Sorry, if this has been covered already:
Does anybody know how accurate the portrayal of Texas Stadium was in this movie? I didn't even know that it was around in '76 but in fact it opened in '71. Anyway, it looked awfully modern in the movie; especially the end zones. Any Cowboy fans have something to add here? Thanks.
p.s. Thanks Romo! Go Seahawks!
It was filmed in Texas Stadium wasn't it? If not, it looked good to me.
shareAlmost. The turf is wrong, the endzones are the modern ones and the teams are on the wrong sidelines and in the wrong tunnels. Also, you can see banners from their early 90's SBs.
Other than that...
/Not a Cowboys fan
//Eagles fan
///Old enough to remember stuff about that hated toilet bowl
That's incredibly sloppy not to take down the SB banners. I remember when they shot Major League in Milwaukee (my hometown) and they bent over backwards to remake the stadium into Cleveland Stadium.
shareNot only that but the old turf was the old 'flat-colored' Astroturf. It had no blades of grass. They put in the new 'field-turf' a few years ago and it has the blade of grass just like the movie.
shareWhat I thought was interesting about how the movie depicted Texas Stadium from that era was they remembered the old Frito-Lay and Pepsi logos on the scoreboard. Give them credit for getting that right.
TB-Dave
Well it is understandable that they wouldn't remember to take down the Superbowl banners. I mean it was a movie about the Philadelphia Eagles and it's not like they have any of their own to take down.
shareScrew the Texas Stadium, how'd they recreate the Vet some fantastically. I almost wept...
share"thanks Romo"?
you know the NFL changed the rules about how the balls are handled because the Seahawks gave him a slick ball dont you?
"thanks Romo"?
you know the NFL changed the rules about how the balls are handled because the Seahawks gave him a slick ball dont you?
The Eagles actually come out of the Dallas Cowboy home tunnel and are on the actual Dallas Cowboy home sidelines. This was done due to the sunlight coming in from the top of the stadium and affecting the cameras. You'll notice that on screen Dallas Cowboys have tremendous amount of sun on their sidelines where as the Eagles don't.
The stadium that was used to depict the Eagles 1976 home of Veteran's Stadium was in fact the previous Eagles home stadium from 1958-1970, Franklin Field. Veteran's Stadium had been imploded in 2004 prior to the movie's production. While the shots of the exterior were CGI, the interior shots were filmed at Franklin Field. It can be recognized by the jogging track surrounding the field and bench seating rather than individual seats like at Veteran Stadium.
One area they didn't digitize out were the luxury boxes in the upper deck. They didn't exist in 1976. Also, the numbers on Cowboys were Roger Staubach and Ed Too Tall Jones were wrong with the #2. They were squared off and not slanted. However, other than that, this was one of the most accurate films using NFL jerseys.
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