How the NFL imitates art...

Many people say that life imitates art and I tend to agree. I think that this is definitely apparent in the NFL...if you count football movies as art.

Here are a few storylines that would match up with a few of my favorite football movies...

1) The Replacements...scene: the locker room after Andre and Jamal Jackson shoot out the windows of Eddie Martel's Porsche. "Everyone please turn in your handguns..." Plaxico Burress please turn in your handgun. You don't have a permit for it and you carry it into a NYC club. Are you an idiot? Isn't your wife a lawyer? Just makes me think that money makes you stupid.

2) The Replacements (part 2)...the movie was shot in Baltimore at what is not M&T Bank Stadium. The star QB was Shane Falco and closely related is Ravens' QB Joe Flacco. Falco, Flacco...is that too much of a stretch?

3) The Little Giants...scene: they are playing the Cowboys and have to use a trick play to win "the Annexation of Puerto Rico". Today's Miami Dolphins are 7-5 this season after going 1-15 last year...all because the trick play or the Wildcat offense. It worked like it did in high school.

4) Varsity Blues...the star QB Lance Harbor gets hurt and the nerdy backup Jonathon Moxon comes in and leads the team to victory...the Arizona Cardinals were led by one Matt Leinert. Three time All American, Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinert. At the end of 2007 season, Kurt Warner started in place of injured Matt Leinert. Now move to 2008, Warner is one of the top candidates for the NFL MVP.

5) Varsity Blues (part 2)...the new star QB Moxon was dating Harbor's sister, Jules. Cleveland Browns QB (though injured) Brady Quinn has a similar situation, his sister is married to Packer LB AJ Hawk. If you don't know him, AJ Hawk is a badass.

6) Waterboy...an unknown water boy, Bobby Boucher, is turned into one the nation's fiercest linebackers and leads his team to a Bourbon Bowl victory...in 2001, 35 linebackers were taken in the NFL draft. A young man from the University of Arizona was not drafted but signed by the Washington Redskins. Now Antonio Pierce is the starting LB for the NY Giants and helped lead his team to a Super Bowl victory. Oh and he was in the Pro-Bowl...and he knows that of the 35 LBs drafted in 2001, there are only 5 left and he is the only one with a Super Bowl ring.

7)Remember the Titans...this is a little bit of a stretch but a black coach enters a community that is not known for integration (minus the Rooney Rule) and Gerry Bertier was in a car accident, Big Ben wrecked his motorcycle. I am not trying to make light of the situation, but it is one of my favorites.

8) Last Boy Scout, Longest Yard, Gridiron Gang...these have the similar thoughts. The Last Boy Scout; scene: running back runs down the field with the ball, pulls out a pistols, shoots the defenders as he runs by, then shoots himself in the endzone. Enter Plaxico Burress. The Longest Yard and Gridiron Gang are about football in prison or youth prison...enter Burress, Adam Jones, Larry Johnson, etc.

9) Air Bud: Golden Receiver...insert your own Michael Vick joke here. Though I think when he is free in June that he should be signed by the Browns. His fans would be the dog pound...haha.

I think that this covers it...I think that you get my point. If you have not seen these movies, please do, I recommend them. I am still waiting for headlines or stories to copy Necessary Roughness, Any Given Sunday, Wildcats, and Jerry Maguire.