This will be a punch line if his Saints struggle in 2009. Or it will be viewed as a sign of his outside-the-box genius if his team gets back to the playoffs. Either way, New Orleans coach Sean Payton is shopping a movie project.
Times-Picayune reporter Mike Triplett has the story:
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.
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