He Dribbles, We Quibble
Newsweek, March, 2008 by David Ansen
Will Ferrell’s ‘Semi-Pro’ is mostly bush league.
groovy ’do, Man: Ferrell, the 1976 vintage
Will Ferrell’s Jackie Moon, the owner, coach, promoter and forward of the Flint Tropics (yes, that’s the Michigan Flint), is a familiar but slightly sweeter variant of the overbearing, hyper Ferrell sportsman who seems to make a yearly visit to our screens. Full of deluded optimism and unearned bravado, he’s trying to rally his basement-dwelling basketball team to a magnificent fourth-place finish in the ABA in hopes it will become one of the NBA’s expansion teams. It’s that, or extinction. The year is 1976, which allows Ferrell to wear skimpy basketball shorts, awful polyester suits and a white-boy Afro considerably less impressive than the one on André Benjamin, who...
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