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The 12 Best Football Movies Ever Made
Based on a novel by actual Dallas Cowboys player Peter Gent, North Dallas Forty is ostensibly a comedy, with Nick Nolte as Gent’s stand-in Phil Elliott, an aging football player with mounting injuries, an irreverent attitude, and an omnipresent cigarette …