that to be filtered out.
25 years later I had the time the the opportunity and the desire to watch this 90's flick. It was a sports movie not unlike many other sports movies except they went a little deeper into the inner workings of a traditional university football program. That means recruiting, boosters, NCAA violations of all kinds, and the pressure on the kids in the program.
There were a couple of love stories mixed in the movie, one of which followed a familiar trope: good girl with intelligent, wealthy stiff boyfriend falls for boy from the other side of the tracks.
As a fan of sports and sports movies I liked the sports aspects of it. As an ardent opponent of movie romance I was looking for that to be filtered out.