Former Chiefs QB Matt Moore was consultant on Top Gun: Maverick

Former Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Matt Moore was a consultant for the blockbuster new Top Gun sequel for a beach football sequence.

If you’ve not yet seen the long-awaited sequel to Top Gun yet this summer, entitled Top Gun: Maverick, then you’ve not completed the bucket list for a successful season. The movie has been lauded by fans and critics alike and the movie is a ton of fun with big-budget flight scenes worth getting out into theaters to see it.

What you might not have realized is that a former quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs helped make the movie as a sort of football consultant. Matt Moore was considered a “football coordinator” on the set of the global hit film, a former NFL veteran brought on board a movie’s production in order to make sure to get the feel right of a segment of the film wherein the characters play a round of beach football.

Actor Danny Ramirez, who plays FanBoy in the movie, was the one who pointed out Moore’s position on Twitter last week.

Just like everything else in the movie, the football scene is a fun part of the camaraderie that the movie builds around the team of pilots who come together for the key mission at the heart of Top Gun’s plot line.

Moore played in the NFL from 2007 to 2019, spending his last season in the league with the Chiefs as an extra veteran backup to work behind Patrick Mahomes when Chad Henne was injured. Moore actually played in six games for the Chiefs in ’19 and started two of them and threw 4 touchdowns and zero interceptions in 91 passing attempts while leading the Chiefs to a 1-1 record in that short span.