Kurt Warner has a movie

RaZon

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His story is movie stuff, well so is the Night Train Lane story,

Check it out...

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Lane was born in Austin, Texas, in April 1927.[1][2] When he was three months old, he was abandoned by his birth parents, a prostitute and pimp.[3] He was found, covered in newspapers, in a dumpster.[4][5][6] Lane later recalled, "My father was called Texas Slim. I never saw him - I don't know if he's the one that told my mother to throw me away. A pimp told my mother I had to go. They put me in a trash can and took off. Some people heard me crying. They thought it was a cat."[7]

Lane was adopted and raised by Ella Lane, who also had four other children.[7] As a youth in Austin, Lane grew up poor, busing tables at local hotels and shining shoes on Congress Avenue.[8] He also helped his mother with a laundry business she ran out of the home.[7] Lane became known as "Cue Ball" and later recalled how he acquired the nickname: "I was in a pool hall in 12th street. We were playing for money, maybe a dime. As soon as I made the eight ball, the other guy took off running. He didn't want to pay. I grabbed that cue ball and just as he made the corner I threw it and hit him upside the head. The guy didn't know what had hit him."[7]

If that ain't movie stuff what is?

He played JC ball, played in a black baseball league. Actually asked for a try out with the Rams, when he ran down "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, he made the team. The vicious hits the rags to richs story, that 14 INT's in just 12 games, his thing about the tune "Night Train". Yep, a movie.

 

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His story is movie stuff, well so is the Night Train Lane story,

Check it out...

Youth[edit]
Lane was born in Austin, Texas, in April 1927.[1][2] When he was three months old, he was abandoned by his birth parents, a prostitute and pimp.[3] He was found, covered in newspapers, in a dumpster.[4][5][6] Lane later recalled, "My father was called Texas Slim. I never saw him - I don't know if he's the one that told my mother to throw me away. A pimp told my mother I had to go. They put me in a trash can and took off. Some people heard me crying. They thought it was a cat."[7]

Lane was adopted and raised by Ella Lane, who also had four other children.[7] As a youth in Austin, Lane grew up poor, busing tables at local hotels and shining shoes on Congress Avenue.[8] He also helped his mother with a laundry business she ran out of the home.[7] Lane became known as "Cue Ball" and later recalled how he acquired the nickname: "I was in a pool hall in 12th street. We were playing for money, maybe a dime. As soon as I made the eight ball, the other guy took off running. He didn't want to pay. I grabbed that cue ball and just as he made the corner I threw it and hit him upside the head. The guy didn't know what had hit him."[7]

If that ain't movie stuff what is?

He played JC ball, played in a black baseball league. Actually asked for a try out with the Rams, when he ran down "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, he made the team. The vicious hits the rags to richs story, that 14 INT's in just 12 games, his thing about the tune "Night Train". Yep, a movie.



Good stuff. You're right, would be a great movie.

 

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I went to Warners High School (Cedar Rapids Regis)…same HS as Zach Johnson BTW…both years prior.
 

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Actually going to see the Kurt Warner one today. I appreciate his resiliency in a world full of people who aren’t very resilient. How many times was Kurt told he wasn’t good enough and yet he still believed in himself. Most people can talk that talk but can’t walk the walk
 
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