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...Five years is the common hitch for a Nebraska football player, and there seem to be more of them than cornstalks. None of which depresses the local citizenry, a delegation of whom rises on Thursdays before dawn, sometimes 350 strong, to attend a 6:30 a.m. breakfast, with a pep band, where the special guests may be the secretaries of the football coaches and the door prize a home-baked cherry...
High schools and colleges can help eliminate some of the negative implications of the games. Stop holding pep rallies which incite the fans to kill that Saturday's foe. Field hockey, volleyball and baseball teams don't seem to have any trouble getting psyched for their games without dancing in a gymnasium full of bunners and screaming fans. Stop charging so much for tickets and soaking the television networks for all they are worth. Using the excuse that football is expensive and has to pay for itself and because it is profitable and must support the rest of the athletic...
They served turkey for dinner in the Union on Thursday before the Yale game. Somebody had organized a pep rally--the only one I have ever seen at Harvard. The stuffing was bland; the music was loud. Spirit was high...
Cruise's latest film All the Right Moves--the saga of Stefan Djordjevic's attempt to work his way out of poverty through high-school football--confirms this hope. While All the Right Moves has the potential ingredients of a trash film--the high school setting, the football pep rallies, the steamy sex scenes--it is clearly more than an insipid adolescent anatomy lesson. In fact, because so much of the film deals with larger, more universal themes than the Ampipe High School Bulldogs' unsuccessful attempts to "kick the other team's ass," All the Right Moves has little trouble...
Something in the painful irony of the team captain getting up and leading a pep rally moments after he has found out his girlfriend is pregnant strikes us as tragic. Yet it is precisely this piercing blend of pain and pity that gives the movie its real substance. Time after time we see this combination when Stefan's brother plans to go out and "get shitfaced" to forget his unemployment woes, and again when the coach eggs on his players by telling them "We re nothing more to them [the other team] than Dagos, Polacks, and Spicks." Undoubtedly, the movie...