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Football - Crash, Bangs, and Bloopers [VHS]

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This is one of the poorest quality videos I've ever seen. The graphics and voice-over are amateurish and worse - not funny. The picture quality is terrible. And most of the so called bloopers are just routine plays. Many of the teams represented are unrecognizable to American NFL or college ball fans. They appear to be CFL or European NFL minor league teams, or perhaps from one of the now defunct (USFL, WFL, etc.) NFL competitors. That wouldn't be a concern if the clips were amusing or interesting on any level, but unfortunately they are neither.

Maybe I expect too much from a bloopers video, but I wasn't really impressed here.

The good things first. There are some good bloopers of some NFL and college teams. I really liked some of the bloopers involving the refs (one ref even picks up the ball during the play-you can't do that), and bloopers can be great family fun.

I don't mind that some of the bloopers seem to be from obscure college teams, CFL games, and USFL leagues. That's fine. But the video consistently shows "bloopers" that aren't. Just because a football player drops the ball doesn't mean it's a blooper--fumbles happen all the time. And football players run into each other. It's football.

Moreover, the bloopers are consistently shown again later in the video. Do they think we won't remember the bloopers from earlier? Give me a break.

These drawbacks make me feel like the more the viewer knows about football, the less funny they will find this video--that's not good. Also, people with short-term memory loss will enjoy this video more because they won't remember that bloopers from earlier are appearing again. It's not the worst collection of bloopers, and I laughed out loud here or there, but it wasn't the best I've seen.

I bought this movie to show my flatmates in Scotland the joys of American Football. We all gathered around the TV on Thanksgiving and watched this movie and soon realized it consisted of about 10 minutes of footage that is repeated throughout the film. The only diffence is the annoying commentary and perhaps the most horrific soundtrack ever created changes slightly.

Seriously, the same footage is shown 2 or 3 times...it's crazy. I would not except this movie for free much less buy it again. The only good thing that resulted from this movie was the joy we felt as we repeatedly smashed the VHS after it was over. Yes we did watch the whole thing in hopes that there would be one moment of goodness...but alas there was not.

DO NOT BUY