Best Sports Movie Ever?
math4cards
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What is your favorite sports movie in each sport?
Boxing - Rocky Balboa (Rocky 6) - Loved it - combined the best qualities of Rocky 1 with the action of 3 and 4.
Golf - The Legend of Bagger Vance - Will Smith was incredible and Charlize Theron is HOT! Happy Gilmore is close.
Baseball - Major League 1 - also liked Mr. 3000 and of course Pride of the Yankees.
Football - The Longest Yard - both - but honorable mention to the TNT movie Second String - the Bills actually win the bowl!
Hockey - It's a stretch - but Bruce Almighty - The Sabres actually win a cup!
Basketball - Hoosiers - honorable mention Celtic Pride - the movie sucked - but the Jazz finally get their championship!
Boxing - Rocky Balboa (Rocky 6) - Loved it - combined the best qualities of Rocky 1 with the action of 3 and 4.
Golf - The Legend of Bagger Vance - Will Smith was incredible and Charlize Theron is HOT! Happy Gilmore is close.
Baseball - Major League 1 - also liked Mr. 3000 and of course Pride of the Yankees.
Football - The Longest Yard - both - but honorable mention to the TNT movie Second String - the Bills actually win the bowl!
Hockey - It's a stretch - but Bruce Almighty - The Sabres actually win a cup!
Basketball - Hoosiers - honorable mention Celtic Pride - the movie sucked - but the Jazz finally get their championship!
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Football- Knute Rockne All American
Baseball- The Natural and Field of Dreams, The Pride of St. Louis is worthy of mention as is Fear Strikes Out
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Hockey - Strange Brew
Baseball - Bad News Bears
Basketball - Teen Wolf
Golf - Caddyshack
Greatest Sports Movie of All Time - Dodgeball
Football - Rudy
Could care less about other sports
field of dreams
bad news bears (orginal)
eight men out
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"How about a little fire Scarecrow ?"
Football - Brian's Song, Rudy, original Longest Yard, and The Replacements (great lazy day movie)
Basketball - The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, Hoosiers
Golf - Caddyshack and Happy Gilmore
Soccer - Victory
Hockey - Slap Shot
Boxing - Rocky I and II
Bobsledding - Cool Runnings
Basketball- Hoosiers
Football- Brians Song, Rudy
Hockey- Slapshot
Boxing- Cindarella Man, Rocky I
Soccer- Victory
Golf- Caddyshack
-- Yogi Berra
It's kind of a stretch, but let's call bowling a sport and I'll go with the Big Lebowski
<< <i>Another thing is that you act like your choice is better than mine, and that you are better than me - two comments Joe Morgan would have made to anyone going against his decisions. In all honesty, as I've said before, it's who you would pick - not who you wouldn't agree with off my team. It's like those threads about people's best pulls - and then you get on there and tell them they are wrong - it's not their best pulls. >>
Then you say this in this thread.....
<< <i>Yes, I definitely forgot Field of Dreams from the list...8 men out was great...but if I had to vote for the best - I would pick field of dreams. I disagree on the golf movie - if you saw Legend of Bagger Vance, you might think otherwise - and Victory was an incredible soccer movie. >>
How could you disagree on a guys pick for his favorite movie?
This thread is PURE opinion. Deciphering a better MLB player is NOT opinion. Some people are saying you are Axtell. I think you may just still be a snot nose, I don't know.
But one thing I do know is that Axtel's staple was contradicting himself, and you certainly are doing a good impersonation here.
<< <i>
This thread is PURE opinion. Deciphering a better MLB player is NOT opinion. Some people are saying you are Axtell. I think you may just still be a snot nose, I don't know.
But one thing I do know is that Axtel's staple was contradicting himself, and you certainly are doing a good impersonation here. >>
I agree and was beginning to wonder if he was Ax also.
-- Yogi Berra
This thread is PURE opinion. Deciphering a better MLB player is NOT opinion. Some people are saying you are Axtell. I think you may just still be a snot nose, I don't know.
But one thing I do know is that Axtel's staple was contradicting himself, and you certainly are doing a good impersonation here. >>
I agree and was beginning to wonder if he was Ax also.
If so, the Yankees avatar was a nice try, though.
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1 - Field of Dreams
2 - Rocky (1st one)
3 - 61*
4 - The Natural
5 - For the Love of the Game (Yeah, I know. It's a chick flick, but just concentrate on the BB stuff)
6 - Charriots of Fire
Haven't come across too many movies that involve Football or Hockey that really moved me. "Miracle" was OK, and comedies such as "Slap Shot" hit a different cord with me. I haven't seen "Invincible" yet, but will soon. I heard that was a great flick.
Brian's Song
I also forgot Remember the Titans - which may pass the Longest Yard. And another sports movie I enjoyed was Kingpin - now that's a funny movie!
Vision Quest (wrestling)
Slap Shot (hockey)
The Sand Lot and Bad News Bears (baseball...I know it's kids, but great movies!)
The Longest Yard (football)
Hoosiers (basketball)
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"You don't like it, get the *uck out!" I still use that line.
<< <i>I like 61*
It's kind of a stretch, but let's call bowling a sport and I'll go with the Big Lebowski >>
Quite possibly the greatest movie of all time.
The Dude abides
Football - Remember the Titans (Or maybe Number One - Charlton Heston leads the Saints dynasty to their 8th straight championship)
There are other sports?
The original Angels in the Outfield (from the 50's) which shows a lot of great stadium detail (also has Leonard Nimoy as an infielder).
Field of Dreams
The Natural
Hoosiers
Math, you are forgiven about the blurb, afterall, you know what the bible says about not forgiving................it's against it!
I too like the Remember the Titans, though I like it better when they show it with the extra scenes. I was watching it with the extra scenes at a party once, so I couldn't catch all of it, but those extra scenes added to the movie IMO.
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The Natural is probably my favorite sports movie.
<< <i>Math4cards, first you say this in another thread......
<< <i>Another thing is that you act like your choice is better than mine, and that you are better than me - two comments Joe Morgan would have made to anyone going against his decisions. In all honesty, as I've said before, it's who you would pick - not who you wouldn't agree with off my team. It's like those threads about people's best pulls - and then you get on there and tell them they are wrong - it's not their best pulls. >>
Then you say this in this thread.....
<< <i>Yes, I definitely forgot Field of Dreams from the list...8 men out was great...but if I had to vote for the best - I would pick field of dreams. I disagree on the golf movie - if you saw Legend of Bagger Vance, you might think otherwise - and Victory was an incredible soccer movie. >>
How could you disagree on a guys pick for his favorite movie?
This thread is PURE opinion. Deciphering a better MLB player is NOT opinion. Some people are saying you are Axtell. I think you may just still be a snot nose, I don't know.
But one thing I do know is that Axtel's staple was contradicting himself, and you certainly are doing a good impersonation here. >>
Interesting.
And as far as the axtell stuff - I have never been on this forum...a few of you have made me wish I didn't find the forum - but the rest of you are awesome. There is probably more insight on this website than in the ESPN work rooms. That skinpinch, even though we haven't seen eye-to-eye on the Morgan/Soriano issue - can come up with stats that no one even knows where to look for them - well except skinpinch.
And I think in regards to axtell - you all must hold yourselves a little too high up if you think people are going to change identities just to talk to you. That's about as conceded a view that I've ever heard. I mean think about it...a member gets booted off - but he wants to talk sports so bad on this forum and none of the other forums - so he fakes his name - comes back just to talk sports again? I love sports as much as the next guy...but not that much.
Obviously you haven't had exchanges with Axtell. LOL
Admittedly, I didn't see the other posts, I just quickly scanned the thread and posted - it's not like this is a topic for deep thought.
Look...the only type of person I truly don't like on this forum are welchers. All others are welcome in my view, so welcome aboard. Don't worry, this doesn't mean I'm gonna e-mail you a Valentines Day message on February 14th. If my Phillies ever meet your Yankeees in the World Series, every Yankees fan here is gonna feel my wrath. I'm still po'd at the Yankees sweeping us in the 1950 World Series and I would like payback!
PS: To quote Harry Truman: If you can't handle the smack talk then stay out of the kitchen.
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Basketball- Hoosiers
Football- Rudy
Boxing- Cinderella Man
Golf- Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
Soccer- Bend 'em Like Beckham
Hockey- Mystery Alaska
NASCAR- Talladega Nights, LOL, just joking! We all know NASCAR isn't a sport!
The movie Hoosiers however gave me a new view of Bobby Knight. In the movie Hoosiers the coach had punched a kid - and yet most of us were pulling for him and his team to win it all...now I look at Bobby Knight with new eyes - still think he's a jerk - but he has been winning games without NBA stars - only Isiah Thomas - now that's coaching. But on the other hand, other players on other teams don't have to worry about getting their butts kicked by their coaches when they mess up - maybe that's truly having the upper hand.