Giving false hope to all dudes over 40 who think they still have it to go out and play.
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Phillip Rivers
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Funny story about the 2nd clip. Saw an interview with the cast. The director asked Jon Gries if he could hit Jon Heder with the ball. Gries had played a little low minors baseball so he said yeah I think I can. He nailed him first take. Efren Ramirez was supposed to stay in the scene longer but had to duck out because he was laughing so hard.
There is just so much perfection in that scene. Everything is just magical.
I mean, they are just sitting on front porch steps - not even at a table - eating steak and absolutely nothing else. That shirt that Uncle Rico is wearing, my God, what even is it? And he just grabs the steak off the other dude’s plate while he’s cutting it, and bítch slings it at two dudes riding a single bicycle and smokes one of them in the face.
None of it makes any sense it at all, but it just works.
I remember watching this with my father whenever it hit DVD.
He made me cut it off lol
Great movie.
With that throwing motion, I find it very hard to believe Gries played any sport, much less baseball. Maybe he was doing it for laughs, but it's so accurate to the way some people throw I thought it was real.
It always reminds me of Maverick throwing Goose's dog tags off the back of the aircraft carrier. Even though it's supposed to be a poignant moment in one of our favorite movies to watch together, my son and I laugh every time.
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I absolutely hated it the first time I saw it. My friends were dying laughing. They made me re-watch it the next day and I got the humor, so to speak.
To bring this full circle, I sat down to watch TV with my son while he was watching YouTube videos. After a few minutes I told him had lost all tv privileges because he was choosing to watch the dumbest stuff.
I didn't watch but a few minute of the game, but it looked like Rivers had a bit of a muffin top - a paunch.
I wasn't ever the biggest Rivers fan, but it really has been nice to be able to switch over from the current college football $hitshow to a story like this. I'm a Niners fan so I surely wasn't pulling for him, but I also wasn't mad to see him toss a couple TDs. The whole story of a 44 year old returning to the Pros, and his entire family being there to cheer him on is straight out of the movies.
I did get a good kick out of one of his throws in the second half, though. He had a WR on the right side of the field taking off down the field, and he cocks his arm way back to heave... a 25 yard wounded duck that fluttered to the ground like it'd been shot at the lake.
His body definitely isn’t in game day shape and I think they’ve already said that. I don’t know what the future holds for him as far as playing goes, but if he holds up and continues to progress with the next couple of games it kind of makes you wonder what some off season conditioning would do for him.