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BY GENE RUFFINI

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

The following conversation between two film executives was transcribed verbatim and made available to NewJerseynewsroom.com exclusively.

BERNIE

You heard — the Jets lost.

MALCOLM

I heard — my cousin called me from a sports bar in Secaucus. I could hardly hear him from all the crying in the background.

BERNIE

So what do we do now about the movie: God's Team?

MALCOLM

We could put it in turnaround — or we could go ahead with a fictional scenario.

BERNIE

Ah, gee — but this one was so good. A natural. A stumblebum team that everybody thought was a bunch a losers — shows the world they have the right stuff by battling for the league championship.

MALCOLM

And the beauty part was they meet two playoff-bound teams — the Bengals and the Colts — that supposedly handed them victories because the teams wanted to rest their key players and everybody said the ragtag heroes were a fluke.

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BERNIE

But they're not. In the magic, celestial screenplay they go on to beat both of the ha-ha teams in the playoffs and then meet a veteran quarterback in the Super Bowl who had been their quarterback but he double-crossed and dumped them. And the Little Team That Could beats him, too. Retribution time.

The underdog wins. What a movie. Script made in heaven. Who'd we have lined up for this?

BERNIE

Bill Crudup or Leonardo DeCaprio for the young, rookie quarterback of the ragtag Jets and John Goodman for their rookie rotund coach — Rex Ryan. Stephen Lang for the veteran, grizzled quarterback of the Vikings.

MALCOLM

But the Jets and the Vikings dropped the ball. So we do it fiction. Rocky with shoulder pads. We throw in the kid in a hospital bed who's hanging on by a thread and his last wish is for his favorite team to win the Super Bowl.

MALCOLM

The rookie quarterback says, "We'll win it for you, kid." During the game, he points a football toward the goal line. "That's where it's going kid."

BERNIE

Or we have the player who dies during the season and his last word are, "Win It For Me."

MALCOLM

Yeah, his name could be Schnipper and Goodman says "Win This One for the Schnipper."

BERNIE

I love it. Let's do it anyway.

MALCOLM

Na, it's always better if it's based on a true story. Besides you got the Jets winning and beating both Indianapolis and Minnesota ... you chill the Midwest markets.

BERNIE

So what do we do?

MALCOLM

Wait for the big comeback next year.

BERNIE

You know what?

MALCOLM

What?

BERNIE

You sound like a Jets fan.