The Replacements (2000): QB Keanu and His Rag-Tag Team

Stories From the Gridiron Month 🏈 continues this week with 2000's The Replacements, directed by Howard Deutch. Mike and Steven called an audible this week, replacing John Frankenheimer's terror-at-the-Super-Bowl thriller Black Sunday with this bit of lighter fare. It's a familiar story of a rag-tag group of talented players, assembled from different walks of life, to come together and grow as a team—led by quarterback Keanu Reeves. The guys dig into the history of the NFL strike on which the film is based, where this falls in the filmography of Gene Hackman and Reeves, plus much more.
In the news segment:

• AI and Orson Welles
• Graham Greene

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STILL TO COME ON STORIES OF THE GRIDIRON MONTH:
Wildcats (1986, dir. Michael Ritchie)Any Given Sunday (1999, dir. Oliver Stone)Him (2025, dir. Justin Tipping)
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