Went to a rattlers playoff game when in PHX several years ago. A lot of fun in person.
American Underdog-Kurt Warner story
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I remember going to an af2 game back when the Quad Cities had a team. Not gonna lie, it was kind of fun watching them win a game 103-3.
It’s got a real sterile look to it. Like Hallmark spent double the budget on one of their movies.
Did he have any real adversity in his life? Other than just having to work his way up.
Anybody see this yet? I was really impressed. It wasn't as cheesy or religious as I thought it would be. It seemed really well done and not a low budget movie by any means.
The one issue I did have with it is it shows a rodeo being held before his first arena game. It shows them in their home jerseys, I've been to Vets Auditorium numerous times and I'm pretty sure you can't fit a rodeo and an arena game into the same building simultaneously.
The one issue I did have with it is it shows a rodeo being held before his first arena game. It shows them in their home jerseys, I've been to Vets Auditorium numerous times and I'm pretty sure you can't fit a rodeo and an arena game into the same building simultaneously.
The reviews were pretty high on this movie, which surprised me because the previews didn't look good.
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Hoping to see it sometime. I think k the first year I ever played fantasy football I drafted Trent Green. When he got hurt I added Warner just as a speculative add and well he turned out to be the top scoring QB that year so he's probably the luckiest add I've ever had in all my years playing fantasy FB
He got one of my kids interested in sports just watching him so I thank him for that.
I don’t think he has ever portrayed himself as a saint. Not sure if the movie does that.
I enjoy him as an analyst too. So many of the talking heads make me want to hurl things at the TV.
I don’t think he has ever portrayed himself as a saint. Not sure if the movie does that.
I enjoy him as an analyst too. So many of the talking heads make me want to hurl things at the TV.
It does not. It makes him very, very human.
Saw it a second time because my daughter wanted to see it and the only real complaint I have is that they turned Terry Allen and his HS coach into one person but that's pretty minor. It's a fun movie.
Also made UNI look kind of like a Wartburg type school with the field and such. Also I felt a little more time could have been spent on his early career. He was a good high school QB with not much recruiting interest. Overall a good movie that I would see again.
I did lol at the gas can they used in one seen. Looks like it was just bought this year.
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Most celebrities are not who they are made out to be, but is he supposed to throw out a **** you during interviews to correct the persona? Not one of us is perfect, and people do change over time.
My claim to fame regarding Warner is I lived in the same house he did the year he blew up with the Rams when I was at UNI. He lived there a few years before I did but my bedroom was the same one he used. Cool story huh 
Regis HS in Cedar Rapids, with minimal D1 athletes produced its' first 30 yrs in existence, somehow produced two of the biggest rags-to-riches/underdog stories in professional sports the last 25 years
Warner and PGA's Zach Johnson--a 2-time Major-winner, wasn't even the #1 golfer @ Regis, nor @ Drake
Not sure what Warner was like 25 years ago--- but Johnson and Kurt basically renounced their Catholicism years ago and are born-again Christians, and both 'walk the walk'
People just like tearing people like that down at every opportunity (and I loathe organized religion)
Exactly.
I know a family in Waterloo that lost their son to a horrible genetic disease. Kurt did some Make-a-Wish stuff with them and then they got a note and a check for $10,000 from Kurt and Brenda after he passed. I mean, if that doesn't tell you who the guy really is...
It's not really that religious. I went in thinking it would be one of those movies on Lifetime with religious themes and it's not at all. Yeah, they mention God a few times, but it's not overly annoying.
I don’t think his life story is one one of great adversity, just one of perseverance. All the stories don’t have to fit the same narrative.
