Two Minutes to Glory

This is a football fan’s Citizen Kane. As the great Vince Lombardi says in the movie, football games are won and lost in the final two minutes, and the clips in this delightful DVD back him up 110 percent. Depending on your age, you probably can remember seeing most of these awesome two-minute drills happening in real time, but that doesn’t make reliving them any less fun, particularly if you are a fan of the team that snatches defeat from the jaws of victory just as the clock expires. (And even if yours is the team that gets beat, it’s still worth watching if only for the ‘football miracle’ angle.) Some of the best moments in the movie, though, are the ones from the glory days of football, back when they didn’t even have face-guards on their helmets and the goal posts were located in the middle of the end zone. While a lot of the circus catches that make for memorable moments in the modern era are cool, there’s nothing like watching a bunch of really tough guys slug it out inches from the end zone to remind you how awesome football can be.