A drill instructor singles out the football stars in The Mosquito Bowl

Peter Berg adapts Buzz Bissinger's account of college players who enlisted after Pearl Harbor, with Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson and Tom Francis in the cast.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 887,462 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (69,759).

The Mosquito Bowl | Official Trailer | Netflix

"Who else was big-time football players? Raise your hand!" A boot camp drill instructor barks the question at a smiling recruit, and it sums up the premise of The Mosquito Bowl: young men who were famous on the field, starting over as Marines.

The trailer opens with a commanding officer offering no comfort. "I would love to tell you there will be no more casualties," he says. "That's not true." From there it cuts between enlistment clerks typing up last names, amphibious landings under fire and flashbacks to packed stadiums. One recruit wants to play for the New York Giants. Another just wants to "live the hell out of my life." Late in the trailer, a Marine puts it another way: "This is us sacrificing for the unborn."

The director is Peter Berg, who made Friday Night Lights and Lone Survivor, so football and military combat are both familiar ground for him. The tags credit Buzz Bissinger, whose nonfiction book The Mosquito Bowl tells the story of a game played on Guadalcanal on Christmas Eve 1944 between two Marine regiments full of former college stars. Ray Nicholson, Jack Nicholson's son, joins Galitzine, Skarsgård and Francis among the leads.

Netflix posted five trailers and teasers the same day, including a holiday film starring Dennis Quaid and the dance-team mystery The Body. This one ran far ahead of them, with about 736,000 views in 16 hours. Its comment section has already collected more than ten times the comments a typical upload of this length gets in a full day.

The comments return again and again to Saving Private Ryan. Many viewers say the cast is their reason to watch, and quite a few were thrown by a familiar face they believe is Pat McAfee playing a drill instructor. The "unborn" line comes up repeatedly too.

The film opens in theaters October 30 and comes to Netflix on November 25.

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The numbers

Among a day of new Netflix trailers, this one pulled well clear of the rest, and its comment section filled up even faster than its view count.

the video's first day

usual first day here

69,759

this video

887,462

subscribers

33,700,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

11,680,359,017

views per day

2,974,761

typical day: 5,485,917

the video

views

736,163

likes

4,035

comments

566

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Netflix

33,700,000

Gordon Ramsay

22,000,000

BBC

15,700,000

HISTORY

15,500,000

Dropout

15,300,000

Comedy Central

12,600,000

As of October 13, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.