North Dallas Forty (1979)

Based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Peter Gent, a former wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, North Dallas Forty (1979) stars Nick Nolte as Phil Elliott, an aging wide receiver playing football for a professional, Dallas-based club clearly modeled after "America's Team." Though he is considered one of the best wide outs in the league, Elliott is struggling to perform as he gets up there in age and begins relying heavily on painkillers to hit the gridiron. His best bud is the hard-partying quarterback Seth Maxwell (Mac Davis), while Elliott and his coach (Charles Durning) never manage to see eye to eye. The past-his-prime receiver just wants to play football, retire, and build a home with his girlfriend Charlotte (Dayle Haddon). Even with the pain, Elliott is fine on the field but his off-the-fields arguments with the coaches and the front office are sure to have him hanging up his spikes sooner, rather than later. Will his QB best friend be there to have his back when the team tries to kick him to the curb or is the business of football even more brutal in the board room than it is on the field? It might seem stupid now, but there was a time when people didn't realize how much sex, drugs and insane off the field antics took place in the world of professional football, and this flick unveiled that myth in the same way Ball Four did for baseball. That means we get skin scenes along with pigskin scenes! Since much of the film takes place in the locker room, there’s plenty of nameless ass and muscle milling about. But Nick Nolte and Mac Davis team up to show a lot of buns, and near nudity as they tend to the Sunday-delivered wounds. And both hang out in their whitey tighties too! Hut, hut, hot! North Dallas Forty will give you the big D!