HAMPTON, Virginia -- New Hampton University football coach Connell Maynor is a colorful character with a successful track record and a thousand stories. Some of the best are from his movie extra work on “Any Given Sunday” and “Remember the Titans.”Maynor’s movie work was mentioned in the lengthy profile in Sunday’s newspaper and on the website, but details and quotes were omitted for reasons of space and story flow.
Maynor played quarterback for the Orlando Predators of the Arena League in 1999 when teammate and fellow quarterback Pat O’Hara told him of a pro football movie being cast in south Florida: the big-budget flick by famed director Oliver Stone, “Any Given Sunday.”
O’Hara previously worked on “The Waterboy,” and the same guy casting for football players from the Adam Sandler movie needed extras for Stone’s movie.
The football casting guy told O’Hara that they needed a ...
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