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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, October 08, 2004 - 10:01 pm
Best sports movie ever.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 11:36 am
I really want to see this. Everything and everyone in it has gotten really good reviews. So my husband the sports nut would love this?
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 3:05 pm
I guarantee it
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Jen
Member
07-27-2003
| Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 10:28 pm
Saw it tonight. Very good movie. To people not familiar with high school football, I think a lot of it can be shocking. The ending was bittersweet. I think the daughter's question outside Walmart, "Are we going to have to move again?" is telling to what the families of coaches have to deal with. I can't wait to read the book!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 10:31 pm
The book was excellent! I can't wait to see the movie. My oldest boy went to see it yesterday and he's to report to me tomorrow. My son's football team played Permian his senior year and we all had these banners made up that said "No Mo Mojo!" LOL
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 5:51 am
COOL 
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Jen
Member
07-27-2003
| Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 9:16 am
Okay, one thing that I didn't get. What is with Mojo? Not the name of the school...??? Where did it come from?
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 6:48 pm
I saw this movie today. It started out a bit slow but then it picked up and it had a grip on my heart and soul! I will be picking up a copy of the book because I just know that the story will that much richer. Sorry Jan, I don't recall where the term "Mojo" came from and I just check with Egbob and he doesn't recall either.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 7:48 pm
I don't remember either 
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Jen
Member
07-27-2003
| Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 9:00 pm
I thought maybe someone who had read the book would know? Usually more explanation in books...
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 10:33 pm
Jen....I realized that I called you "Jan" and I apologize. My eyes are getting old...LOL! I went to the Permian HS website to try and find out what MOJO means and all I came away with, is that, it's more a saying than a thing. Apparently MOJO is equated to the football team. I have a girlfriend who went to Midland HS and I'll try to remember and ask her about MOJO.
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Jen
Member
07-27-2003
| Monday, October 11, 2004 - 7:45 am
Thanks and no problem! I can't believe that it was so significant in the movie and to the team, yet there wasn't any explanation, or at least one that I picked up on.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, October 11, 2004 - 10:14 am
Mojo is their power, their strength, they sort have equated it to the whippin they give their opponents.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, October 11, 2004 - 11:47 am
My dad was a high school football coach in Texas but we were lucky - by the time I was old enough to remember we settled in the Dallas area and didn't move (although my parents moved around a lot when they were first married). High school football is almost a religion in Texas. I can't wait for the movie to come out on DVD so my Dad can see it (he can't go to movies anymore).
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, October 11, 2004 - 1:18 pm
Yeah, I think the football coach down here makes as much as the friggin' superintendent, lol ...
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - 9:09 am
It (the pay) wasn't that way when my Dad was a coach...LOL! I can tell you from personal experience that you have to develop selective deafness at an early age. I can remember my mother admonishing me to "not listen" when people in the stands would criticize my dad. She would sit there at every game and smile and cheer for the team, be it good or bad, and support my dad. She would never reply to any criticism that went on around her. She was a model coach's wife! She loves to tell the story that when they started in one little town that never had football before he not only coached the team but she had to teach the cheerleaders how to cheer for football...LOL!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - 9:46 am
LOL, Roxip! Oh my heavens, the football coach down here is second in command only to God, I think.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - 6:28 pm
The Packers need a coach.
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Carlpsmom
Member
01-03-2004
| Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - 3:05 pm
KL, you got that right! lol
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - 4:44 pm
Every time I watch any football game I'll think of this movie.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Thursday, October 14, 2004 - 8:31 am
This movie was really well done. I felt like I was actually watching a game, not just a bunch of MTV-style quick cuts meant to be football plays. I even found myself cheering out loud a few times, like I do at home in front of my TV. It's nice to see Billy Bob in a quiet role. He really is a fine actor.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 12:47 pm
DH and I saw this Saturday night, and I loved it. It was very well casted. What I couldn't believe is that Lucas Black (Mike Winchell) was the little boy from Crazy in Alabama, Sling Blade, and All the Pretty horses. Wow did he grow up. He's a hotty. DH is not a football man, he didn't play in highschool, nor was he a spectator, so he didn't "get it". But I was very very involved. I understood and I was on the edge of my seat. Bravo to Billy Bob, he was excellent in this role. Bravo to Tim McGraw, who knew he could act so well.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Saturday, March 12, 2005 - 10:01 pm
just saw this on dvd and i definitely want to buy it now and get the book - forget the overall sports/movie lover (fanatic) in me, this was all about the real issues in life and texas football and boy can it be an intense movie. i was even clapping at plays at the end. i don't think it was a bittersweet end, i think it was THE PERFECT ending, and just reenforced but i always believed in life: to have confidence in yourself and be able to hold your head up high because you know you did the best you could in that moment. didnt even recognize tim mcgraw until the credits, am shocked he was that good that i totally missed who he was. (as well as derek luke)
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 10:27 am
We watched this movie on the bus ride home from one of our meets, and I didn't get into it. It was probably because a couple of bus rides earlier, we watched another football movie, where a guy's eye got squished out on the field and some guy snorted cocaine off of a woman's breast. I was thinking this movie would be the same type of thing. Plus, I was really tired, so I slept through the last half, waking up only at the end. :P
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 10:30 am
neko - this is NOT just another football movie so if you can see it again, i suggest you take the gamble. it has a great message and is very real.
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