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Two minor things that bugged me


When Van Holden was having his fantasy football telephone call he says he'll give up Keyshawn and Maddox for Lewis. He goes on to say Maddox was the comeback player of the year and he threw for 6,000 yards. Tommy Maddox, whose career high in yardage is 3,414 yards, did win comeback player of the year in 2002. 6,000 yards? Nobody has ever thrown for that many yards and its not close.

Later while Matt is extolling the virtues of baseball he says "the Red Sox have a pitcher who can throw a ball over 90 miles per hour." Well, more than 90 percent of pitchers can do that. If he had said 100 miles per hour it would have made some sense.

Minor things, but in a sports film I think they could've done better. The fact that nobody associated with Green Street caught these errors is very surprising.

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Probably because UK people watching the movie wouldn't be aware of it which I think this movie was more geared to..

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This is a movie related to football, not to eggball (the sport played with the egg-shaped ball) ore boreball (the boring sport with no contact where you fell asleep before it ends). So those wrong details are irrelevant for this FOOTBALL movie!

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It's called Soccer, bro.



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It's called football, bruv.

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Ah good ol American arrogance.

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Relax! He was taking the piss out of you guys, mate. No need to go all "American arrogance" here. American football should be called "tackleball" or something else, I'll concede that.

I still don't see what is wrong with getting facts straight on something so simple. If it doesn't matter then why even have it in the dialogue? And as for it being marketed to UK and not USA, come on man! The protagonist is American. It was in many ways written for American audiences who had no knowledge of English football, hence all the expository dialogue explaining the nuances of it.

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God you're boring!

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because a soccer ball is shaped like a foot

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