This movie made no 'football sense.

These are hardly major issues, unless of course you are working from the standpoint of somebody who wants to discredit the movie and thinks he's got an angle. The football plays themselves were actually pretty impressively authentic. I think they hired an actual semi-pro team to run them or some such. The blocking schemes were right, the routes run by the recievers were right..its surprisingly rare to see that. Certainly adds more authenticity to the proceedings than stretching the rules to make for a dramatic ending takes away. Besides which, if you are going to insist on taking that route, they could easily have left Falco on the active roster out of sentiment or so he'd get a last pay check. They could also have asked him to leave the team so that the rest of the team would have no divided loyalties between he and Martel. Easy enough to explain away if it must be done, but most reasonable people really don't care about such nits.

You're applying NFL rules to a fictional football league. Did you see any actual NFL teams in the movie? I would say we can assume this is NOT the NFL.

Most importantly, it's just a movie. And a light-hearted comedy at that. If this were a true story based on actual teams/players/events I could see the nitpicking, but that's not the case. I've noticed plenty of errors in sports films, even ones that take place in actual sports leagues (like Major League for instance) and films based on actual events where they flubbed things.

One of the greatest sports movie franchises (Rocky) totally messes up the rules of boxing regularly. For instance in Rocky II, when Rocky falls after knocking Apollo down, he wouldn't have been in danger of being counted out. Rocky was not hit by a punch and his falling down would have been ruled a slip, but it was more dramatic to have it be a race to see which one would get up first while the ref is counting them both out. Over the course of the franchise there would be many errors, but that one comes to mind.

But hey, it's a movie, suspend disbelief.

"IF THE DEVIL HAD A NAME, IT WOULD BE CHUCK FINLEY!!"

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#2- Unless Martel said the only way he would cross is if Falco was gone. Unless they already had another backup QB (which I assume they did) and he just kept his role as backup. Unless Falco pussed out and quit when he was told Martel was going to start. In fact there are a lot of ways to explain this.

#3- No one said he wasn't on the active roster, he just wasn't at the game. Besides they never said this was the NFL. If I am not mistaken, the last game of the season against Dallas was on Thanksgiving night. If that was the case it might be another indicator that this was not the NFL. Also, none of the teams were the same as NFL teams and the NFL was never mentioned so I kind of assumed it was not the NFL so they may have different rules.

#4- Cheerleaders may not go on strike but they might refuse to cheer to show solidarity for the players. As for the NFL never hiring strippers, Again, was this the NFL? I don't know. Maybe in this league Cheerleaders do go on strike.

I'm John and Pat enjoyed their payhecks for what was probably a day or two worth of filming.

If all you could come up with were these 4 discrepancies (3 of which might not even be discrepancies at all) I think they did pretty well with the football sense. Keep in mind that the Canadian Football League (which is a Pro Football League) has many different rules than the NFL. The NFL is not the only Pro football league out there.

you left out the most important part that it's a movie made for entertainment purposes.