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By Sharon Lee
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A real-life story of football, war, sacrifice, and brotherhood hits the big screen this weekend — and it’s likely to generate special interest here in Georgia, where college football reigns supreme.Netflix’s "The Mosquito Bowl" centers on four real-life college football players who enlisted in the U.S. Marines following the attack on Pearl Harbor, and ended up playing in a legendary Christmas Eve football game on the island of Guadalcanal. The epic World War II film is directed by Peter Berg and stars Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson, and Tom Francis.Ahead of the theatrical release, Berg, Nicholson, and Francis stopped by Atlanta’s Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame to pay tribute to the men whose stories are told in the film."Understanding him and coming to terms with him as a human being has completely changed my life," Francis says of Dave Schreiner, his character in the movie and a real-life inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame. "You know, his num