Dave Stadt wrote:

Wasn't that a Burt Reynolds movie about convicts playing football?

He star'd in both of them...

He was most certainly not in the Longest Day.

I agree, but he was in both of the "Longest Yard" movies...

The Longest Yard (1974)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0071771

The Longest Yard (2005)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0398165