Here Come the Tigers
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Oct 14, 2026
Ari LehmanGUEST
They had been in Sean Cunningham's first play.
Ari LehmanGUEST
kind of comedy attempt, which was called Here Come the Tigers, which was a Bad News Bears ripoff.
Ari LehmanGUEST
Okay.
Ari LehmanGUEST
That got him the money to make Manny's Orphans, which was basically the similar story, but about soccer.
Ari LehmanGUEST
It was Johnny and Bobby Basili who I went to school with.
Ari LehmanGUEST
[laughs] Sean Cunningham lived in Westport, Connecticut, where I grew up, and Sean had done a film called Here Come the Tigers, which was basically a remake of The Bad News Bears.
Ari LehmanGUEST
He wanted to do another film about soccer players, and it was basically, again, it was kind of like The Sandlot.
Ari LehmanGUEST
That's the movie that I auditioned for.