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would be to actually be Chris Applebaum.

He’s done a million cool music videos as well as some very cool commercials. Check out Paris.

Well, not really. But it’s kinda funny:

Dartmouth’s Brian Mann Serves as Double for Adam Sandler in “The Longest Yard”

HANOVER, N.H. — In the upcoming re-make of the 1974 comedy classic “The Longest Yard,” former Dartmouth quarterback Brian Mann ‘02 serves as a stand-in for Adam Sandler. The film, which also stars comedian Chris Rock and Burt Reynolds, opens nationally on May 27.

Mann, currently a backup quarterback with the Los Angeles Avengers of the Arena Football League, had a chance to audition for the role last summer. The Avengers are the only professional team in Los Angeles and since college players would lose their eligibility and Los Angeles’ starting quarterback is left-handed, Mann was next in line to try out. Since his body type and looks are close enough to Sandler’s, the Big Green alumnus got the job.

In order to make the football action realistic, Mann threw more than half of the passes in the film, but he also had the unenviable task of having to endure bone-crushing hits from Romanowski and Bosworth. Sandler worked with former NFL quarterback Sean Salisbury on throwing and moving like a quarterback and well-known sports coordinator Mark Ellis, who had previously worked on “Friday Night Lights” and “Any Given Sunday,” was hired to make the football scenes as authentic as possible.