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Bring your playbook.

Bring your playbook.

(DOOR OPENS )

Coach wants to see you.

Bring your playbook.

(DOOR CLOSES )

Once again, the evening's top story.

Union leaders are now calling

for a strike against Westinghouse.

Two thousand workers

could be on the picket lines

as early as tomorrow night.

And now over to Wade Chambers

and sports.

Well, the biggest news today

from Eagles training camp

is that Philly's own Vince Papale

has made it past the first round of cuts.

The part-time bartender remains

a long shot to make the team,

but the mere fact that he's still around,

well, that's amazing in itself.

Attaboy, Vince.

Vermeil's coaching staff seems to be

focusing on defense this year.

Welcome to special teams, gentlemen.

The only way that many of you

will make this roster

is by proving yourself right here.

To be successful,

you must throw away all fear.

Speed and agility are critical,

but desire and determination

are even more important.

COACH 1:
Ready.

COACH 2:
Move it, move it!

That's it.

-Got it.

-Way to go, Banks!

Way to bring it home.

-Looks good, right?

-Yeah.

Next!

COACH 1:
Keep them on the 20.

(GRUNTS )

There you go, Sampson!

That's what we're looking for out here!

Mmm-hmm.

Cream's coming to the top now, Pops.

-Give me some.

-Oh, yeah.

What you doing in here?

How am I supposed to run

in all this stuff?

That stuff protects you.

It's there for a reason.

You can't wear quarterback pads.

You won't last a week wearing those.

Nothing personal,

but is it really gonna matter?

(MEN CHEERING )

All right. Come on. You can do it!

COACH 1:
Ready.

(LET IT RIDE B Y BACHMAN-TURNER

O VERDRIVE PLA YIN G)

(GRUNTING )

(MEN CHEERING )

(GRUNTS )

COACH 1:
What about Franks?

COACH 2:
They're beating him

on the weak side.

He better figure something out

if he wants to stick around.

(DOOR CLOSES )

(GRUNTING )

(DOOR OPENING )

(DOOR CLOSES )

(CAR HORN HONKING )

(MANDOLIN WIND B Y ROD S TEWAR PLA YIN G)

Chicken soup.

Cures everything, yeah?

(POOL BALLS CLACKING )

-Tommy been in yet?

-Not so far.

Anybody take you to Colombo's yet?

The best cheese steak in Philly.

Anybody asking?

Well, if Maxie

don't have you working Friday.

Long as 9:
00 gets you back

for your curfew.

All right.

JANET:
Hey, Rick, can you make me up

a grilled cheese?

-Make it with fries.

-RICK:
Oh, yeah.

You're jumping back pretty fast,

huh, buddy boy?

You really think a nice-Iooking girl

from New York's gonna come back,

start over with one of us?

Just 'cause everybody's

cheering for you trying to be an Eagle?

We're just talking here.

What's your problem, Johnny?

You'll still be nothing, man.

When all this is over and done,

nothing.

Just like the rest of us.

JANET:
Hey, Rick,

can I get some more fries?

RICK:
Sure, why not?

-Hey.

-Hey.

So, this is the place, huh?

As good as it gets?

Yeah. I mean, it's a little busy tonight.

Yeah.

Hey. You're Papale, right?

Yeah.

I don't care what anybody says.

You're doing a great job.

-Thank you.

-Keep sticking it to those guys.

-All right?

-All right.

-Sorry about that.

-I guess you're still on the team, huh?

Yeah, well,

there's a lot more cuts to go, but...

What?

I was just thinking, you know.

I didn't think I was gonna make it

past the first week of all this,

and now that I have, I mean...

Well, maybe it's just better

if I just think about one thing

instead of everything else.

For right now.

"Everything else"?

Did you think

this was a date or something?

Vince, I'm the last one

that wants to start something right now.

Barely a month ago, I was

with the wrong guy, you were married.

We're not exactly the perfect match.

I didn't mean for it to sound like that.

That's not what I meant.

No, you know,

Max thought it was gonna be busy

at his place tonight, too,

so I'm gonna go over there

and see if I can help him out.

-Janet...

-No, we'll do this another night.

I'll tell everyone you said hi.

(FUNK MUSIC PLA YIN G ON S TEREO )

-Denny Franks, right?

-Mmm-hmm.

Vermeil's trying to mix things up.

He's putting rooks with veterans,

veterans with rooks.

Crazy.

So, are you like everyone else

around here?

You mean, do I hate you? Yeah.

I'm a center. I hate everybody.

Yeah, well, your weak-side block,

it's not good enough.

Says who?

I heard some coaches talking...

-What color are my knuckles?

-What?

What color are my knuckles?

-They're white.

-They're white.

You see,

white 'cause my weight's forward.

Means I'm coming after you.

If I'm laying back,

the color comes back.

Tired of watching you

get hammered every day.

I appreciate that.

Is there anything else I should know?

Yeah, lose the Giants shirt

hanging in my closet.

(MEN CHATTERING )

(WHISTLE BLOWS )

COACH:
You want a job?

You want a job? Let's go.

-Let's go.

-COACH 2:
Go, next group.

(WHISTLE BLOWS )

-Set.

-COACH 1:
Move it, move it, move it.

Come on! All the way.

Touch the line! Touch the line!

Let's go, let's go, let's go.

COACH 1:
Come on, gentlemen.

Let's act like you wanna be here!

First group again.

-PLAYER:
All right, let's go. Let's go.

-Set.

COACH 1:
You heard him, first group.

(WHISTLE BLOWING )

COACH 2:
Right.

All the way, all the way.

Shake it off. Shake it off.

Push through. That's good.

Push them through. Come on.

You do know

we have a whole season in front of us?

COACH 1:
That's it.

Hit and release. Hit and release.

Come on. Do it again. Do it again.

We're still looking

for the last five players, right, A.C.?

I know.

But do we need to kill the first 40

to find the last five?

Fred!

(WHISTLE BLOWS )

Nutcracker, other side of the field!

(PLAYERS CHATTERING )

PLAYER:
Get in there.

(WHISTLES )

(PEOPLE CHEERING )

-PLAYER:
Come on, rook.

-Put it on him, 57.

-Come on, boy.

-Feel it. Come on.

-Out of nowhere...

-PLAYER:
You gotta feel it, Papale.

(WHISTLE BLOWING )

(GRUNTING )

-What are you doing?

-That's not quick enough, German.

-Come on.

-Run it again. Now.

Let's go.

PLAYER:
Rook came

to play today, man.

German, he's about

to dial your number.

PLAYER:
Pastahead Papale!

PLAYER 1:
Hey, German.

PLAYER 2:
German!

-Go, German!

-Go!

(GROWLING )

PLAYER:
Get him, get him.

(GRUNTING )

(CROWD CHEERING )

Hey, 57, I don't know.

He's got your number, baby.

Get up!

Let's go.

It ain't over. It ain't over. It ain't over.

Come on.

MAN 1:
Come on!

MAN 2:
Come on!

(PLAYERS CHEERING )

COACH:
Set.

PLAYER:
Take that rookie down.

(WHISTLE BLOWING )

(BOTH ROARING )

(ALL BOOING )

-PLAYER:
You showed him, German.

-Let's move them downstairs.

(WHISTLE BLOWING )

-All right, gentlemen. Lower field.

-PLAYER:
Yeah.

(APPLAUSE)

Let's move.

(WHISTLE BLOWING )

Let's go.

(GRUNTING )

All right, Vince. It's all right.

MAN ON TV:
A less-than-perfect start

for new head coach Dick Vermeil,

the Eagles losing

their preseason opener today

to San Diego, 20-7.

Still with the team,

for one more week, at least,

South Philly's own favorite son,

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