My Favorite Sports Movie!

Rating: 9/10 (23 December 2006)

This movie was really good because it was exciting and dramatic. The movie is about a high school football team in 1988 Odessa, Texas. Everybody in town is expecting them to go to and win state. Billy Bob Thorton plays the head coach of the team. Derek Luke stars as the Boobie Miles the star running back. Garret Hedlund is the running/tailback with butter finger hands and an abusive dad played by Tim Mcgraw. In the first game of the season Miles gets hurt with the team at a 42-7 lead with 2 minutes left. That leads everyone to blame the coach for keeping him in the game. However backup running back Chris Comer and starting quarterback Mike Winchell played by Lucas Black rise up to the challenge and take the team to the playoffs. Other players include cornerback Brian Chavez played by Jay Hernandez who later starred in Hostel. They go to state and battle Dallas-Carter. Its a very exciting game with them losing just coming up inches short of the game winning touchdown. This movie is very good and I give it 9 stars out of 10.