America's obsession with the sport of football and Hollywood's penchant for cultivating inspiring or illuminating stories based on actual events have led to the creation of a special type of sports movie. Audiences have pretty much always cared about the plight and performance of the player on the big screen, but ever since the release of Knute Rocke, All American back in 1940, the coach has become an archetypal staple of the based-on-a-true-story football movie.
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