{"id":708130,"date":"2026-01-27T05:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/708130\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T05:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:08:16","slug":"sam-darnolds-second-act-for-the-ages-is-in-search-of-its-hollywood-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/708130\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Darnold&#8217;s second act for the ages is in search of its Hollywood ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least Sam Darnold didn\u2019t have to play board games. Not that we know about, anyway. Across the next two weeks Darnold\u2019s rise and fall and rise will be detailed to death, so who knows? Maybe somewhere along his remarkable journey from New York to Charlotte to San Francisco to Minneapolis to Seattle, we\u2019ll discover a few crazy anecdotes.<\/p>\n<p>John Travolta, he needed to play board games. Travolta\u2019s career in movies was flat-lining in the early 1990s. He was unhirable. Once one of the youngest bankable stars in Hollywood history, he\u2019d become so toxic that people thought Quentin Tarantino was kidding when he talked about casting Travolta as Vincent Vega in \u201cPulp Fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tarantino needed to know the fight would be worth the effort. So he invited Travolta over to his house for dinner. But the supper was just a prelude.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen,\u201d Travolta remembered in 2004, \u201che wanted to play games.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least Sam Darnold didn\u2019t have to play board games. Not that we know about, anyway. Across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,255,6,84,236,1878,261,9,2833,3248,505,41484],"class_list":{"0":"post-708130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolinapanthers","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-new-york-jets","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nfl-playoffs","15":"tag-panthers","16":"tag-sam-darnold","17":"tag-seattle-seahawks","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-columnists","20":"tag-sports-plus","21":"tag-super-bowl","22":"tag-super-bowl-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115965336280639688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}