Cross Ditka off your USC coaching wishlist

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- October 9, 2026 at 6:11 pm #21253
  
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  Dead at 86. PT posted earlier he made a cameo in a Will Farrell movie as Will’s Dad. He did not.
  
  If you had kids you would know this. He played Phil (Will) Dad’s neighbor. Who hated Phil’s Dad. The Dad was Robert Duval, who was also amazing. Film should have gotten an Oscar or 3.
  
  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/nfl-hall-of-famer-dies-at-86/ar-AA2dUdPf?ctsrc=dgst&ocid=edgntpruby&pc=U531&cvid=6ac927b026b0482db89bbc9cf9a8427e&uxmode=ruby&ei=9
  
  Ditka had a starring role, not a cameo in “Kicking and Screaming” which rates with Sandlot, Back to the Future, Elf, and Bedtime Stories as one of the greatest family movies ever. If your kids play or played sports and you have not seen it you have missed out
  
  In the movie Ditka had the famous JUICE BOX scene that the present USC team reminds me of. Perhaps they can wear a Juice Box patch on their jerseys now.
  
  Ditka is a football coach and yet his acting in the movie was first rate. Mostly just played himself
  
  Here is the trailer
  
  https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideoq=will+ferrell+mike+ditka+movie&&mid=104FD1A35CDE85FD3F7F104FD1A35CDE85FD3F7F&churl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fchannel%2fUCTCjFFoX1un-j7ni4B6HJ3Q&FORM=VAMGZC
- October 9, 2026 at 8:22 pm #21269
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  Lmao. I stopped typing there. Yeah I remember he was bucks neighbor. Was his ad about having balls or having big balls or something like that? 😂
  
  Yeah I remember the leaf blower scene and every thing else
  
  Great movie. My kids and I loved it too. Man time flies
  
  Came out in 2005
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  - October 9, 2026 at 8:53 pm #21272
    
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    I just watched THAT THING YOU DO with Tom Hanks and all that. 1996. We are watching all these young stars and wife’s daughter says “oh that’s Liv Tyler” I am like who? She says that old dude from Aerosmith’s daughter. So I am so impressed and I am like Oh, you know that young girl? She’s like “uh, young? She’s OLD! She’s like I dunno. 50” Looked it up. 49. Man that one hurt.
    
    Will Ferrell has made 3 classic movies IMO. Elf, Talledega Nights, and Kicking and Screaming. And the latter IMO was greatly made by the kids, Duval and Ditka.
  - October 9, 2026 at 9:38 pm #21275
    
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    Stepbrothers and Old School are legit great as well.
  - October 9, 2026 at 8:55 pm #21273
    
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    Bucks’s Sporting Goods because?
    
    WE’VE GOT BALLS!!!
    
    (and vitamins)
    
    But mostly BALLS!
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