Someone alien to American football

Rating: 8/10 (28 December 2014)

Being french (did I hear French? where is the guillotine?) I watched this movie as I am a great fan of both Peter Berg and Billy Bob Thornton (especially as a coach in a comedy or a drama). I am a stranger to American football as it is not on TV in Europe in spite of a few attempts.
For a foreigner, it is such a great experience to watch this movie as it shows a few things that are so different to our world in ol' Europe and how sport, its history and how it is integrated into culture in some countries such as England or the US.
It is interesting also in a sense that it shows that in poor areas of the US, the American dream is only possible through getting in a college and may be in a sport team and one is at the mercy of a potential debilitating injury.
The pressure of "old hands" players who know best on the coach, the people outside of the game who also think they know is marvellous.
Anyway, if you do not know anything about American culture and its sport, it is probably one of the best movie to watch.