Excellent movie and you don't have to like football to love it.

Rating: 10/10 (7 June 2015)

I am not a fan of football but was channel surfing and Kevin Costner, who is always terrific, was the star. Well, I loved this movie. It's one of the few that has been made in recent years with adult themes, adult outlooks and about adult concerns without getting into sex, nudity and murder.
I don't even understand football but that is secondary to the plot of a man who is under tremendous stress with the stress getting tighter and tighter. His reaction to the situations is compared to the players who are all under tremendous stress as well and through it all we see what they are made of and why his choices are what they are. We see how a mature adult deals with this type of pressure, how a hero deals with it.
If moral strength and character are truly elements in such a time of life changing events as this one, I have misjudged the sport. If not, well it's too bad that they aren't because it would truly enrich the game and erase the black eye that professional sport now has.