'Gridiron' scores, but box office sags
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It was another down weekend at the box office, although moviegoers helped Sony Pictures and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson score with the football flick "Gridiron Gang."
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Let the arguments begin. The first Bowl Championship Series rankings are due out in a few weeks and the number of unbeaten teams is shrinking rapidly.
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Leave it to the NFL to reward NBC for buying into Sunday night by giving it an opener with a twist. Spend a few billion dollars and you, too, can make a family squirm.
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Carrying a scoreless streak deep into October isn't one of the easier tasks to carry out on a gridiron.
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Apparently movie fans are ready for some football...and little   else.
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It all depends on the viewpoint. One view looks solely at the bottom line. The Patriots entered their regular-season finale against the Giants tied for the fewest points allowed in the NFL, then proceeded to surrender a season-high 35 - 28 coming on defense and 7 on special teams.
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Everybody knows the sequel is rarely as good as the original. Why, if one considers sports movies alone, "Caddyshack II," "Rocky V," and, of course, "The Bad News Bears Go To Japan," were particularly fouled-up followups.
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"Evan Almighty" did not live up to its name at the weekend box office in North America.
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While baseball fans fret over the continuing drug investigations, football lumbers toward the Super Bowl without incurring much angst over its assorted scandals.
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With parity spreading, the difference between contending for a title and playing in the Alamo Bowl can be just a few points. Kickers may be more important than ever.
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The new low-budget thriller  "Boogeyman" haunted the No. 1 slot at the weekend box office in  North America on Sunday, a day when movie theaters will be  lucky to scare up much business in the face of competition from  the Super Bowl.
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Special teams have been a consistent area of concern for the Redskins in recent years and the kick and punt units have been less than spectacular this season.
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At times it felt like something out of a ``Naked Gun" movie. It also was mildly reminiscent of O.J.'s white Bronco police chase, this time with Deion Sanders playing the role of Al Cowlings.
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The summer box office season in   North America ended on an "Invincible" note during the U.S.   Labor Day holiday weekend as the Mark Wahlberg football movie   scored a second week at No. 1.
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Ratings are based on the box office collections and the cost of the film.
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How odd that a major-market professional sports team blitzing relentlessly toward victory went almost unnoticed.
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A box-office surprise, the movie jabs hard at Americans' biases.