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KENNY CHESNEY FINISHES FOOTBALL DOCUMENTARY


Kenny Chesney has wrapped up work on his very first documentary. He chose a subject that is near and dear to his heart -- high school football. The film, called The Boys Of Fall, has been in the works for the last year. Kenny wanted to show the power and passion of high school football both in the moment and throughout one's life. He has drawn on his longstanding relationships with some of football's most success players and coaches, including winning Superbowl coach Sean Payton, John Madden, Brett Favre, Troy Aikman, the former University of Tennessee's Phil Fulmer and University of Alabama's Nick Saban and Bobby Bowden, as well as high school coaches from Illinois, Texas and Tennessee.

Kenny developed his own passion for football as a teenager playing on the team at Gibbs High in Luttrell, Tennessee. Kenny said, "I was the starting wide receiver, which tells you how great we were. And I quit growing my freshman year. But I now know why we practiced longer, why our coach put us through double practices in the summer heat . . . all those things he put us through. It was to teach us things me and everybody on our team has used to become the people we are."

He added, "Anyone who knows me knows how much I look to football, the lessons learned, the experiences, the feelings as a map for living life, having a music career, being the kind of man I want to be. When I was looking for songs for my album, someone pitched me 'The Boys of Fall' and it struck me as everything I think and feel about that experience... and that song was like striking a match!"

There are no further details yet on the release of The Boys Of Fall.

Kenny's next concert dates this summer are on July 2nd and 3rd at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

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