Popeye Popeye and Olive are attending a football game; Bluto's team takes the field, and Olive is swept off her feet, becoming a cheerleader for him. Popeye signs up and becomes quarterback of the opposing team, which is skinny and pathetic looking, compared to Bluto's team of huge bruisers. Things go badly, of course, until Popeye eats his spinach and becomes a whole football team himself, winning both the game and Olive.
You Gotta Be A Football Hero is one of the most famous and widely recorded football anthems of all-time. The song was written In 1933 by Al Lewis and Al Sherman. Al Sherman was the father of and mentor of Richard and Robert (The Sherman Brothers), who would later be well-known Disney songwriters - famously known for writing It's A Small World and for writing the music of Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and many others. In 1935, You Gotta Be A Football Hero was the title and plot basis of the 25th Popeye cartoon. It was the last cartoon where Popeye was voiced by William Costello. In following cartoons from the series, Popeye was voiced by Jack Mercer - who would marry his co-star Margie Hines in 1939. Hines, who was the first and last to voice Betty Boop, had taken over as Olive Oyl's voice in 1938.
