@johnmichaelfoy1 It did indeed refer to a 40-man roster. Google "north dallas forty man roster" and the first result is a link to a preview of the book that mentions "40-man roster."
'Every time I call it a game, you call it a business and every time I call it a business you call it a game.' That's every fucking management in every job, shifty crooks.
@ClintDarden Great clip! This film is way too profound to condense it all into 8 minutes, but good job anyway! This film is as much about how corporations operate as it is about football, perhaps more so. Thanks for posting this! (Yeah, I miss the scene in the whirlpool bath where Mac Davis tells about the "purple poontang" drink and says "I'm a philosopher. I like to mingle with the little people!")
Everybody should read this novel, too, it's fantastic, much grittier than the movie (although I love the movie as well). Also read everything else by Peter Gent (The Conquering Heroes, North Dallas After 40, The Great Texas Celebrity Turkey Trot, The Francise, etc.) that you can get your hands on. He is an absolutely amazing author. I read NDF in 1978 when I was 14, and it changed my life forever. Very few novels can do that.
ok huddle up if the line runs back i throw the bark the wr catch the spark yip yip touch down brown spining in the town hot dog c mon sexy catch up catch up red fro over your halo reach for the sun like football fu chop a kick slap pads back in a white kight rider rolling like melo eating dorito flake get that flake master plummer frozen big bad bones boy panama jack rack o has the match fire up the funk b why me you see miller hitter like ruth shoes
Im From Ireland,Ive visited Houston,Chicago,Las Vegas And lived In New York..I started watchin NFL In 1993 Remember The Cowboys With Troy Akman and Emmitt Smith...Great memorys..Is Big Terry Bradshaw Still Doin Fox Sports on Sun...We only Get NBC On Sun Nights...He Is A Class Act...Very Funny Man...Well Ive Seen All the good films about American Football..Longest Yard,Rudy,Remenber The Titans,Any Given Sun but N-Dallas 40 is simply The Dogs Bollocks!! IE the best NFL Film ever made...Up Armagh!!
And you know what's probably the greatest intro ever made for a movie? It was the lead up showing Nolte trying to get up in the morning, reliving every hit from yesterday's game, then thinking about the 1 touchdown he finally got to win the game...then he relaxes in the tub, trying to savior the moment...then Job-Bob comes charging in with a shotgun blasting into the ceiling...LMFAO!
Greatest...NFL Film....EVER! I'm a die-hard Cowboy fan, always have been and always will...but I don't doubt one minute that this was what it was like for Peter Gent during his time with Da Boys. Any fan of football should love this film. The only other football film even close to this is The Longest Yard (the original, not that new shit).
And you even have my favorite seen where Joe-Bob's partner tears the asst. coach a new asshole! CLASSIC!
My favorite scene is when the preacher prays before the game in the locker room Right after the prayer, Matusak yells out "let's kill those cocksuckers"........lol
Big business this football is! I think the game has changed from the 1970s and today could not compare.. The players today are company men I'll give you an example, Donovan Mcnabb.
The actor at 0:25 who played the lineman Stallings was Jim Boeke. He was a teacher at my high school in Orange County in the 1980's. Former pro with the Rams.
I love this movie. In my top five sports movies of all time. I just started reading the book. Matusak was the shit. That was great acting. RIP BIG JOHN.
Movie and book shows that you can do ANYTHING as long as you are crucial to the team, you will have a job. As soon as your value goes below the cost of having you, bye!! same today as back then. Look how many NFL'ers do things that are not even imagined in the book, yet remain in the league..
Starting at 6:00 minutes Phil Elliot ( Nick Nolte ) asks what I think is one of the most important questions adding to the climax of the movie. After all that he's endured and given to the team and the sport...he asks/pleads with his head coach ( to search his conscience) because to Phil the game he plays means so much to him. He loves it, he's good at it, it's his lively hood....... He asks.... How can you take this away from me? How can you do this? A metaphor for lifes struggles
As dated as this film may be it remains the greatest football movie ever made. My biggest question however is still unanswered. Seth Maxwell was clearly Don Meredith, who was not only retired from the NFL when this was filmed, he still looked young enough to be the aging NFL QB that the role called for, but above all, HE WAS PURSUING AN ACTING CAREER AND ALREADY HAD SEVERAL CREDITS!
Why the fuck did they choose a country western singer turned first time actor to play the role over the real deal?
I have to disagree with that statement in 2 parts.
1. The movie was more critical of "Landry" than the team itself.
2. Meredith CONSTANTLY berated Landry when he was on MNF. It was an ongoing battle with Cosell every time they broadcast a Cowboys game because Howard was always singing the praises of Landry. I recall one exchange that got so vicious that it ended with Meredith saying, "Well Howard-for those of us that actually PLAYED this game.." then he finished his criticism of Landry.
The only possible reason I've seen for Meredith's absence in the film still isn't very convincing. During the hype associated with the release of NDF as a movie, Meredith's only comment that I recall seeing was a slam on the author, Peter Gent. Meredith was quoted as saying, "If I'd have known he was that good I'd have thrown to him more often."
chicken-shit cocksuckers!!...great scene. loved this movie...real. raw. true to like nfl experience....it really is a "business"--and thats sad.......
I agree as well. Excellent angle on Pro Football - sports in general. The NCAA is even worse in their hypocracy. Typical, with ESPN, anything before 1979 is not relevant since they did not exist. Or if it pertains anything not associated with Boston or New York sports.
I agree. I doubt if real movie that put you behind the scenes could be made today. The NFL is much bigger and has a much tighter control of its image.
Any Given Sunday my ass!!!! North Dallas Forty was and is the shit. B.A. Smithers (Tom Landry) Emmitt (Tex Schram) and The Owner played by Steve Forestt( Clint Murchison). OF course Mack Davis played Dandy Don and Nick Nolte was Pete Gent.
The only NFL type show that was better was the ESPN produced "Playmakers." Just like ND Forty, it showed us all what really w ent on in the NFL. It was so good that the NFL made ESPN shut it down.
Anywho, like your ass, no one really cares about what goes on in professional sports. Crooked refs, high school kids that can't read and pills weren't invented months ago. If a show like Playmakers, shines light on the "real" side of sports, in a dramatic sense, maybe folks are watching to much tv, to be taking such a subject seriously. In the real world, guys like Earl Campbell and Jerome Bettis can't even ge out the bed.
Ya' know, I don't understand your venom. Earl Campbell and Jerome Bettis chose to play the game. Bill Stansfield, EJ Holub, and other guys before them left the game in worse shape and I'm sure some one told 'em. But "The Bus" and "The Tyler Rose" still chose to suit 'em up every Sunday.
Were they used as kids and passed on because they were good? Yeah, but that's were mom and dad step in to make sure "johnny" can read.
The NFL use players then throws them away.
MrRockjock13 3 months ago
Horrible editing. Why did you do that? You show some of the best scenes but you edit half of it out. Great movie though, thanks for posting.
kamobile 4 months ago
RIP Peter Gent.
steveconn 5 months ago
Rest in Peace Peter Gent....
MrGGAllin 5 months ago
What does the title North Dallas Forty mean? Why forty? Team name in movie was the Bulls. More than 40 guys on team. Anyone know?
johnmichaelfoy1 5 months ago
@johnmichaelfoy1 It did indeed refer to a 40-man roster. Google "north dallas forty man roster" and the first result is a link to a preview of the book that mentions "40-man roster."
toplonghorn 4 months ago
Nick Nolte..was Lance Rentzel in that movie..........
ginzod 7 months ago
RIP GD SPRADLIN
mfbinc 7 months ago
Apparently my old PE teacher is in this movie. *mindblown*
MastaChief345 10 months ago
'Every time I call it a game, you call it a business and every time I call it a business you call it a game.' That's every fucking management in every job, shifty crooks.
MoveOnSoulClub 11 months ago
John Matuszak's speech is the greatest!
MrGoldmember777 11 months ago
The unofficial You Tube clip of Super Bowl 45!!! Thanks for posting it!!!
bigswallow2 1 year ago
all the good shit's been cut out! You must have got this off t.v. LOL
aknowneemus 1 year ago
@aknowneemus I made this...my favorite clips.
ClintDarden 1 year ago
@ClintDarden sorry, i thought the network removed the cuss words.
thanks for posting..
aknowneemus 1 year ago
@ClintDarden Great clip! This film is way too profound to condense it all into 8 minutes, but good job anyway! This film is as much about how corporations operate as it is about football, perhaps more so. Thanks for posting this! (Yeah, I miss the scene in the whirlpool bath where Mac Davis tells about the "purple poontang" drink and says "I'm a philosopher. I like to mingle with the little people!")
LesbianVampireLover 10 months ago
Everybody should read this novel, too, it's fantastic, much grittier than the movie (although I love the movie as well). Also read everything else by Peter Gent (The Conquering Heroes, North Dallas After 40, The Great Texas Celebrity Turkey Trot, The Francise, etc.) that you can get your hands on. He is an absolutely amazing author. I read NDF in 1978 when I was 14, and it changed my life forever. Very few novels can do that.
jerico641 1 year ago
ok huddle up if the line runs back i throw the bark the wr catch the spark yip yip touch down brown spining in the town hot dog c mon sexy catch up catch up red fro over your halo reach for the sun like football fu chop a kick slap pads back in a white kight rider rolling like melo eating dorito flake get that flake master plummer frozen big bad bones boy panama jack rack o has the match fire up the funk b why me you see miller hitter like ruth shoes
BeatBoxingBryan 1 year ago
Im From Ireland,Ive visited Houston,Chicago,Las Vegas And lived In New York..I started watchin NFL In 1993 Remember The Cowboys With Troy Akman and Emmitt Smith...Great memorys..Is Big Terry Bradshaw Still Doin Fox Sports on Sun...We only Get NBC On Sun Nights...He Is A Class Act...Very Funny Man...Well Ive Seen All the good films about American Football..Longest Yard,Rudy,Remenber The Titans,Any Given Sun but N-Dallas 40 is simply The Dogs Bollocks!! IE the best NFL Film ever made...Up Armagh!!
TheFeet1974 1 year ago
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Warrenles 1 year ago
dang, you cut too much stuff
ram29jackson 1 year ago
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Warrenles 1 year ago
roid rage at 4:50
deltapunk21 1 year ago
And you know what's probably the greatest intro ever made for a movie? It was the lead up showing Nolte trying to get up in the morning, reliving every hit from yesterday's game, then thinking about the 1 touchdown he finally got to win the game...then he relaxes in the tub, trying to savior the moment...then Job-Bob comes charging in with a shotgun blasting into the ceiling...LMFAO!
21stcenturyfilmdocs 1 year ago 2
Greatest...NFL Film....EVER! I'm a die-hard Cowboy fan, always have been and always will...but I don't doubt one minute that this was what it was like for Peter Gent during his time with Da Boys. Any fan of football should love this film. The only other football film even close to this is The Longest Yard (the original, not that new shit).
And you even have my favorite seen where Joe-Bob's partner tears the asst. coach a new asshole! CLASSIC!
21stcenturyfilmdocs 1 year ago
Greatest football movie ever!!
jkoff76 1 year ago
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Warrenles 1 year ago
My favorite scene is when the preacher prays before the game in the locker room Right after the prayer, Matusak yells out "let's kill those cocksuckers"........lol
floBflo2020 1 year ago 2
Wait 'till you see the weird part. haha Good movie.
whocares780 1 year ago
3:34 - 5:05 epic scene
AvEryBadApPLe 1 year ago
Big business this football is! I think the game has changed from the 1970s and today could not compare.. The players today are company men I'll give you an example, Donovan Mcnabb.
antblue363 1 year ago
This movie was messed up!
LMFAO! Mac Davis was GREAT in this role! Why the heck hadn't he made any other films like this one?!
Arkady63 2 years ago
The actor at 0:25 who played the lineman Stallings was Jim Boeke. He was a teacher at my high school in Orange County in the 1980's. Former pro with the Rams.
mcraycroft 2 years ago
I love this movie. In my top five sports movies of all time. I just started reading the book. Matusak was the shit. That was great acting. RIP BIG JOHN.
ortleyman 2 years ago
This movie ruled! John Matuszak telling off his coach in the best way possible. LOL!!. RIP John... Movie is a classic
ericstinger 2 years ago
what a cheap fukin shot that was in gym! would have gotten up and kicked his fukin ass!!!
cowboysfan1964 2 years ago
great job tooz , RIP.
Sexiraina1993 2 years ago
Movie and book shows that you can do ANYTHING as long as you are crucial to the team, you will have a job. As soon as your value goes below the cost of having you, bye!! same today as back then. Look how many NFL'ers do things that are not even imagined in the book, yet remain in the league..
usmctanks1 2 years ago
I love it at the end when he says it's time to put away childish things. And the symbolism at the end when he refuses to catch the ball
tonymcheezee 2 years ago
Starting at 6:00 minutes Phil Elliot ( Nick Nolte ) asks what I think is one of the most important questions adding to the climax of the movie. After all that he's endured and given to the team and the sport...he asks/pleads with his head coach ( to search his conscience) because to Phil the game he plays means so much to him. He loves it, he's good at it, it's his lively hood....... He asks.... How can you take this away from me? How can you do this? A metaphor for lifes struggles
tonymcheezee 2 years ago
right after the first scene coach cuts offensive lineman Stallings...pretty bad
rodrigjr 2 years ago
As dated as this film may be it remains the greatest football movie ever made. My biggest question however is still unanswered. Seth Maxwell was clearly Don Meredith, who was not only retired from the NFL when this was filmed, he still looked young enough to be the aging NFL QB that the role called for, but above all, HE WAS PURSUING AN ACTING CAREER AND ALREADY HAD SEVERAL CREDITS!
Why the fuck did they choose a country western singer turned first time actor to play the role over the real deal?
rogerrodd 2 years ago
Don Meredith was never going to be a part of a movie critical of the Dallas Cowboys.
justklsi 2 years ago
I have to disagree with that statement in 2 parts.
1. The movie was more critical of "Landry" than the team itself.
2. Meredith CONSTANTLY berated Landry when he was on MNF. It was an ongoing battle with Cosell every time they broadcast a Cowboys game because Howard was always singing the praises of Landry. I recall one exchange that got so vicious that it ended with Meredith saying, "Well Howard-for those of us that actually PLAYED this game.." then he finished his criticism of Landry.
rogerrodd 2 years ago
Part 2:
The only possible reason I've seen for Meredith's absence in the film still isn't very convincing. During the hype associated with the release of NDF as a movie, Meredith's only comment that I recall seeing was a slam on the author, Peter Gent. Meredith was quoted as saying, "If I'd have known he was that good I'd have thrown to him more often."
rogerrodd 2 years ago
Mac Davis got good reviews for his performance.
BufordStone 2 years ago
Davis did get good reviews-for a C&W singer in an acting debut. That still doesn't explain why they didn't want the real deal.
rogerrodd 2 years ago
@rogerrodd Meredith was born in Mt. Vernon, Texas. Mac Davis? Lubbock, Texas.
roquey44 9 months ago
@roquey44 No diss but I wish that I could figure out how your reply answered my question. Did I miss something?
rogerrodd 9 months ago
Nick Nolte=one of the most underrated actors EVER!
lurch321 2 years ago 2
Grande Nick!
overpower68 2 years ago
nowhere near how the book went
michaelr50 2 years ago
chicken-shit cocksuckers!!...great scene. loved this movie...real. raw. true to like nfl experience....it really is a "business"--and thats sad.......
rocketman6464 2 years ago
Best "Sports Movie" of All-time! Any given Sunday is a joke compared to this flick.
toddcayce 2 years ago 2
I agree. ESPN's Sportsnation had a poll on the greatest football movies "North Dallas Forty" was not on the list. A pox on them.
ebf1957 2 years ago 3
I agree as well. Excellent angle on Pro Football - sports in general. The NCAA is even worse in their hypocracy. Typical, with ESPN, anything before 1979 is not relevant since they did not exist. Or if it pertains anything not associated with Boston or New York sports.
Phunkville 2 years ago
Opps - HYPOCRISY -
Phunkville 2 years ago
Don't forget Los Angeles.
ebf1957 2 years ago
I agree. I doubt if real movie that put you behind the scenes could be made today. The NFL is much bigger and has a much tighter control of its image.
dteg32 1 year ago
great flick.....love it when nick nolte pees in the whirlpool!! lol....
rocketman6464 2 years ago 3
Why all the editing?
toddcayce 2 years ago
Greatest movie ever made on the NFL!
niteodead 2 years ago 10
Before Any Given Sunday, there was North Dallas Forty.
AvEryBadApPLe 2 years ago
Any Given Sunday my ass!!!! North Dallas Forty was and is the shit. B.A. Smithers (Tom Landry) Emmitt (Tex Schram) and The Owner played by Steve Forestt( Clint Murchison). OF course Mack Davis played Dandy Don and Nick Nolte was Pete Gent.
The only NFL type show that was better was the ESPN produced "Playmakers." Just like ND Forty, it showed us all what really w ent on in the NFL. It was so good that the NFL made ESPN shut it down.
roquey44 2 years ago 8
Anywho, like your ass, no one really cares about what goes on in professional sports. Crooked refs, high school kids that can't read and pills weren't invented months ago. If a show like Playmakers, shines light on the "real" side of sports, in a dramatic sense, maybe folks are watching to much tv, to be taking such a subject seriously. In the real world, guys like Earl Campbell and Jerome Bettis can't even ge out the bed.
AvEryBadApPLe 2 years ago
Ya' know, I don't understand your venom. Earl Campbell and Jerome Bettis chose to play the game. Bill Stansfield, EJ Holub, and other guys before them left the game in worse shape and I'm sure some one told 'em. But "The Bus" and "The Tyler Rose" still chose to suit 'em up every Sunday.
Were they used as kids and passed on because they were good? Yeah, but that's were mom and dad step in to make sure "johnny" can read.
roquey44 2 years ago
@roquey44 Noth Dallas 40 is the best NFL movie EVER MADE.
MrRockjock13 3 months ago
Just a great, great film...
sndnfry 2 years ago 3