Best sports Movie.

SanctionII · March 20, 2019 5:59AM

Your thoughts.

For me, Brian's Song.

1951WheatiesPremium · March 20, 2019 6:16AM

There are SO many great sports movies that it’s hard to pick. I would have to answer the ‘Best’ question with two films that are deadlocked in first place: Rocky and Hoosiers. Each explores the underdog story while also addressing redemption and the different ways you can ‘win’ in sports regardless of the outcome of the actual event.

HOWEVER, my personal favorite would be Side Out. Mind you, this a very cheesy, very bad, very eighties movie. How 80s, you ask? There’s 80s music, tons of neon colors, high hair, it stars Peter Horton and C. Thomas Howell and Bernie from Weekend at Bernie’s and features a very young, very beautiful, very swimsuit clad Courtney Thorne-Smith. It doesn’t get more 80s! It’s the standard tale of a law school kid from Minnesota who scores a summer internship at a California law firm only to abandon it for a shot at glory on the pro volleyball circuit. Many real life AVP players in the film, with Randy Stoklos in a semi lead role.

You know, that old story...

Coinstartled · March 20, 2019 8:13AM

Rocky
Bad news Bears
Stir Crazy

LarkinCollector · March 20, 2019 8:33AM

Waterboy
Air Bud: Spikes Back
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

craig44 · March 20, 2019 8:45AM

I enjoyed the Rocky series

lawnmowerman · March 20, 2019 8:46AM

The Field of Dreams. The end still makes my eyes tear up

mvs7 · March 20, 2019 8:58AM

I'd probably say Rocky as well. If I had to throw out something different, most of my other favorites are baseball movies: The Natural, Eight Men Out, and the various Costner baseball movies (Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, For the Love of the Game).

lawnmowerman · March 20, 2019 9:00AM

@mvs7 said:
The Natural

Yes! I forgot about that one

mvs7 · March 20, 2019 9:02AM

@lawnmowerman said:

@mvs7 said:
The Natural

Yes! I forgot about that one

The Natural is easily my favorite baseball movie. For the Love of the Game should really only be mentioned if there was a way to edit out the relationships part of the movie and just show the baseball parts.

keets · March 20, 2019 9:30AM

Slapshot.

BLUEJAYWAY · March 21, 2019 10:40AM

Hoosiers,Field of Dreams.

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mapleman · March 21, 2019 2:20PM

Chariots of Fire

thisistheshow · March 21, 2019 3:08PM

Not the best, but when I was younger I really liked All the Right Moveshttps://youtu.be/6zDtgcrwYl0

Coinstartled · March 21, 2019 3:09PM

@MLBdays said:
I liked The Natural .... better than Field. ~maybe I'm a sucker. Rocky though is #1 ... that was the movie.

Rocky was the movie. Million dollar budget no less.

perkdog · March 21, 2019 3:18PM

I remember my father watching North Dallas Forty and my mother yelling to not let me watch it, decades later I watched it and thought it was “OK”

SanctionII · March 21, 2019 4:19PM

As for the Rocky franchise of movies, the first and second ones were great.

I recently watched Creed 2 and find that it is one of my favorites. I really liked that Creed 2 spent a substantial amount of time telling the story of how the events of Rocky IV (death of Apollo at the hands of Ivan Drago, Rocky beating Drago in Moscow) turned out having wide ranging impacts on multiple characters in this franchise.

Justacommeman · March 21, 2019 5:10PM

Sandlot

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PatsGuy5000 · March 22, 2019 2:36AM

Hoosiers, Brian’s Song, and Remember the Titans are mine

countdouglas · March 22, 2019 4:54AM

You might want to edit that...just sayin'...

countdouglas · March 22, 2019 4:56AM

I know... I know..."Damn autocorrect!"...

Justacommeman · March 22, 2019 7:20AM

@PatsGuy5000 said:
Hoosiers, Brian’s Dong, and Remember the Titans are mine

That second movie is probably on a late night premium cable channel if anyone is interested

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PatsGuy5000 · March 22, 2019 11:39AM

@Justacommeman said:

@PatsGuy5000 said:
Hoosiers, Brian’s Dong, and Remember the Titans are mine

That second movie is probably on a late night premium cable channel if anyone is interested

Couldn’t have planned that if I thought of it

steel75 · March 22, 2019 2:45PM

Raging Bull

45isodd · March 22, 2019 4:28PM

Caddyshack

stevek · March 22, 2019 4:43PM

I'm not saying it's my favorite, but i don't think "Paper Lion" was mentioned.

Interesting movie because the plot is based on a true story, and also because a number of the football players who were involved in the true story, also played themselves in the movie.

One was Alex Karras who went on to have a fairly decent career in movies and television.

Coinstartled · March 22, 2019 6:43PM

Not a top ten movie but worth watching again was Fast Break with Gabe Kaplan and Bernard King.

illini420 · March 22, 2019 6:50PM

Rudy... Rudy... Rudy... Rudy...

ahopkins · March 23, 2019 5:20AM

Bad News Bears
Field of Dreams
Hoosiers

electrode · March 29, 2019 3:50PM

Slap Shot with Paul Newman

coinkat · March 30, 2019 2:39PM

Follow The Sun

JoeBanzai · April 1, 2019 4:38PM

Baseball-Bull Durham
Football-Brian's Song
Basketball-Hoosiers
Hockey-Slapshot
Boxing-Rocky

JRR300 · April 1, 2019 6:38PM

@Justacommeman said:
Sandlot

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It's about time someone named that movie. wasn't waiting much longer to chime in.
for a football movie, I am torn between Brian's Song and Remember the Titans.

breakdown · April 1, 2019 7:08PM

Actually liked Greatest game every played. I know Shia Lebeouf is tough to take but is pretty good in this, and Stephen Dillane as Harry Vardon is tremendous. The story of Francis Ouimet is truly stranger than fiction.

Others: Hoosiers. Bull Durham. Hoop Dreams (do documentaries count?).

Darin · April 1, 2019 7:48PM

If the ghostbusters would have come in at the end of field of dreams to wipe out the ghosts and send them
back to where they belong it would have been the perfect movie.
As it stands the movie is a little lacking, with poltergeists in wool uniforms haunting the whole damn Iowa countryside.

ZTarg · April 3, 2019 2:59AM

The fish that saved Pittsburgh

electrode · April 3, 2019 5:51AM

If there are any french canadians who read this the hockey movie "Les Boys" is a must see.

pocketpiececommems · April 3, 2019 7:34PM

Tom Cruise thinking with his bat in A Few Good Men

1951WheatiesPremium · April 4, 2019 4:16AM

@pocketpiececommems said:
Tom Cruise thinking with his bat in A Few Good Men

Ha!!!

Kevin Bacon plays hoops, Demi Moore confronts Lt Caffey (Cruise) on the baseball diamond early in the film, too.

Don’t know if it’s sports but it sure is a great flic!

electrode · April 5, 2019 8:36AM

I recall watching as a child the black and white movie about the life of Jim Thorpe staring Burt Lancaster as Jim Thorpe,Thorpe mastered many sports won Olympic medals but they were taken away from him because he played pro ball which was a no no at the time because olympians had to be strictly amateurs this rule was finally changed when pro hockey players were allowed to compete in the olympics.

3stars · April 9, 2019 9:39AM

No love for Major League?

Best sports Movie.

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