For the UK crowd, there’s something almost hypnotically exotic about Ivan Reitman’s sports-drama doubling down on the protocol of the NFL transfer window. The process is spoken of with such faith and commitment, such sweat and intensity, that the jargon rings in your ears like liturgy. While the likes of Any Given Sunday and Moneyball were character studies with a sports backdrop, our investment in Kevin Costner’s Cleveland wrangler is never that deep, and the issues he’s dealing with – disapproving mum, dead dad, pregnant girlfriend – are just bases to jog around. The pregnancy strand especially, given that this seems to be a first child for both Coster (59) and girlfriend Jennifer Garner (42) might have felt like quite a game-changer. Yet quarterback scrambles forever muscle centre stage, leaving the human element scrimmaging on the sidelines.
Kevin Costner’s personal issues are left on the bench as everyone gets worked up about NFL transfer windows
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