In Fiction
In the Season 7 Entourage episode "Buzzed", the fictional Hollywood agent Ari Gold is offered to run an NFL franchise in Los Angeles after he impresses the NFL board, but fails to win the contract to sell the NFL media rights.
In the 1984 film Against All Odds, Jeff Bridges's character plays for a fictional team, the L.A. Outlaws.
The 1991 action film The Last Boy Scout revolves around a fictional team, the L.A. Stallions.
In the 1978 film Heaven Can Wait, Warren Beatty is the quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams.
The 2011 book Between the Lies by Marv Levy has a fictional NFL team from Los Angeles called the Los Angeles Leopards as one of the best teams in the NFL, along with the Portland Pioneers.
The 2008 Midway Games video game Blitz: The League II featured a team called the L.A. Riot who played in Los Angeles and was the antagonist to the player-created team.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)