{"id":9601,"date":"2011-07-08T07:23:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9601"},"modified":"2011-07-08T07:23:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:23:06","slug":"why-cant-modern-football-players-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/why-cant-modern-football-players-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Can&#8217;t Modern Football Players Act?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So someone help me out here: why don&#8217;t modern football players transition to acting careers as successfully as old timey football players did?<\/p>\n<p>In the Olden Days, we have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0647744\/\" target=\"_blank\">Merlin Olsen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0807571\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bubba Smith<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0440090\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Karras<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0124792\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Butkus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001740\/\" target=\"_blank\">O.J. Simpson<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the modern era, we have, what?  Brett Favre in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0129387\/\" target=\"_blank\">There&#8217;s Something About Mary<\/a><\/em>?  Brian Bosworth in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0098372\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Stone Cold<\/em><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this list: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.footballbabble.com\/football\/movies\/actors\/\" target=\"_blank\">50 Football Players Who Acted in Movies<\/a> and note that the ones who could be said to have made a successful transition to films and television played prior to the 1980s, and that most of the roles from then on are as &#8220;Self&#8221;?  Is it a transition in football culture?  Is it that older players were better-rounded and most professionals these days are football robots, funnelling all their energy into it from an early age? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So someone help me out here: why don&#8217;t modern football players transition to acting careers as successfully as old timey football players did? In the Olden Days, we have: Merlin Olsen Bubba Smith Alex Karras Dick Butkus O.J. Simpson In the modern era, we have, what? Brett Favre in There&#8217;s Something About Mary? Brian Bosworth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,31,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-sports","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9604,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601\/revisions\/9604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}