I was watching my beloved Kentucky Wildcats barely sneak past Arkansas today when, at one point, Kentucky’s Rajon Rondo blew a dunk in a way that caused me to think back to a similar scene in “The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh.”
Why was Pittsburgh cursed in the championship game until midnight? I know it had to do with the astrological premise of the film, but I can’t recall what exactly it was.
Damn – it must’ve been twenty-three years since I last saw this movie! But even still, I think it was because the team’s psychic adviser predicted that the stars would be aligned against Pisces until midnight.
Hands down, this is the best basketball movie set in Pennsylvania starring a professional basketball star with an astrological theme ever made. It’s heaps better than The Capricorn Philly-Goats versus the Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island 2.
It was better than “Amazing Grace and Chuck”.
But why? What was special about that particular day?
Hey, who are you to question Stockard Channing?
The book was better anyway.
There was a book?
Anybody else have any ideas?
Moved to CS.
-xash
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Okay, I have a very vague recollection of this…but I thought it went thusly:
The stars said that the day of the championship game was a bad bad day for Pisces, so the team was stinking up the court. Once midnight arrived, it was technically the next day, so all the players started kicking butt. The coach went to the astrologer and said “But that makes no sense, the stars are still aligned like they were a minute ago” and the astrologer said “You know that, and I know that, but they [the players] don’t know that!”
Does that answer your question?
Senkelat. Close. I’m not even sure tif the players knew that the stars were aligned against them… they just got fed up with losing and rallied to a win. also, i’m pretty sure it was the astrologer who said it was impossible for the pisces to win, and the lil’ kid mascot who tarveled with the team who said, “The players don’t know that.” And why the hell am ai quibbling about this anyway? I saw this movie ONCE in 1977! I’m gonna be a pitiful old man in the nursing home with these as my ingrained memories, I tell you.
That’s an amazing feat! You saw the movie two years before it was made!
Now that this is in CS, I feel less bad about a Wildcat-related hijack.
How about Rondo? Hell, all the freshmen are good, although I’d like to see Morris show some better sense in the low post.
And imagine if Shagari bulks up some more. :eek:
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I should clarify: I was growing up in Michael Moore’s hometown of Flint, MI at the time. That place was always at least two years behind the times!
And a most welcome hijack it is!
Yeah, Shagari is on the verge of something pretty awesome. He already does some awesome things, but he runs out of gas too quickly.
…For 20 minutes.
Yeah, but if he can keep expanding the bag of tricks (remember the drop step he busted out during the Louisville game?) he’s gonna be something fierce.
I describe him as Jules Camara, only lighter. He’s still put on something like 10 pounds since last year, and could stand 20 more.
I have nothing to add, except that it’s threads like these that make this place great.