The damnedest thing...
..happened to me this morning. I was pulling out of my road to go to work and the frost wasn't totally cleared off of my windows, so I tried to roll down my passenger side window to look out and it shattered. Guess it was frozen in the frame or something. Anyway, I'm getting that replaced today. Pack plays at BC tonight. Looks like an opportunity for a road win, if we play smart. Here's today's entry in the top ten list:
#7--The Longest Yard (1974)
Count me among the people who thought the 2005 remake was vastly inferior. The original casts Burt Reynolds as Paul Crewe, former all-pro QB sent up the river for stealing his girlfriend's Maserati and dumping it in Tampa Bay. He is initially unpopular in prison due to the fact that he shaved points off a football game which, according to his only friend, "is just un-American". Of course, he's made by the warden to form a team of convicts to face off against the the semi-pro team made up of the prison guards. To me, it's much darker and much funnier and a much better movie than the remake. More graphic violence, too.
Memorable Quote:
Caretaker: Most of these old boys don't have nothing. Never had nothing to start with. But you, You had it all. Then you let your teammates down, got yourself caught with your hand in the cookie jar.
Paul Crewe: Oh I did, did I?
Caretaker: Oh I ain't saying you did or you didn't. All I'm saying is that you could have robbed banks, sold dope or stole your grandmother's pension checks and none of us would have minded. But shaving points off of a football game, man that's un-American.
Today's musical selection:
Billy Joel--Piano Man
#7--The Longest Yard (1974)
Count me among the people who thought the 2005 remake was vastly inferior. The original casts Burt Reynolds as Paul Crewe, former all-pro QB sent up the river for stealing his girlfriend's Maserati and dumping it in Tampa Bay. He is initially unpopular in prison due to the fact that he shaved points off a football game which, according to his only friend, "is just un-American". Of course, he's made by the warden to form a team of convicts to face off against the the semi-pro team made up of the prison guards. To me, it's much darker and much funnier and a much better movie than the remake. More graphic violence, too.
Memorable Quote:
Caretaker: Most of these old boys don't have nothing. Never had nothing to start with. But you, You had it all. Then you let your teammates down, got yourself caught with your hand in the cookie jar.
Paul Crewe: Oh I did, did I?
Caretaker: Oh I ain't saying you did or you didn't. All I'm saying is that you could have robbed banks, sold dope or stole your grandmother's pension checks and none of us would have minded. But shaving points off of a football game, man that's un-American.
Today's musical selection:
Billy Joel--Piano Man
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