NFL Greatest Follies Complete Collection

NFL Greatest Follies, the Complete Collection, contains 2 DVD's of 6 hilarious NFL Follies movies great for any fan of the sports blooper.1) The Football Follies: This 1968 film was the first NFL Films follies, which started the series. Although the highlights are quite dated and tame for the ESPN generation, it's a glimpse of the league during that AFL-NFL era.2) The Son of Football Follies: John Facenda and Mel Blanc! Hysterical, with various WB cartoon voices (Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and Yosemite Sam) adding to the humor of the clips.3) NFL Follies Go Hollywood: John Facenda creates his own movie previews to introduce each of the various-themed highlights and get a quick glimpse of him on the camera!4) 21st Century Follies: A follie video for the modern era up to the 2000 season.5) Talkin' Follies: Probably the weakest of the bunch. It's just voice overs of locker room, sideline, and fan moments.6) NFL's 100 Greatest Follies: Contains all of the bloopers of the century, although not introduced in order. They're grouped by themes, so it's not a countdown ranking, but still enjoyable. Finally, I saw the highlight I was trying to find. Yes, an NFL player thought he scored a touchdown, however he ran the other way.

I have mixed feelings about this set. The visuals of the follies, etc., are great: funny, enjoyable, and even a few "wows". The "choreography" to classic music such as excerpts of the Nutcracker Suite are really well done.However, I found the "Talkin' Follies" (voice-overs that put words in people's mouths other than what they truly said) so annoying that I quit watching it. Also, I do not find listening to "Bugs Bunny" et al either funny or helpful; to me such things are distracting and actually lessen the humor. Since that film also has one of the great "ballet" segments, I'm going to hit the mute button until I reach the "ballet" when I watch it in the future. I also found the commentary on the first film lessened the humor of the activities caught on film, and will mute it in the future until I reach its "ballet" segment.The best of the films, in my opinion, is the "100 Greatest Follies". All are numbered, though only the top 10 are in sequence. The commentary is better and doesn't distract or detract from the follies themselves. As a result, the humor of what I was watching actually got me laughing because there wasn't an undercurrent of frustration caused by the narrators. And the follies chosen are truly funny.I, as others reviewing here, was puzzled by the title of the last film, because it is not follies that occurred in the 21st century (so a misnomer, in my opinion), but a film released in the 21st century.I really enjoy football, and really enjoy classic football (say, pre-90's, roughly), so the visual portion is great and highly recommended. The narration and "Talkin' Follies" aspects are what lowered my rating to 3 stars.

I was very disappointed with this DVD. In my opinion the Follies were not very humorous and the collection is mostly old old footage. I am sorry that I bought it. I was expecting contemporary footage maybe starting in the 90's. Instead this DVD is a mixture of the 50's and 60's. The quality was not good.

I purchased this as a gift and won't give it until mid-September

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DVD was a terrible disappointment. I have always enjoyed and admired NFL films including some of the follies efforts. This has to be one of their earliest attempts as its quality and content was extremely poor and not close to the standards I have grown to appreciate. It was not even entertaining. My bad for not knowing more about the specifics of the item I ordered.

Unlike volume three, the first two volumes (apart from one part of two) are follies from the beginning of football. If you like teams when they first started, you'll love this! A good DVD to watch during the long off season.

This was great to watch, it reminded me of my childhood wathcing these old videos. I wouldn't really recommend it for kids of this day and age. They need something more fast paced. My boys weren't too interested and they love football!

bon, je pensais en achetant ce coffret voir des moments marrants comme des discussions entre joueurs sur le terrain ou entre arbitre et coach comme il y en a beaucoup mais en fait ne sont pratiquement que des maladresse avec le ballon et surtout des images tres vieilles pour un coffret sortie en 2005 (beaucoup si ce n'est pratiquement que des images des années 80). sans compter sur une voix off desagreable et des bruitage a la video gag. je met 2 etoiles et c'est tres genereux.