Something else that I noticed was how that play was highlighted, given in slow motion, perhaps leaving us viewers to ponder if it had something wrong with it.
If that were the case, that point would have brought up in the dialog later.
It was highlighted because it was the play that won the game and gave the school the victory over their rival school.
The fact that Greene has to grab Dillon's jersey to get him to block the other guy emphasizes the difference in their abilities at football. That may have been missed if it were not in slow motion.
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Fowler's knots? Did you say ... fowler's knots?
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Moviegoer Dan
8 years ago
That difference in their abilities would certainly be highlighted, by slowing down what happened in the play, and would also, perhaps, question why Gray Dillon Sr., as well as the guys in the shower were saying that Dillon had played a great game. That was a questionable point in the film for me unless it were all meant to be a lot of feel good talk to Dillon, done to make him feel that he'd done better than just fumbling the ball and almost missing a key block.
I still, however, need to find out if that quarterback to blocker contact were valid in the football rules of that day.
MGD
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Moviegoer Dan
8 years ago
Oddly enough, I DID meet up with a football referee the other week! While in the NYC subway system I noticed that the guy standing next to me was in such a referee's costume and I thus asked him about the rule in question. He indeed told me that it was LEGAL, within the rules. A ball carrier is permitted to direct his blockers and push them forward like "a missile," as he described it.
Now why is that an exception to the other scenarios, which require the player's doing his own work?
MGD
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jgroub
8 years ago
Cool; thanks for posting the "answer".
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
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