A reader:

“If you want to learn arcane things about footbal, here is one from the movie [i.e. Invincible ] (which I haven’t seen yet, but I already know the end of the story because I’m an Eagles fan and remember him playing for them). In the movie, Papale scores a touchdown by recovering a fumble on a punt return. When a player is fielding a punt & drops the ball, it’s called a muff, not a fumble. The kicking team can’t advance a muff, but can fall on the ball and recover possession. The Eagles did win a game after Papale knocked a ball loose on a punt and recovered it, but it took a couple plays to do it. Of course, a little fiction for the sake of the story is okay; who would know from Shakespeare that Macbeth actually ran Scotland for almost 20 years? FWIW, Papale’s career ended at the end of his third year after he insisted on being put back into a game after a shoulder injury and really messed up his shoulder.”

[Derb] There is some revisionist history on Macbeth, arguing that he was, in fact, a good egg. Wikipedia : “Marianus Scotus tells how the king made a pilgrimage to Rome in 1050, where, Marianus says, he gave money to the poor as if it were seed. … Unlike later writers, no near contemporary source remarks on Mac Bethad as a tyrant. The Duan Albanach, which survives in a form dating to the reign of Máel Coluim (III) mac Donnchada calls him ‘Mac Bethad the renowned.’ The Prophecy of Berchán, a verse history which purports to be a prophecy, describes him as ‘the generous king of Fortriu,’ and says: ‘The red, tall, golden-haired one, he will be pleasant to me among them; Scotland will be brimful west and east during the reign of the furious red one.’”

I don’t know what to make of this–ask a historian. Pretty much any traditional historical villain has a cheering section of revisionist historians somewhere–certainly Richard III has. There must have been some truly bad hats, though.