Your 5 Favorite Sports Movies

[CouchCoach]

First of all, as your OP, allow me to welcome you to this thread and I hope you enjoy your stay and remember to tip the bathroom attendants. (That's a race track reference)

I love sports movies and while I do not follow baseball much, baseball movies are top dogs for me. I also get seasonal with watching and will start my collection of football movies in August but I have been known to watch my baseball ones in April and October to open and close the season.

Now, we could have two separate categories, if you like, with based on real events and based on fictional characters.

My Top 5 Real, and so far the most important 5 in this thread, are:

Remember the Titans
Glory Road
The Perfect Game
*61
Cinderella Man

Fiction

Hoosiers
The Replacements
Major League
Rocky
The Natural

Ok, your turn but the judges decision will be final.

 

[jsb357]

define sports movies...

Hoosiers
The Natural
Field of Dreams
The Last Boy Scout
The Longest Yard (burt)

Friday Night Lights was pretty good. (movie not series)

 

[CouchCoach]

define sports movies...

Hoosiers
The Natural
Field of Dreams
The Last Boy Scout
The Longest Yard (burt)

Friday Night Lights was pretty good. (movie not series)

Well, Last Boy Scout is about an ex football player but that's not really all about the sport and neither is Longest Yard, that's about a game that takes place in a prison. Since you are the first visitor to this thread, you can replace those two without any penalty.

 

[Quickdraw]

We are Marshall was a decent movie. Alright, alright, alright....

Fictional would be Necessary Roughness with Kathy Ireland. Yowza!

 

[lukin2006]

The Longest Yard
Miracle
Field of Dreams
Brians Song
Friday Night Lights

 

[Tabascocat]

Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
Hoosiers
Slap Shot
Eight Men Out

Honorable mention

Tin Cup
Miracle
Happy Gilmore
Rudy
The Natural
The Perfect Game
North Dallas Forty
Caddyshack
Rocky

I could still go on......

 

[jsb357]

Well, Last Boy Scout is about an ex football player but that's not really all about the sport and neither is Longest Yard, that's about a game that takes place in a prison. Since you are the first visitor to this thread, you can replace those two without any penalty.

Hoosiers
The Natural
Field of Dreams
Friday Night Lights
Major League

 

[blindzebra]

First of all, as your OP, allow me to welcome you to this thread and I hope you enjoy your stay and remember to tip the bathroom attendants. (That's a race track reference)

I love sports movies and while I do not follow baseball much, baseball movies are top dogs for me. I also get seasonal with watching and will start my collection of football movies in August but I have been known to watch my baseball ones in April and October to open and close the season.

Now, we could have two separate categories, if you like, with based on real events and based on fictional characters.

My Top 5 Real, and so far the most important 5 in this thread, are:

Remember the Titans
Glory Road
The Perfect Game
*61
Cinderella Man

Fiction

Hoosiers
The Replacements
Major League
Rocky
The Natural

Ok, your turn but the judges decision will be final.

Hoosiers is a true story.

 

[blindzebra]

Going to base it on if it is on I am watching it:

Hoosiers
Rudy
Miracle
Kingpin
Bull Durham

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

Riding Giants (I've never surfed in my life and have no desire, but this is a killer movie)
Kingpin
The Natural
Rudy, Rudy, Rudy
Caddyshack

 

[blindzebra]

Another good one is Dodgeball.

 

[CouchCoach]

The Longest Yard
Miracle
Field of Dreams
Brians Song
Friday Night Lights

lukin, based on the thread you stated, I'd leave Brian's Song alone and get into Major League or The Replacements. Brian's Song made Pollyanna to tell life to **** off.

 

[CouchCoach]

Hoosiers is a true story.

Very loosely based with a lot of changes in the story. But technically, you are correct. But that's about as close to the real details as The Replacements is to the strike season,.

 

[CouchCoach]

We are Marshall was a decent movie. Alright, alright, alright....

Fictional would be Necessary Roughness with Kathy Ireland. Yowza!

We went to see Marshall and my wife said his quirky actions annoyed her and I laughed and told her that's how the real coach was, I remember seeing some interviews with him, a very colorful guy. It's like When the Game Stands Tall, Caviezel is a much more creative actor that that. That's the challenge of doing biopics, if they want to stay true to the story. The real coach was boring as hell and mo0re like a science teacher than a coach.

 

[Runwildboys]

Major League
Dodgeball
Necessary Roughness
Million Dollar Baby
Stick It

 

[cowboyec]

•Speedway
•Kid Gallahad
•Rocky
•Brian's Song
•North Dallas Forty

 

[cowboyec]

All-Elvis List
•Speedway
•Kid Gallahad
•Spinout
•Viva Las Vegas
•Clambake

 

[Kevinicus]

A League of Their Own
Major League
Rudy
Remember the Titans
Rocky

Notables:

Kingpin - would have made it if I considered bowling a sport.
Dodgeball
Miracle
Necessary Roughness
Hoosiers

 

[GMO415]

The Program
Remember the Titans

 

[cowboyec]

5 others I Love
•Rocky II
•Rocky III
•Rocky IV
•Rudy
•All The Right Moves