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I've never watched the show, but that just sounds hilarious. If you're going to base a show around a football team, have someone who knows something about football tell you when a scene is terrible. That's always bothered me about sports movies, especially serious ones that purport to be something more. I can handle a cartoonish game in Slap Shot because nothing about that movie is supposed be serious, but I really disliked the movie version FNL because I couldn't believe that there was an actual real football team at the center of the action.

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Dudd,

1. 22 episodes and there is less than 25 minutes of football minutes in the entire season--the bulk of which is in the first and last episodes.
2. There are many episodes a football game isn't shown.

Don't compare it to sports movies b/c it isn't fair to say that it is a sports show. Part of my apprehension before watching this show was b/c of watching FNL the movie, it was silly, overacted, strayed really far from the book and wasn't congruent with the book. The movie was just really bad. This show doesn't attempt to do the same thing, it isn't a sophisticated Varsity Blues.