History Film / TheReplacements2000

* HarsherInHindsight: The fact that Shane sustained 3 concussions during his college football career is a throwaway line. Later, he gets knocked down by his own team member and is disoriented for a few seconds, which is played for laughs. Within a decade after the movie's release, however, research on CTE among NFL players demonstrated that multiple concussions were doing permanent brain damage. These findings led the league to introduce [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concussions_in_American_football new concussion protocols]] which would prevent Shane from returning to play if he were disoriented, and would permanently disqualify him if he had 4 diagnosed concussions.

* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse. Falco choked and cost Ohio State the Sugar Bowl. Every person he meets brings it up within five seconds of meeting him.
-->'''Falco:''' Didn’t ''anybody'' have anything better to do that day?

* DudeNotFunny: In-universe example. In the bar, Martel starts making fun of the replacement players' deaf team member. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome They do not take it well.]]

* InsultBackfire: Overlapping with CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming:

--> '''[=McGinty=]''': Listen up! This time tomorrow... The strike will be officially over. Now Dallas has made a big mistake out there tonight-- They haven't been afraid of you. And they ''should be'', because you have a powerful weapon working for you. There is no ''tomorrow'' for you. And that makes you all '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Very.]]''' '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Dangerous.]]''' '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis People!]]'''

-->"The great thing about being deaf is that it’s easy to ignore assholes like you."

A [[RagTagBunchOfMisfits rag-tag group of semi-pro and amateur football players]] are collected by an esoteric former coach for one last shot at the big time. Thanks to a football strike by dozens of pro players, and in some cases (Washington, notably, the team of focus in the movie) entire teams, replacements are hired to keep the team's standings intact 'till the end of the season... they turn out to be even more awesome than the actual team they're replacing.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: Preacher quotes part of Ezekial 21:31 whilst in the middle of a bar fight.

* ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: After the BarBrawl, the coach tells the team that if anything like it happens again, there will be no place on the team for any of them...but for the record, he wishes he was there to see Martel get his ass kicked.

-->'''Andre Jackson:''' "We ain't losin' this game."

-->'''Jumbo:''' "Nan desu ka?!!!!"

* BigGame: The Sentinels' playoff hopes are pinned on a critical game with Dallas at the end of the season. And all of Dallas's pro players have crossed the picket line.

* BullSeeingRed: In football practice, the quarterback wears a red jersey as an indicator that the practicing defensive players aren't to tackle him. Bateman forgets this and savagely tackles Falco several times in practice, saying he's like a bull seeing red. Falco tells him "Red means stop!".

* EasterEgg / BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In jail, during the song and dance number, Shane yells 'Adrian!'.

* FanDisservice: ''Do not'' bring a TV camera into the locker room with these players. You will regret it. "Ole, ole, ole, ole!"
* ForeShadowing: Coach [=McGinty=] tells Falco, after the latter changes a play to a hand-off when he expects a blitz coming, thus losing the game, that 'winners always want the ball when the game is on the line'. In the final minute of the last game of the movie, we get this exchange;
-->'''[=McGinty=]''': "What's it gonna be Shane?"\\
'''Falco''': "I want the ball."\\
'''[=McGinty=]''': "Winners always do."

-->'''Nigel''': ''(beckons a really big guy)'' C'mon! C'mon! C'mon, STOP! ''(kicks the guy in the crotch)'' [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Let's play football, bitch.]] ''(kicks the guy in the forehead)''

** Like Shane's reaction to the same player tackling him over and over; Let the guy through the defending line, then drill him in the face with the football. It works.

* InsultBackfire: Overlapping with CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming;
-->'''Martel''': "Nobody can beat Dallas with these losers."\\
'''Falco''': "I can."
** Martel seems to live to set himself up for these;
-->'''Martel''': "This doesn't change anything, Falco! I'm an all-pro quarterback, I've got ''two'' Super Bowl rings! And you'll never be anything more than a replacement player."
-->'''Shane''': "Yeah. Yeah, I can live with that."
** "Deaf" does not mean "oblivious."

-->'''Falco''': "Gentlemen, it has been an honor to share the field of battle with you."

-->'''Falco:''' "Didn’t ''anybody'' have anything better to do that day?"

* NotThisOneThatOne: "You see the yacht with the satellite dish?...Mine's the houseboat covered in pigeon shit next to it".

* RabidCop: Danny Bateman. Being a football movie, the "rabid" part figures ''much'' more prominently than the "cop" part, but in the one scene where we do see him at his day job - during a SWAT raid - he's just as [[TheBerserker no-holds-barred]] as he is on the football field.

--> '''[=McGinty=]''': "Listen up! This time tomorrow... The strike will be officially over. Now Dallas has made a big mistake out there tonight; They haven't been afraid of you. And they ''should be'', because you have a powerful weapon working for you; There is no ''tomorrow'' for you. And that makes you all [[PunctuatedForEmphasis '''very'''. '''Dangerous'''. '''People'''!"]]

-->'''Coach''': Well, there's no use standing here alone...outside of screaming distance...''(walks very quickly towards the stadium with Wilkinson trailing behind him)''

-->'''John Madden''': "He seems to be neckin' with that cheerleader! That's what he's doin'!"\\
'''Pat Summerall''': "You know, players are not supposed to be fraternizing with the cheerleaders."\\
'''John Madden''': "Yeah, but what are they gonna do, Pat? Fire him?"
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: In an interesting variation of this trope, Nigel, the team's kicker, is '[[FunetikAksent wirwy]]'.

* TakingAThirdOption: In the final game, Nigel, the team's kicker, reveals on the last play that he's going to lose his bar to some Mafia guys because he owes them money from betting at the track. They're forcing him to blow the kick to make up for it. Shane can either let Nigel blow the kick, and lose the game, or try and get a replacement (a replacement ''replacement''?) kicker before the timeout runs out. He decides on a third option in a dramatic snap-cut. He takes the ball and runs, flattening several opposing players blocking his path. It works, and then it doesn't.

%%* BigGame

AsTheGoodBookSays: Preacher quotes part of Ezekial 21:31 whilst in the middle of a bar fight.

--> '''[=McGinty=]''': "Listen up! This time tomorrow... The strike will be officially over. Now Dallas has made a big mistake out there tonight; They haven't been afraid of you. And they ''should be'', because you have a powerful weapon working for you; There is no ''tomorrow'' for you. And that makes you all '''very'''. '''Dangerous'''. '''People'''!"

* BarBrawl: The pro players show up to taunt and mock Film/TheReplacements. Said replacements end up in jail after the brawl. The pro players, on the other hand, likely ended up in the ER.

--> Jumbo: "Nan desu ka?!!!!"

--> '''[=McGinty=]''': "What's it gonna be Shane?"
--> '''Falco''': "I want the ball."
--> '''[=McGinty=]''': "Winners always do."

--> '''Martel''': "Nobody can beat Dallas with these losers."
--> '''Falco''': "I can."

-->'''Jumbo''': ''HOLY SHIT!''
-->'''Jamal''': ''Let's haul ass round boy!!''

--> '''John Madden''': "He seems to be neckin' with that cheerleader! That's what he's doin'!"
--> '''Pat Summerall''': "You know, players are not supposed to be fraternizing with the cheerleaders."
--> '''John Madden''': "Yeah, but what are they gonna do, Pat? Fire him?"

--> Andre Jackson: "We ain't losin' this game."

A not-so-typical football movie made in 2000, starring Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/GeneHackman.

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'''It's nasty out there...'''

* AsHimself: John Madden and Pat Summerall play themselves, doing the play-by-play for the football games in the movie.

--> "Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory...lasts forever."
--> -Shane Falco

A not-so-typical football movie made in 2000 starring Creator/KeanuReeves.

* BadAss: Danny Bateman is an utter monster on the field, who plows through blockers like they're not even there. It's not much of a surprise when his introduction lists him as Gulf War veteran with a Purple Heart. His day job is shown in his intro too; He's a SWAT officer.

* CharacterAsHimself: John Madden and Pat Summerall play themselves, doing the play-by-play for the football games in the movie. Shocking.

* TheObiWan: Coach [=McGinty=] to Shane Falco.