I checked out the Any Given Sunday Wikipedia page for any extra info on the production, and it didn’t really have much to offer except that part of it was loosely based on a book, also the NFL wouldn’t allow them to use real team names so they had to make them up. The one interesting thing I did find was that to film games, they got local schools to be extras and had them move around so it seemed full, but that for the empty seats, they used cardboard cutouts attached to balloons so that they appeared to be moving. For the genre, I guess it could fall into a “sports drama” if that’s allowed, leaning more towards drama than sports because even though football is what the film revolves around, it more focuses on interactions between people rather than the semantics of the game (and Wiki says it’s a drama).
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