December 10, 2021 | R | 1h 56m “National Champions” is a crackling, high-voltage, testosterone-intensive sports drama about college football, where nary a down of football is played, and yet you can’t look away for the entire two-hour runtime. That’s a pretty neat trick. So what’s the premise? Unionization. A recent presidential hopeful wanted to double union membership in America, while the more conservatively inclined know unions to be one of the many insidious tools of communism. Is there ever a time when organizing is a good thing? History has demonstrated that protected union workers become prone to the temptation of exploiting the system and getting lazy. But what about the idea that college student athletes are an endless supply of free labor, who line the pockets of management, coaches, and commissioners with multibillions but who themselves (albeit rewarded with valuable scholarships) see not a dime of it? And what …