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Charting the Replacements

NFL Offseason - "Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever."
—Brett Favre, probably.

As Football Outsiders impatiently awaits a football version of Moneyball in which New Girl and Minx star Jake Johnson plays disc jockey turned analytics pioneer Aaron Schatz, we are left to reexamine the existing classics. A year removed from the release of some indie movie called The Matrix, Keanu Reeves starred in the most important film ever made, The Replacements.

The Replacements tells the story of an NFL player strike and the non-professional athletes one NFL owner hired to play in their stead.