American Underdog

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American Underdog.

The opening titles play over a young Kurt Warner watching Joe Montana play on the TV It motivates him to go outside and practice

Jump to Kurt as a fifth-year player at the University of Northern Iowa

Kurt and his wide receiver hook up for a touchdown

He’s good but he always moves outside the pocket something that aggravates the head coach to no end

Kurt sits in the dorm room at his desk with a big box TV a VCR, and tapes

watching film footage and making highlight reels of his game for the upcoming draft

His teammate barges in and drags him out to the local bar country music blasts from the speakers, but Kurt isn’t a big fan of country music

he sees a pretty girl named Brenda having a ball on the dance floor but doesn’t take a shot

The next day, Kurt asks a teammate to teach him to line dance and he goes back to the bar asks the bartender to play a line dance

He cuts in and makes a good impression on Brenda

They dance all night together, but she suddenly leaves without giving him her number

The following day, Brenda is at her parents’ house

She’s trying to get her toddler daughter to eat something, while her son Zack worries about his broken radio

he is legally blind

meanwhile, there’s a knock at the back door

Brenda goes to check it out, when she sees Kurt standing there with a single red rose

She’s shocked, But doesn’t answer the door

leaves to make herself presentable, while Zack answers the door and lets Kurt in

Immediately Zach is taken with Kurt

He shows him his broken radio, and Kurt mentions it might need a new battery

Zack leads Kurt to the bathroom  opens the top drawer, and shows him new batteries

Kurt switches out the batteries, and the radio starts playing country music

He and Zack begin to hang out and listen to the radio, while Brenda’s mom watches then eventually introduces herself

She’s impressed with Kurt, and he invites her to his next game and Brenda wonders why he’s even interested, when he’s seen everything she’s got on her plate

But he’s very interested So much so that when she asks where his car is

he tells her that he walked from the university, which is three miles away

Then she gives him her number

During Kurt’s game, the coach makes him sit on the bench, Which annoys Kurt

He pleads with the coach to let him get the wide receiver for the coach, But the coach doesn’t put him in the game

At practice, the coach lets him know that he must stay in the pocket in order for him to play

So Kurt stays in the pocket and gets drilled Again and again

He’s determined to prove how bad he wants to play

In the next game Kurt stays in the pocket, and is able to drive his offense to the end zone

He pulls up to Brenda’s house in his used pickup truck, and wants to take her on a date

They go to the lake with the kids Sit on the tailgate and watch the sunset

she tells him about her time in the marines and her faith in God, and all the blessings she believes He’s sending her

and She tells him that Zack’s father dropped him on his head in the shower, when he was four months old, but didn’t tell anyone

She spent the next day in the hospital

listening to doctors tell her about how Zack was left brain-damaged

Kurt assures her that he isn’t going anywhere, and that he’s committed to her and the kids

he brings her and Zack to his mom’s house, But she’s not exactly welcoming

They watch the draft and Kurt hopes his name will be called, but knows it will be a long two days

Brenda reminds him that Zack’s birthday party is tomorrow, and Kurt says he will be there

She leaves with the kids in Kurt’s truck, and his mom asks him if he’s ready for all that

and Kurt knows that he wants to move forward with her and the kids

At the birthday party, Brenda sees Kurt enter

She waits for him to tell her if he was drafted, But he simply shakes his head no

Zack makes him light up by giving him a piece of birthday cake

Brenda’s family sits around the dinner table

and Brenda’s father asks Kurt how he thinks the Chicago bears are going to do this year

Kurt starts going into his thoughts

when he suddenly stops, her dad eyes him with a sly smile and Kurt excitedly asks if someone from the bears called

he says no and Kurt shows his disappointment

But two seconds later the father says the Packers did, and the family celebrate

Kurt gets a signing bonus of $5000 and He uses it to buy a used and green SUV

tells everyone it’s green for the Greenbay Packers

He says goodbye to Brenda and the family, then drives to Wisconsin

At training camp, he watches Brett Favre, Mark Brunell and former Heisman winner Ty Detmer on the field

The coach waves him in, but Kurt says he can’t because he doesn’t know the playbook

Later that night, Kurt is cut

Back in Iowa, he buys groceries at Hy-Vee market, with food stamps

At the checkout he sees that they are hiring, and asks for an application

Brenda attends nursing school during the day, while Kurt stocks shelves at night

and They try to schedule a date night but unfortunately their schedules don’t line up

Kurt stocks Wheaties boxes, and his co-worker asks him if he’s ever going to be on the box, but Kurt says it’s not as easy as it looks

Then the co-worker goes long and Kurt passes him a box as a football

but They crash into a tower of stacked goods, The manager comes out, and he says they’ll clean it up

While eating lunch with Brenda, Kurt is approached by Jim Foster coach of the Iowa Barnstormers

he thinks it’s a waste of time

but Brenda takes the card, and Jim leaves cash for them like it was an accident

Sometime later, Brenda’s dad asks Kurt what his intentions are

Kurt says that he loves Brenda and the kids, but wants to be worthy of her

Which is doesn’t feel he is at this moment

her dad tells him it’s not about the destination it’s about the journey

This hits home with Kurt Then her dad hits him with a curveball

they are moving to Arkansas, and into their dream home

Kurt and Brenda move into a tiny apartment with the kids, and can barely afford to pay for the heat

During one of the coldest nights in Iowa, Kurt takes the family and just starts driving in the truck

Out in the middle of nowhere they run out of gas

Kurt tells them to stay in the truck, because he will run two miles back to a gas station

there, Kurt shakes snow off his hoodie pays $4 and some change for gas

and begs the cashier to let him borrow a gas container

Later he vows that he will do whatever to provide for this family

Kurt moves to another town, where the Barnstormers play

There he is reunited with some college teammates, and coach Foster is happy to see him and He has the team send his checks directly to Brenda

The barnstormers are a good team in the Arena Football League It’s different than the NFL

The sideline is a wall, and the coach tells them to get used to running into it

Kurt’s first game takes place in the same arena as a rodeo show

It’s weird to see goats on the way to the field, but the crowd for the Arena game is packed

Kurt leads his team down the field and scores a touchdown

The coach gives him a hundred dollar bill and Kurt looks puzzled

the coach says it’s in his contract, that he will get a hundred dollars for every touchdown he throws

Kurt then throws so many touchdowns, and he needs a jar to keep all his money

It’s hard for Kurt and Brenda, being apart and deal with their respective responsibilities, and They barely have time to have a decent phone conversation

Brenda drives down with the kids to surprise Kurt at his next game

She sees Kurt signing autographs after the game, but can’t get through without a pass

Then she realizes that Zack is missing, and Kurt hears her voice then finally finds Zack in the hallway

Later, Kurt and Brenda have an argument about their situation and Kurt is hurried by teammates to go to a party, but he insists he doesn’t have to go, and Brenda leaves

On another day, Brenda shows up at Kurt’s apartment

They talk and Brenda wants him to succeed  just not with her and This is the last thing that Kurt wants

In the next game, Kurt throws the game-winning touchdown

but isn’t excited, because it doesn’t mean anything without Brenda

Then, Kurt gets a call from Brenda, and He drives to meet her in Arkansas, where a tornado just destroyed her parents’ new house

She’s heartbroken that her parents have passed So is Kurt

Her sister and her husband meet them and the kids spread their parents’ ashes

Brenda says that she’ll forever remember this moment and if Kurt isn’t going to be here for the long haul she wants to do it alone, But Kurt says that he’ll be here

Later, the adults are sitting by a fire outside the motel

Kurt volunteers to check on the kids, He starts to cry and Zack comforts Kurt

Soon after  Kurt and Brenda are married

Kurt leads the barnstormers to the Arena Bowl, but they lose the championship

He’s then approached by a team executive for the St. Louis Rams

It turns out they’ve been trying to get ahold of him for a while, but coach Foster has been keeping them away

Kurt shows up at the Rams training facility

Head coach Dick Vermeil and offensive coordinator Mike Martz, disagree on whether he is good enough

Kurt gels with the team, but Martz gets on him for messing up the snap, when it was the center’s fault

but Kurt’s okay taking the heat

Martz calls him into the office and tries to tear him down but Kurt shows his resilience

Eventually, Kurt makes the team as the backup quarterback

During a pre-season game, the starting quarterback Trent Green gets hurt

He has torn his ACL and will not be returning this season

At a press conference, Dick Vermeil makes an emotional statement, We will rally around Kurt Warner

Brenda makes her way into the locker room, and gives Kurt a last-minute pep talk

She gives him a letter from Zack, and it moves Kurt

In the season opener, Kurt and his teammates Marshall Faulk, Issac Bruce, and Torry Holt face off against Ray Lewis and the Baltimore Ravens

Kurt takes the field and leads his team to the red zone but it is intercepted

On the sideline, Kurt gets a call from Martz, and he’s ready for his scolding

but Martz tells him, he was only hard on Kurt to see if he could take it

He’s proven he’s worthy of being here and leading this team and With that Kurt goes to work

the team works together, and overcomes the huge obstacle of beating the Ravens

Kurt throws three touchdowns in his first NFL start and in the next two games he throws three touchdowns as well which is an NFL record

In his first season in the NFL Kurt leads the Rams to the Super Bowl and beat the Tennessee Titans

He is named MVP

He would play into two more Super Bowls, one with the Rams one with the Arizona Cardinals and He would be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2017

Kurt and Brenda had five more kids, and a few grandkids today.