When I was a kid, a long, long time ago, Ernest Borgnine played Vince Lombardi in a made-for-TV movie.
Today, a guy who doesn’t naturally look a whole lot like Lombardi will play the former Packers coach in a theatrical motion picture being development by ESPN Films, Andell Entertainment, and the NFL.
The story focuses on the rivalry between Lombardi and Cowboys coach Tom Landry, and the movie climaxes with the Ice Bowl.
Though DeNiro doesn’t naturally look much like Lombardi, it’s a safe bet that he’ll do whatever he has to do to transform himself into the legendary head coach.
And who knows? Maybe DeNiro’s most well-known line will be replaced by a new one.
Meanwhile, the aforementioned Borgnine is still going strong into his 90s. He not long ago shared his secret with FOX & Friends.
So the Ice Bowl is the money shot?
I can hardly wait
Well going by the Fox and Friends clip it looks like Chickenfoot is going to live until he’s 120!
Deniro as Lombardi during training camp, “Nitschke , you gonna let him get away with that? You gonna let this friggin’ punk get away with that? What’s the matter? What’s the world coming to?”
Actually, as many parents with young children will know, Ernest Borgnine continues to work with Ensign Parker (Tim Conway) from his days on McHale’s Navy. They make frequent appearances on Spongebob Squarepants, where he is Mermaid Man and Conway is Barnacle Boy.
In this version Lombardi strangles Landry with a telephone cord knocking his trademark hat off his head.
“in a theatrical motion picture being development by ESPN”
Being development?
Next time try less crack and more grammar.
Is there a part in the script for Joe Pesci to be the equipment manager, so that one of the players can tell him to go get his shinebox?
Hey Starr, you talkin to me? You talkin to me?
Ernest Borgnine was great in Travis Henry’s & Antonio Cromartie’s favorite sci-fi movie, The Black Hole.
Ed Harris should totally be Landry.
Earnest Borgnine did a great job as Lombardi.
Why not just show that performance?
Lombardi is a facinating character and all football fans should know a few thing about the man the ultimate football trophy is name after.
I sure hope the new film is well written and not like a lot of junk that has come from hollywood since the 80′s.
Even Howard Cossell opened his book discussing Lombardi. It is important for younger people to understand the greatest football coach and his philosphy on life.
The NFL will always remember him fondly.
They need a real idiotic turd of a human to play Landry. Bill Maher is the biggest turd out there.
Lombardi is gonna stare at Landry & say ” Are you lookin at me!”
“Hey ref, You insulted him a little bit, come on. You know you insulted him. Just a little? Come on…COME ON…Did you insult him? DID YOU INSULT HIM?”
I thought they were looking for someone to play Mike Lombardi on NFLN. Ralfie May would be a shoe-in for that part.
Next from ESPN Films…
KORNHEISER: THE MUSICAL
Jon Gruden should play Lombardi…
“Say hello to my little friend!”
The rumor was Travolta for a long time which I could actually see. This will be interesting.
The greatest coach who ever lived.
Bobby D! Should be great.
Leave it to Florio to stretch the story out to include the hobby he shares with Ernie.
I’ve seen the script.
It’s a hilarious romp with lots of dick and fart innuendo.
Ben Stiller is playing Ray Nitschke and Luke Wilson will be playing Bart Starr.
if the movie “climaxes”, won’t it have to be rated XXX?
“They need a real idiotic turd of a human to play Landry.”
Andy Reid’s busy. And morbidly obese.
I agree with Bob Nelson. There just ain’t no place like it. Even my 4 brothers said so two years ago, when I finally made my maiden voyage to Title Town, at the tender age of 45. My brothers are all Cowboy Fans, yet every single one of them told me (w/out a wink, or joke) that the Lambeau Football experience was simply the best they’d ever had. These are brothers who live in Arizona, Washington St. and Minnesota. All were also on their 1st trip to Lambeau. This is all NOT TO MENTION that our Dad of 73 years was with us, on his 33rd trip to Lambeau, interrupted by 2 ‘Nam tours and being stationed all over the world. Needless to say, let everyone know, from far and wide, that football started here and it will end here. THAT is the passion of Green Bay football.
I wonder if DeNiro is master of his domain?
Perfect guy for the role, perfect.
The rumor was Travolta for a long time which I could actually see. This will be interesting.
The rumor was— the “Paint Guy” from Saturday Night Fever.
Famous quote:
“I am going to paint my wife’s ass!’
Or Mr Woodman from Welcome Back Kotter.
They need a real idiotic turd of a human to play Landry. Bill Maher is the biggest turd out there.
Had me going there until you slipped on a pile of retardedness.
Best line is at the end, by the host:
“I just shook his hand !!!!”
Lol
Joe in Toronto, Canada says:
March 9, 2010 5:47 PM
Perfect guy for the role, perfect.
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I couldn’t disagree more. Jerry Stiller could nail it. He looks similar, roughly same height, same build.. And the yelling, it’s spot on.
ESPN messed up. Jerry Stiller should play that part.
“jimicos says:
March 9, 2010 6:36 PM
I couldn’t disagree more. Jerry Stiller could nail it. He looks similar, roughly same height, same build.. And the yelling, it’s spot on.
ESPN messed up. Jerry Stiller should play that part.”
At this point in their careers, I for one am just as likely to pay to see a Jerry Stiller movie as I am a Robert DeNiro one.
Given our Viking friends aren’t very bright, somebody should mention that Lombardi was a winning football coach for the first two Superbowls, something the Vikings never won and recently haven’t even won the last 5 lead up games to the Superbowl.
Just a public service announcement for the nitwits to the west of GB.
Voice of Football says:
March 9, 2010 4:43 PM
“Say hello to my little friend!”
That’s a joke right? If not, you should kill yourself right now. I know very little about movie quotes etc.. but for Christ’s sake, this dickhole is joking. Right?
Make sure you get in Lombardi’s loss to the Eagles!!!
Now I know why there’s that old saying Old Vikings fans never die they just get terrible hand cramps
Shoulda got mickey rooney to play vince, a fat, worthless, POS who was the product of people around him…. Sounds like a perfect fit.
Vike Nasty says:
March 10, 2010 1:29 AM
Shoulda got mickey rooney to play vince, a fat, worthless, POS who was the product of people around him…. Sounds like a perfect fit.
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Wow. Just wow. Sounds like someone got up on the wrong side of ignorant this morning.
Vike Nasty says:
March 10, 2010 1:29 AM
Shoulda got mickey rooney to play vince, a fat, worthless, POS who was the product of people around him…. Sounds like a perfect fit.
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Typical….
JimmySmith says:
March 9, 2010 7:10 PM
Given our Viking friends aren’t very bright, somebody should mention that Lombardi was a winning football coach for the first two Superbowls, something the Vikings never won and recently haven’t even won the last 5 lead up games to the Superbowl.
Just a public service announcement for the nitwits to the west of GB.
===============================You realize how hypocritcal you and your Packer bretheren sound right now , don’t you?
Lomabardi leave and goes to coach the redskins and 40 some years later, you still sing his praises.
Yet you vilify Favre continously for working his way out ?
Wait, it was fine that he went to the Jets…..that’s the justification isn’t it?
As long as he goes where the fans don’t have a problem, it’s ok.
God forbid he play out HIS career the way he wants to.
You people are pathetic!
Clinging to trophies that except for one, you weren’t even alive for.
Biggest hypocritical fanbase on the planet…bar none.
I bet if Lombardi went on to coach the Vikings he’d be a POS too , right?
You want to talk typical….thats it right there in black and white.
Someday you will realize. that in the grand scheme of things, fans do not matter.
Sure, they count on us to buy tickets, but they give 2 shits less about what we think…players or owners.
What is laughable is that you think anyone cares if your upset.
Unless you are a “stockholder of the Packers”.
Then they are laughing at you.
Talk about the biggest heist in America.
The ignorance of the Packer fanbase is truly frightening.
chickenragnar says:
March 10, 2010 11:35 AM
You realize how hypocritcal you and your Packer bretheren sound right now , don’t you?
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As a matter of fact, no, I do not. Lombardi retired and came back two years later. No problem there. And in the course of normal business, Longwell and Sharper go their way too. I have no problem with that. Favre deserves to be vilified by all fans, not just Packer fans, for identifying his teammates as not worthy of him, picking the team he would rather play for, and trying to fool the Packers into letting him go when he had no intention of retiring.
For example, let’s say the Vikings weren’t loaded for bear (as they are) and were a “normal” team…like the 2008 Packers. Adrian Peterson decides to pretend he was retiring so that he could get an unconditional release (strange…why ask for that if you are retiring?) Then he believes that the Bears represent his best chance to win a SuperBowl……not his own teammates….not his own team. You’re OK with that?
Wake up, see it for what it is, and throw your purple-tinted sunglasses away. He’s a Douche with a capital “D”.
…BTW…the “ownership stock” is marketing genius 101. Nobody but the privately owned Packers could even think of it, much less implement it. Purple and gold pennants hanging on the wall are a dime a dozen. If the Vikings coiuld save their franchise by doing the same thing, they would do it so fast your head would spin fast enough to appear to be green and gold.
No, I would not call him a douche.
I can’t blame the guy for wanting out of GB.
The truth is, that when he went to the Jets it was ok, now he went to the Vikes and he’s a turd?
Thanks for reenforcing the fact that 99% of the Gb fanbase is hypocritical. You are mad because he was supposed to retire a Packer.
Players are just supposed to be good soldiers and do what management wants or what the fans want?
This isn’t Russia. Is this russia?
I wouldn’t have a problem with any player doing it. There isn’t anything we can do about it, so why get our panties in a bunch?
I root for the Vikings, not one player.
BTW. it was genius. I’m referring to the turds that come on here and preface thier posts with ” As a packer stockholder” like it means something.
Anyway, he’s a douche now that he’s a Viking.
Once again proving that you and fans like you are playing the jilted love role.
These egomaniacs (owners/players) don’t give 2 shits about you. The sooner you realize it the better.
They don’t care in GB, why should they?
They have 70,000 a ticket waiting list.
Meanwhile, they can just keep herding the cattle in no matter the product on the field(see 70′s -80′s Pack glory years.
Where is the incentive to improve? There is none.
TT is the perfect GM for that team, he makes them money, gives you a 1 in 5 shot in the playoffs and then it’s back to square one.
You tools eat it up like it’s candy.
Hilarious.
chickenragnar says:
March 10, 2010 1:01 PM
Anyway, he’s a douche now that he’s a Viking…
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You’re still missing the point. He’s a douche because he’s a self-centered egomaniacal douche, not because he plays for the Vikings. I feel entitled to bash him as anyone (any fan…not just Packer fans) should, ie; Vick, TO, etc.
“Lomabardi leave and goes to coach the redskins and 40 some years later, you still sing his praises.
Yet you vilify Favre continously for working his way out ?”
Did Lombardi go to a rival? No. Did Lombardi insult the Packer fanbase? No. Did Lombardi stay at the Redskins past two years? No.
What you said ‘chickenragnar’ or whatever your stupid name is, proves that Viking fans are the biggest idiots out there. They think what Lombardi did and what Favre did are comparable when in reality, they are not even close to being the same.
“TT is the perfect GM for that team, he makes them money, gives you a 1 in 5 shot in the playoffs and then it’s back to square one.”
McCarthy, like Childress, has coached in three playoff games.
Dipshit.
No, I’m not missing any point.
You loved the guy the whole time he played for the Packers. He didn’t do what you wanted him too, He went elsewhere and now he’s a douche because he didn’t retire a Packer.
You casnnot rest easy until he is done playing for the Vikings, because, my oh my, what would happen if he won a Super Bowl with them?
My hope would be mass suicides across the Dairyland state.
Jeez,
Sensitive little ViQueens fans are so so sad.
Awwww.
Congrats on choking again, looks like you’ve found a QB to perfectly encapsulate your level of choking. Enjoy, slappies.
chickenragnar says:
March 10, 2010 2:21 PM
My hope would be mass suicides across the Dairyland state.
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Beginning in LaCrosse..
Did Lombardi go to a rival? No. Did Lombardi insult the Packer fanbase?
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More crying from the Packer faithful!
Again another genius keeps making my argument stronger!
Priceless.
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Congrats on choking again, looks like you’ve found a QB to perfectly encapsulate your level of choking.
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Congrats, looks like you have a QB doing the same thing.
Or, was he auditioning for Kampinos’ job?
They didn’t tender him.
51 points given up in a playoff game and you are ripping the Vikes?
par for the course in Packerland. Idiot!
jimicos says:
March 10, 2010 3:03 PM
chickenragnar says:
March 10, 2010 2:21 PM
My hope would be mass suicides across the Dairyland state.
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Yeah there are several Packer fans here I wouldn’t mind seeing gone.
Are you that obtuse? Read the whole post.
It would be mass suicides if the Vikings won the Bowl with Favre.
Way to make yourself look like an ass, then again, you do that on a daily basis.
Carry on.
I would kill myself too if I were a Viking fan and knew that my team is so bad it had to win with “another” team’s QB…he ain’t a Viking – ask him
chickenragnar says:
March 10, 2010 3:56 PM
It would be mass suicides if the Vikings won the Bowl with Favre
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And my aunt would be my uncle if she had balls. If , if, if. Nevada might be coastline someday, if California slips into the ocean.
We already showed you how to predict and speculate accurately, weren’t you listening? Holding out on his natural inclinations to fail until you could just about touch the trophy before he came through (as we predicted,) must have made you choke on your double Whopper. Let me know if you need some addtional predictions, or if you have figured Favre out by now.
“51 points given up in a playoff game and you are ripping the Vikes?”
Having 5 turnovers in a playoff game is just as bad, if not worse, than giving up 51 points.
Ambrose says:
March 10, 2010 5:11 PM
chickenragnar says:
March 10, 2010 3:56 PM
It would be mass suicides if the Vikings won the Bowl with Favre
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And my aunt would be my uncle if she had balls. If , if, if. Nevada might be coastline someday, if California slips into the ocean.
We already showed you how to predict and speculate accurately, weren’t you listening? Holding out on his natural inclinations to fail until you could just about touch the trophy before he came through (as we predicted,) must have made you choke on your double Whopper. Let me know if you need some addtional predictions, or if you have figured Favre out by now.
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Your Aunt and uncle line wasn’t funny the 1st 10,000 times you used it.
Whatever Amblows: You suked this guys dick for 17 years.
Now that he isn’t a packer you want to see him fail, it’s understandable, you are a low life.
chickenragnar says:
March 11, 2010 10:08 AM
Now that he isn’t a Packer you want to see him fail…
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He brought it all upon himself, and yes, he deserves to fail becasue of his calculated actions and ill-intent. It is only unfortunate (for you)that he happens to play for the Vikings now.
Really?
He hurt packer fans feelings……awwwwww
Cry me a river.
chickenragnar says:
March 10, 2010 3:56 PM
Are you that obtuse? Read the whole post.
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Oh, I read the whole post. Then I chose to edit it to my liking.