Gus (1976 film)

Gus is a 1976 American film by Walt Disney Productions. Its center character is Gus, a footballplaying mule.

The film opens with a soccer game, and the Petrovic family watching their son Stepjan win the soccer game. Their other son Andy Petrovic works on his farm in Yugoslavia, and cant play soccer at all. A soccer ball is behind his mule, Gus. After saying that he never wants to see a soccer ball again, Gus kicks the soccer ball a long distance. Andy tries it with him and he says, Oyage and Gus kicks the ball. Note there is fierce debate in the Gus fan community re the spelling of Oyage. Some spell it Oyatch, while others give it a more Yugoslaviansounding OjigdzMeanwhile, the California Atoms are a professional football team in Los Angeles, owned by Hank Cooper Ed Asner and coached by the inept Coach Venner Don Knotts. They are by far the worst team in the league and have not won a single game in years. Their cheerleaders are fat and ugly, and even the marching band is awful. Desperate to draw fans in somehow, Cooper wants a great half time show. His secretary, Debbie Louise Liberty Williams, sees a story in her parents Yugoslavian newspaper about Gus, a mule that can kick a soccer ball through the goal from anywhere on the field. ........

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