AMERICAN UNDERDOG Studies
The Rams won another Superbowl- this time in their Los Angeles rendition. When I was younger I remember cheering on the Rams when they were in St. Louis- they had GREAT teams with Kurt Warner as Quarterback there.
The timing of a new movie about Kurt Warner’s life story could not have been any better- and the movie is outstanding. AMERICAN UNDERDOG is the best football movie I have seen since Friday Night Lights- and it definitely has that feel, too. The two main characters, Kurt and his wife Brenda, had a hell of a road to the Superbowl. I remember seeing her in the stands in that 2000 Rams Superbowl, and hearing their up from poverty story. You could tell from looking at them on TV that there was even more to their story- but I had no how great it was.
Kurt Warner came from a tiny town, and played for a tiny college in Northern Iowa. Brenda was a former marine turned single mom to a kid with special needs. After Kurt and Brenda got together at a honky tonk, they had so little money he quit football for awhile to bag groceries at a Supermarket. He finally made it back to the NFL through playing arena football. And once he got to the NFL it was no cakewalk- the first big game he has to go against a linebacker for the Ravens by the name of RAY LEWIS! Basically, Kurt and Brenda had setback after setback, but their simple, guileless faith kept them going. It goes without saying that these are the kind of people who humbly, quietly keep America going. What a great story- go Rams.
PS- a classic country song that played a special part in their lives was “Keeper of the Stars”- pretty much perfect for this American Underdog story.