REBROADCAST: Game Film - Animals Playing Football

The Football Odyssey with Aron Harris

This week's episode is a re-broadcast of Game Film, a podcast devoted to reviewing sports movies. Hosts Os Davis and Aron Harris review three films of all sorts. They talk classics going back to the 1920s and contemporary flicks from the 2020s; well-known classics and nearly unknown gems; dramas, documentaries, love stories, and comedies; films of fandom and of playing the game … and all about some aspect of the games we love. In this episode, Game Film focuses on the incredible Hollywood sub-genre of movies about animals playing football – professional, college and youth league. Hosts Os Davis and Aron Harris take a look at: • Gus (1976) – NFL laughingstocks the California Atoms employ the services of a Yugoslavian mule on the field, not to mention a murderer’s row of 1970s TV sitcom dads; • Bonzo Goes to College (1952) – the second in the mighty Bonzo movie franchise has the genius chimpanzee first whiffing on an easy question about Joe DiMaggio’s batting average and ultimately quarterbacking the college’s loser team to victory; and • Air Bud 2: Golden Receiver (1998) – in which a dog retires from basketball to take up football and hang out with a tween, his widowed mother and a serial killer-looking new BF. Check out Game Films where you get your podcast. https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/ https://twitter.com/FootballOdyc https://www.instagram.com/thefootballodyssey/ https://sportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/