Was he at all believable in the role?
I have a buddy whose hangup with it is Jamie Foxx as a QB. The movie is not based in reality. What Stone film is? Maybe I am crazy (no maybe about it actually) but I thought Pacino's speech at the end was pretty good. I thought Jamie Foxx's character was funny. I thought LT was convincing (go figure.) It was good junk. Let's put it that way. That's the only Stone film I can think of that I liked at all. I like Dennis Quaid, too.
Not even a little bit.
Cameron Diaz is awful in it, as well.
In ANY GIVEN SUNDAY, Al Pacino palyed an NFL coach who seemed to do most of his Sunday evening through Saturday evening game prep at a bar. Yes, just like Bill Belichik and Bill Parcells do! Further, we were submitted to lectures from characters played by LT and Jim Brown on the value of character. Finally, the owner was played by Cameron Diaz(!). The only really good scenes were (1) when the Jim Rome character got punched by the Pacino character and (2) Charlton Heston's cameo.