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A remake of 1974's The Longest Yard, it stars Adam Sandler as a washed-up former professional quarterback who, in exchange for a reduced prison sentence, is forced to assemble a football team to play against the guards.
The film has been remade three times: as the 2001 British film Mean Machine (a shortened version of the title used for the original's UK release), starring Vinnie Jones, the 2005 film remake, The Longest Yard featuring Adam Sandler and Reynolds as coach Nate Scarborough, and as the 2015 Egyptian film Captain Masr.
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A man who played and scored for a non-league football club the day after he was convicted of rape has been sentenced to five years in jail. Barton Rovers forward Kieran Hamilton pleaded guilty to rape in March and previously admitted two counts of sexual activity with a child.
Aaron Josef Hernandez (November 6, 1989 – April 19, 2017) was an American professional football player who was a tight end. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for three seasons with the New England Patriots until his arrest and conviction for the murder of Odin Lloyd.
“80 for Brady” is a film based off a true story of a group of four friends and longtime New England Patriots fans (played by Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno and Sally Fields) in their 80s, who decide they're finally going to watch their favorite team and player, Tom Brady, play in the Super Bowl in person.
Quite a funny scene, actually. "The Longest Yard" was one of Robert Aldrich's most successful films and many claimed it was him "selling out," but viewed 30 years later this really does stand apart from many of the other sports-comedy films of the decade.
The 2005 American sports-comedy film The Longest Yard was filmed in a variety of different locations. The majority of the scenes in this movie were shot primarily at the New Mexico State Penitentiary on Route 14, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Murdock Stadium at El Camino College in Torrance, California.
Parents need to know that this film pushes the edges of the PG-13 rating. It features repeated crude language (including one "f--k" and several uses of the "N" word), frequent violence on and off the football field, including one character burning to death in an explosion, beatings and hard tackles…
In a remake of the 1974 Burt Reynolds film, Sandler played quarterback/prison inmate Paul Crewe alongside a stacked cast of Chris Rock, Nelly, James Cromwell, Tracy Morgan, Terry Crews and even the aforementioned Reynolds.
Dani Alves: Spanish prosecutors seek nine-year prison sentence for ex-Barcelona player in sexual assault trial. Prosecutors are seeking a nine-year prison sentence for Brazilian football star Dani Alves for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman last year, a Spanish court has said.
Dani Alves will remain in jail after a Spanish court denied his request to be freed on bail on Tuesday while a sexual assault accusation against the former Barcelona player is investigated. The court had already denied a similar request by Alves' defence team in February, saying he was a flight risk.
Former Northern Ireland international footballer Paddy McCourt has been found guilty of sexual assault. McCourt of Wheatfield Court in Muff, County Donegal, was accused of inappropriately touching a woman in a city centre bar in Londonderry in January 2022.
A former Leeds United footballer has been jailed for 17 years after raping a 17-year-old girl and taking pictures of the attack on his phone. Stephen Scholes was found guilty of four counts of rape and four counts of assault by penetration in what was described as a "depraved" attack.
Emergency services attempted to revive Espeel with a defibrillator after he collapsed during a game on Saturday - but he was pronounced dead shortly after being taken to hospital.
On 2 July 1994, Escobar was murdered in the aftermath of the 1994 FIFA World Cup, reportedly as retaliation for having scored an own goal which contributed to the team's elimination from the tournament. His murder further tarnished the image of the country internationally.
In the movie's production notes, Segal amends that to "He was quarterback of his Pop Warner team." Burt Reynolds, who has a small part in the remake, told Stuff Magazine that Sandler "never played high school football and he hadn't really thrown a football before 'The Longest Yard.
