In the Depression-ish era, college was the primary lens through which football was shown on the silver screen. There's a billion movies from the 1920's through the 1950's about life's various foibles as seen through a talking mule that also plays linebacker, or a star quarterback getting messed up with small-time crooks and (almost) losing his fiancée to a stockbroker with a pencil mustache.
They're almost uniformly terrible (except Horse Feathers, which rules), but they were weird and interesting and also: at least they exist. Football movies nowadays (when they are actually made) are mostly some flavor of a predictably weepy underdog story, or, conversely, some sinister drama with players injecting steroids at a drug party for bad kids.
Anyway, as college athletic departments look for alternative revenue streams to help supplement paying players, the Eleven Dubcast has a humble suggestion: more college football movies. Make 'em weird, make 'em cheap, but just make 'em! Make the WHAC Hollywood East! Who says no?!?
- Ads on uniforms probably aren't coming soon, but I've lost all sense of what actually constitutes "soon" anymore, so who knows
- Some of these pre-Code football movies seem like absolute bangers
- Ask Us Anything, which you can do by sending us questions to dubcast@elevenwarriors.com, has a culinary question about Columbus
- C.J. Stroud is a Good Guy (according to the media)
- R.I.P. to a legend
And that'll do it for the Dubcast this week, watch the show now on YouTube above or visit our Transistor page for links to other listening options such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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