Football movies

[High Lonesome]

not to mention that they never made state, or that the state game wasn't even in the astrodome that year, if im not mistaken it was in austin in the mud.

 

[zincfinger]

Well, some great suggestions here guys, and much appreciated - I just threw North Dallas Forty on the queue. A few points of opinionated contention:

The Longest Yard is the one football movie that I own, and it's a classic flick. The thing about it is, I'm not sure whether it's a good football movie with a cool jail subplot, or a good jail movie with a cool football subplot. I think it's the latter, but I guess you could say the same about a lot of sports movies.

Major League as the best sports movie of all time?! It's a fun flick, but speaking very conservatively, there have to be upwards of half a dozen movies that would go ahead of it without a second thought. Best sports movie of all time: Hoosiers, in a landslide.

Necessary Roughness and The Replacements are at best a passable couple of hours each - the football equivalents of Cocktail. Yeah, they've got some hot girls and some wacky characters (as do 90% of movies). But when you look at a football movie and you see Keanu Reeves as the star QB, or Kathy Ireland as the hot but surprisingly good placekicker, well you need look no farther to ascertain the quality of that film. The Replacements was so bad, Gene Hackman's performance had postage all over it.

Rudy...a nice story, but I just can't get over how annoying the actor is who played Rudy. You just don't put an actor with an annoyingly dorky manner as your main character in a football movie. It's as if someone did "The Adam Taliafaro Story", starring...Urkle!

 

[buckzip]

All the Right Moves has some good football scenes

Yeah, like when Leah Thompson is getting undressed.

Actually, The Longest Yard is my favorite.
I liked Wildcats too. it was pretty entertaining.

 

[NightmaresDad]

the best movie that had football in it...... MASH

 

[osugrad21]

Year of the Bull - finally watched this documentary about a month ago. Better than Go Tigers, IMO.

I finally saw this...

I cannot believe the coaches got away with some of that stuff...I won't tell you I don't curse, but it is never AT a kid...it is more about the situation. These guys were calling the kids MFers, SOBs, etc etc. That was minor though compared to the physical stuff...hell one coach actually fought Taurean Charles.

I just don't understand how you can claim to be "shaping" kids in one breath...and then cursing them and hitting them in the next.

Trust me, I am tough as nails on my kids...but I would never do some of the things these guys were pulling.

That movie was sad on many levels...

 

[ScarletBlood31]

The remake of The Longest Yard was probably the best football movie- entertainment wise.

Best serious football movies- Remember the Titans, Friday Night Lights, WATERBOY!

 

[tedginn05]

Best Football Movie Ever

Just wondering, I've seen

Junction Boys
The Program
Any Given Sunday
Varsity Blues
Friday Night Lights
Radio
Remember The Titans(My favorite)
Rudy(Not my favorite, but still up there)
The Longest Yard(Both, the first one I like more)

And theres a few I can't remember right now.


So what do you guys think is the best.

 

[osugrad21]

All of these

 

[mcclellanatosu]

Id have to say here is my top 3:

1. Remember the Titans
2. Rudy
3. Friday Night Lights

 

[SanAntonioBuck]

Remember the Titans
Friday Night Lights
Rudy
The Longest Yard
Varsity Blues

I like these 5...

 

[Buckeye513]

Remember the Titans.

 

[NFBuck]

I'd have to say Friday Night Lights was my favorite.

 

[Yertle]

Remember the Titans

 

[Bucklion]

If you haven't seen it, watch North Dallas Forty...very, very underrated as a sports movie.

 

[Golferdow01]

Big thread repeat here, but I'd like to add Blue Chips...I always loved that one