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Punctuating this scene are brief little clips from last night's football game, where Elliot was met with several rough, polarizing blows to every part of his body.

He lumbers to the kitchen to get a beer before stumbling to soak in a bathtub. Elliot is slow to get up, every move being a slow one that clearly causes a searing amount of pain. It shows the aging and exhausted Phil Elliot (Nick Nolte), passed out in his bed and awoken by a blaring alarm clock.

The opening shot of Ted Kotcheff's North Dallas Forty is a tense and memorable one.