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Plot. In 1976, Jackie Moon is a singer who used the profits from his one-hit wonder, "Love Me Sexy", to buy a basketball team in the American Basketball Association (ABA), the Flint Tropics, becoming the owner, head coach, starting power forward, and pre-game announcer.
Semi-Pro: Directed by Kent Alterman. With Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, André 3000, Maura Tierney. Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true.
The Flint Tropics is the name of Will Ferrell's fictional basketball team in "Semi-Pro." But why The Tropics? Ferrell says this in a recent interview with Sports...
In 1976, singer Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell) uses the profits from his only hit single to fulfill a longtime dream of owning a basketball team. His team, the Flint Michigan Tropics, is the worst...
Directed by Kent Alterman, ‘Semi-Pro’ is a sports comedy film revolving around a singer named Jackie Moon in 1976. Using the money he has garnered thanks to his music career, he decides to buy a basketball team named Flint Tropics in the American Basketball Association (ABA).
“Semi-Pro” is the comedic story of the Flint Tropics, a fictitious ABA team that didnt quite make it. The Tropics bear similarities to some of the defunct teams of the ABA–the Kentucky Colonels, the Anaheim Amigos and the Spirits of St. Louis.
Flint, Michigan. Many pivotal sequences for ‘Semi-Pro’ were lensed in Flint, the largest city and county seat of Genesee County in Michigan. The Top Hat Auto Wash at 950 West Hemphill Road serves as the workplace of one of the Tropics’ players on-screen.
So who is Jackie Moon? Can rap star Andre 3000 really play hoops? Is Woody Harrelson the shortest point guard in the history of basketball films? Read The Flint Journal's spoiler-free "Semi-Pro"...
A long journey with the Flint Tropics comes to an exciting end as we try to win more championships! Whole Flint Tropics Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/pla...
Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell) is the owner, promoter, coach, and star player of the Flint Michigan Tropics of the American Basketball Association. In 1976 before the ABA collapse, the National Basketball Association plans to merge with the best teams of the ABA at the end of the season.