Something for Joey

The golden age of football movies was clearly the 1970s, and while I am sure others would say otherwise, how can you argue against "Brian's Song," "Heaven Can Wait," "North Dallas Forty," "The Longest Yard," "Semi Tough," and heck even "Gus: The Field Goal Kicking Mule."  There was a magic and simplicity to all these movies that, when you watch them now, make you remember just how much you miss that polyester era when Howard Cosell ruled Monday night and the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers seemed to always be playing the late afternoon game. However, occasionally you would see the perennial NFC West champs, the Los Angeles Rams, on which team John Cappelletti played and whose younger brother died tragically of leukemia, the story of which was made into both a book and a tearjerker TV movie called "Something For Joey."  Though I missed it when it was on TV when I was a kid, apparently, it was a popular TV movie here in Japan, and is readily available on YouTube, the free stream of which is available here for your viewing pleasure.