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A retired police officer goes to the current-day Army/Navy football game with his two wacky friends intending to jump onto the field and score a touchdown he should’ve scored decades ago when he fumbled during the same football classic as time ran out, only this time dozens of security guards await him, and it’ll be a friggin’ miracle if he succeeds.

Written by:

Robert Gately

Contact Author

Format:

Screenplay

Genres:

Sports

Posted:

08/19/2003

Updated:

11/10/2024

Author Bio:

Since retiring early in 1998, Robert has written 2 novels, 2 non-fiction books, 10 novellas,12 screenplays and 3 stage plays. His body of work has been recognized in over 300 festival, stage, book and screenplay competitions around the world (over 180 of those were finalist or better). The finalist or better placements include book, screen and stage play successes in Faulkner/Wisdom Creative Writing contest, Norumbego Fiction Award, Chesterfield, Writer's Network, Dana Awards, Frontiers in Writing, SFWP (Santa Fe), etc. Of these, Robert has won 28 contests and came in 2nd place in 21 others (e.g., Spirit Quest, Breckenridge, Telluride, Fade In Magazine, Garden State Film Festival, etc.) His short play was produced at the BaCCA Performing Arts Center at a One Act Festival on Long Island, and his longer stage plays won a reading series at Abingdon Theatre in NYC and Ohio State University and, when his writing buddy joined the mix, one of his manuscripts won the stage play category in the London Film Awards, the Chicago Screenplay Contest, and American Movie Awards. Four of his scripts appear on the moviebytes.com ‘top ten’ listings 9 times, and he has the winningest stage play on that same site. He taught screenwriting 101 at the local community college and was one of the Temple University judges for the Freese Award screenwriting competition. Website: www.rgately.com; email: gately@verizon.net

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Contest Results:

Indie Gathering (First Place, drama/comedy) [2009]
Filmmatic Comedy (Semifinalist) [2020]
American Movie Awards (First Place) [2016]
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Indie Gathering (First Place, drama/comedy) [2009]
Filmmatic Comedy (Semifinalist) [2020]
American Movie Awards (First Place) [2016]
The-GreenLight.com Monthly (First Place) [2009]
Fade In (First Place, comedy) [2000]
Telluride Indie (First Place) [2001]
Split-Screenplay (First Place) [2005]
Woods Hole (First Place) [2003]
ZoieFest (First Place) [2005]
WriteMovies Monthly (WMCm) (First Place, March 2007) [2007]
Seventh Dimension (First Place, never paid prize) [2005]
Garden State (First Place) [2008]
GAFFERS (Second Place) [2007]
Phoenix Short Screenplay (Second Place) [2005]
Breckenridge (Second Place) [2001]
Hollywood Scriptwriting (Second Place) [2000]
Pocono (Second Place, first runner-up) [2003]
PAGE International (Semifinalist) [2004]
Twin Rivers (Third Place) [2009]
Table Read (Semifinalist) [2013]
L.A. Cinema Film Fest (Finalist, aka codgertown merit winner ) [2011]
Charleston International (Finalist) [2010]
Hollywood Drama (Finalist, aka codgertown; 5th place) [2014]
California (Finalist, aka codgertown) [2010]
American Zoetrope (Quarterfinalist, aka codgertown) [2010]
Worldfest - Houston (Finalist) [2004]
Writer's Digest (Finalist, 78th annual ) [2013]
Extreme Feature (Finalist, I also got a semifinalist spot in 2006) [2013]
Script Savvy (Finalist, in the top five ) [2008]
Moondance (Finalist) [2007]
Austin Fest Film (Quarterfinalist) [2008]
Movie Script/Feature (Finalist) [2008]
Open Curtain (Finalist) [2008]
StoryPros International (Semifinalist, also 2008) [2009]
Impractical Venture (Finalist) [2004]
Screenplay Festival (Semifinalist) [2003]
New Century (Finalist, Stage and screenplay) [2002]
Queens (Finalist, placed in 2005 also) [2007]
Contest of Contest Winners (Finalist) [2005]
Great American Student (Finalist) [2005]
Red Inkworks (Finalist, and 2008) [2007]
Blazing Quill (Finalist) [2007]
Writer's Desk (Finalist, Little Lip Productions) [2007]
Progress Writers (Finalist) [2007]
Wildsound (Finalist) [2007]
New Jersey (Finalist, final four) [2006]
Sound Heritage (Finalist) [2007]
River City (Finalist) [2007]
New Hope (Finalist, for 111-page screenplay) [2015]
Beverly Hills Screenplay (Finalist) [2014]
Marquee Lights (Finalist) [2014]
Aura Screenwriter Awards (Finalist) [2014]
Hoboken Fest (Finalist) [2015]
Colorado Fest (Finalist) [2015]
Tennessee (Semifinalist) [2007]
Nevada Film Office (Semifinalist) [2006]
Landlocked (Semifinalist) [2007]
scriptrep.com (Semifinalist) [2002]
Barrier Magazine (Semifinalist) [2002]
Winner Take All (Semifinalist) [2002]
WriteMovies (Semifinalist, stage play version) [2003]
New Pro. Theater (Semifinalist, Stage play version) [2003]
Anything But Hollywood (Semifinalist) [2004]
Chesterfield (Semifinalist) [2003]
American Screenwriting (Semifinalist, Flatshoe) [2004]
Writers Network Screenplay & Fiction Competition (Semifinalist, for the feature screenplay) [2003]
Bare Bones (Semifinalist) [2009]
Mountain Film (Semifinalist) [2010]
All Sports (Semifinalist, aka codgertown) [2010]
SCRIPTOID Feature (Semifinalist, aka codgertown) [2010]
Filmshift (Semifinalist, 2010 top 15 aka codgertown) [2010]
The-GreenLight.com (Semifinalist, 2010 aka codgertown) [2010]
Screenplay Search (Semifinalist, aka codgertown ) [2013]
British Feature (Semifinalist) [2010]
WeScreenplay Feature (Quarterfinalist, aka codgertown) [2014]
Austin Indie Flix (Semifinalist) [2014]
Courier (Semifinalist) [2014]
Richmond Fest (Quarterfinalist, aka codgertown) [2014]
Cash Pot (Semifinalist, codgertown) [2014]
FilmMakers/Feature (Honorable Mention) [2004]
Reel Authors (Quarterfinalist) [2012]
A Film Writer Screenplay (Quarterfinalist) [2013]
Back in the Box (Quarterfinalist) [2009]
Acclaim Film (Quarterfinalist) [2008]
AAA (Quarterfinalist) [2007]
Project Greenlight (Quarterfinalist) [2004]
Get Initiative (Honorable Mention) [2004]
Expose It! (Quarterfinalist) [2004]
Screenwriting Expo (Quarterfinalist) [2002]
American Accolades (Quarterfinalist) [2001]
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