Fox Sports: Packers players dance, 'sing about butts' in upcoming 'Pitch Perfect 2'

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This counts as Around the NFL, right?

http://www.foxsports.com/wisconsin/story/packers-players-dance-sing-about-butts-in-upcoming-pitch-perfect-2-movie-112014

 

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- It all started with a tweet. Green Bay Packers left tackle David Bakhtiari professed his love for the 2012 hit-movie musical "Pitch Perfect." The Twitter account of the 6-foot-4, 310-pound offensive lineman was soon filled with postings about it, mentioning the stars of the film in an effort to get their attention.

It worked.

Husband-and-wife producers Max Handelman and Elizabeth Banks had a sequel in the works, and they decided it was worth it to begin following Bakhtiari on Twitter. Handelman then reached out to Bakhtiari, and the writers found a way for "Pitch Perfect 2" to include Bakhtiari and several other Packers players in it.

When the trailer was released Thursday, there were offensive linemen Josh Sitton and T.J. Lang front and center, ripping the sleeves off of linebacker Clay Matthews, while Bakhtiari shouted an emphatic, "Let's go!" behind them.

"We were able to orchestrate the whole thing; it was pretty awesome," Bakhtiari said in the locker room. "Really proud of how it was able to come to fruition."

The original "Pitch Perfect" was a piece of pop culture that brought Green Bay's offensive line together, even though Lang was skeptical about the movie at first.

"To me that always looked like a chick flick," Lang said.

Now, Lang has seen it at least 20-30 times and knows every word.

"It's just a good movie, man," Lang said. "I've turned into a big fan."

As Handelman coordinated with Bakhtiari about their potential role in the sequel, there was one missing piece to the puzzle: getting Matthews on board. Matthews was the player whose biceps the producers wanted to be flexed on-screen to lead to co-star Rebel Wilson saying, "I could be the ham in that man sandwich."

"Yeah, I had to do a little convincing with (Matthews)," Bakhtiari said. "I had to tell him the benefits of it, and he was on board with it. He had seen the movie, he just needed to re-watch it again. We were training together, and after he watched it again, he was like, 'OK. Definitely. I'm definitely in.'"

Matthews is glad Bakhtiari convinced him.

"David Bakhtiari and his affinity for social media and reaching out to other people, in weird direct messages and replies, was somehow able to get in the right touch with other people and to me like that," Matthews said. "So I thank him for his creepiness."

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[Momma There Goes That Man]

They showed the trailer for this during The Hunger Games yesterday. I had no idea until I saw Clay Matthews ripping off his sleeves and then I didn't realize there were other Packers in it as well.

I thought the first one was pretty funny actually. I'm sure the wife will make sure we check this one out too.

[Ghost of]

They showed the trailer for this during The Hunger Games yesterday. I had no idea until I saw Clay Matthews ripping off his sleeves and then I didn't realize there were other Packers in it as well.

I thought the first one was pretty funny actually. I'm sure the wife will make sure we check this one out too.

 

God, if I could tell you about how I had to sit there and watch this thing, mainly for the cup song (my girl used to sing it before I ever saw the movie)  Was it bad? no, I guess not for what it was.  Do I need to see the sequel?

 

Probably.  I have a choice when it comes to important things, like showing emotion or giving gifts or basically alpha *** **** like not GAF.  But watching films like that? On occasion it means even the most lantern-jawed, virile men must make a woman happy.

[Momma There Goes That Man]

^^^ I already told her, she's on her own when 50 Shades comes out. That's one for the girlfriends...

[Ghost of]

^^^ I already told her, she's on her own when 50 Shades comes out. That's one for the girlfriends...

See 50 Shades is where I put the foot down.  Besides the fact it was originally Twilight fan-fic, there is the fact that it shows for me a deep-seated aspect of the feminine nature I already know.  BUt I think it also celebrates it in an unhealthy way and it's not like society is learning the lessons therein, it's just another piece of entertainment trash, therefore it harms my woman's ability to be a good and moral mother (I'm going to overlook the Magic Mike viewing) and I can't allow it.

 

it's bad enough she has a few tattoos.