NFL players in the movies

With Rex Ryan making his acting debut in Adam Sandler’s newest movie and Eli Manning recently joining hosting SNL, these two join a long list of famous football names who have hit the screen.

There have been times when football stars have looked like fools on the big screen but there are other where one little cameo can make a whole audience burst into tears.

A few NFL star who needs to hit the screen is Jared Allen, who might not be the most high profile player in the league certainly is one of the leagues funniest.

Here is a look at some of the greatest cameos by football players.

1) Dan Marino – Ace Ventura + Little Nicky

Marino stared in both Ace Ventura and Little Nicky.

Ray Finkle still goes on twitter everyday to tweet at Dan Marino.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NCOGH–E_80

2) Brett Favre – Something about Mary

The sketchy text message QB legend was famous for not being able to close the deal with Cameron Diaz.

3) Jim Brown – Any Given Sunday / Dirty Dozen

http://youtube.com/watch?v=l3jBA6i8oMQ

4) Lawrence Taylor – Any Given Sunday

5) OJ Simpson – Naked Gun

6) The Rock

While the Rock was never an NFL player, the former Hurricane has certainly left his mark in the movies since leaving from the WWE.

About Shane Clemons

Shane Clemons came from humble beginnings creating his own Jaguars blog before moving on to SBNation as a featured writer for the Jaguars. He then moved to Bloguin where he briefly covered the AFC South before taking over Bloguin's Jaguars blog. Since the inception of This Given Sunday, Shane has served as an editor for the site, doing his best not to mess up a good thing.

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