Directed by: Ted Kotcheff
Starring: Nick Nolte, Charles Durning, Dayle Haddon, Mac Davis
Maxwell: You had better learn how to play the game, and I don't mean just the game of football.
Maxwell: Ladies, ever had a quarterback sandwich?
Conrad Hunter: People who confuse brains and luck can get in a whole lot of trouble. Seeing through the game is not the same as winning the game.
Coach Johnson: This is national TV. So don't pick your noses or scratch your nuts.
Phillip Elliott: Hell coach, I love needles.
Factual error: According to the novel on which the movie was based, the "40" in the title refers to the number of players on a football team. But by the time the movie was made, football teams had 45 players. The coach even says Nick Nolte was just one of 45 players. So the title of the movie really makes no sense.
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