Sean Payton, whose New Orleans Saints were favorites in the NFC last year and managed to miss the playoffs, has written himself a little screenplay. And, to be perfectly honest, it’s worse than his secondary against a Falcons team they were favored by 4 points against last year. The script:

The movie, currently titled “The Xbox Kid,” is about a boy from a poor family in New Orleans who starts controlling the outcome of NFL games through a refurbished Xbox given to him by his grandfather following a devastating hurricane.

Payton said the idea came to him when his son Connor would play upcoming Saints games on his Xbox during the 2006 season.

“I just wrote about four pages, piddling around with it,” said Payton, who later turned the idea over to a professional screen writer to flesh it out.

I don’t doubt this movie will one day be a major motion picture. Movies like Dreamcatcher have slipped through the cracks before. And people have wasted $10 and two hours of their lives on terrible shit like Changing Lanes, starring Ben Affleck and a ton of boredom. So a kid’s Xbox determining the outcome of the games really isn’t all that far fetched.

[Fan IQ]