The NFL has the 1983 draft, with John Elway, Dan Marino and Jim Kelly, all bound for the Hall of Fame. Football movies have School Ties, which cast Brendan Frasier as a star Jewish quarterback who, despite obvious difficulty gripping a football, is recruited to a starchy New England prep school. His well-sweatered teammates are Chris O'Donnell, Ben Affleck, Cole Hauser and a delightfully jealous, back-stabbing Matt Damon.
Damon plays ugly as a virulent anti-Semite, but the lazy, hacked-up football sequences play even uglier.