Do You Want to be Uncle Rico?

Back in ’82, he used to be able to throw a pigskin a quarter mile.

Photo: Paramount Pictures

Do you remember Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite? He’s middle-aged, living out of a 1975 Dodge Tradesman van and hopelessly stuck in the past. His whole life is framed by a high school football disappointment:

“If Coach woulda put me in fourth quarter, we would’ve been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind. I’d…