How 'MVP' spotlights the connections between military vets and retired athletes
LOS ANGELES — Nate Boyer and Jay Glazer have developed the type of relationship where one friend can come home to the surprise of having the other directing a full-blown movie production in their house without their knowledge.
"I walk into my house one day... He basically broke into my house and started filming. It was basically transformed. There was a whole bunch of people in there,'" said Glazer. "It was not like a little thing, [it was] an entire movie set."
The Fox Sports National Football League reporter-analyst-insider had approved the shoot, but he was just not exactly sure when it would be happening. The location is key for the film, titled "MVP," because it's where Glazer and Boyer began to form the idea for the unique outreach program of the same name.
"Beyond himsay we could do it — you see Unbreakable Performance Center, Jay's gym, in the movie," says Boyer, a former Green Beret and Seattle Seahawk who was also in the spotlight for his friendship with quarterback Colin Kaepernick. It was Boyer who advised him to kneel during the national anthem in protest of police brutality.
