Your Top 5 Football Movies

Hamilton Tiger-Cats
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C'mon Tiger-Cats fans... lets see what your top 5 football movies are.

1 - Rudy. I'm love stories about underdogs (I'm sappy) and Notre Dame is my favorite college team.
2 - Remember the Titans. See above about underdogs.
3 - Brian's Song. Is there a trend here? lol
4 - North Dallas 40. Great movie... Slap Shot and this movie draw a lot of similarities to me in terms of realism. Also... I love the CFL references when asking Elliot if he can "Speak Canadian".
5 - The Longest Yard - Burt Reynolds can carry a moustach like none other!

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I can only pick one.. Rudy.

Not only the greatest football movie ever but makes my top 20 overall best list.

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1 - Friday Night Lights
2 - The Longest Yard (2005)
3 - Remember the Titans
4 - Invincible
5 - The Blind Side

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  1. Victory
  2. Bend It Like Beckham
  3. ...

Oh, wait. Wrong football.

Actually, I don't remember that many good football movies. Not that I've seen them all. So here's my abbreviated list:

  1. The Longest Yard (1974 version - haven't see the new one yet) - I haven't see it in years, and maybe it's better that way
  2. Friday Night Lights - a little cheesy, very predictable, but still pretty good
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I think the last 2 posters have not seen Rudy.

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I should have given honorable mentions to Invincible and The Blind Side. The Longest Yard 2005… maybe for kids.

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The Six Million Dollar Man - One of Our Running Backs is Missing, with Larry Csonka, Dick Butkus and Carl Weathers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LnUa2bV9Y4
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You are correct. But it is on my list of movies to watch at some point. I know my son really enjoyed it.

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Football movies - definitely "Bend it Like Beckham" it was funny and had a real story to it not just one of those boring underdog football movies where they "come from behind" to win the big game.

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Ive seen it just didn’t make my top 5

I don’t think were looking for soccer movies…
N there are a ton of football movies based on real stories, and they don’t always come out on top (Friday Night Lights).

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*** SPOILER ALERT!!! ***

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I have to add a few…

  • The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenom
  • Air Bud: Golden Receiver
  • Little Giants

C’mon… they are GREAT MOVIES for kids.

Now, ones that I left off the list…

  • Any Given Sunday… just didn’t really like it.
  • The Replacements… I actually like this one but it’s pure cheese.
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What about "The Water Boy" with Adam Sandler? great football movie, I think it was based on a true story, not like that Rudy garbage.

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And then there’s “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective”. Perfect for 13-year-old boys. Or not. :expressionless: (Not much actual football in it, if any, but it does revolve around the Miami Dolphins.

Yeah, “The Replacements” wasn’t horrible, although Keanu Reeves was a bit flat in it. But then, I find him like that most movies - “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” being the only exception I can think of.

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There was a film made partly at Ivor Wynne a few years back that starred Tony Danza. It was a true story about some US kicker. Never saw it but I remember reading about the filming at IWS in the Hamilton media.

Edit:

Found it on IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142306/

A list of the filming locations:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142306/locations
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Of the movies named here so far, I've only seen Bend it Like Beckham. The only other football movie I remember watching is a made-for-tv movie from 1991 starring Roseanne Barr called "Backfield in Motion". So I guess by default, I've only got a top 2 list, and those are the only movies on it. Unfortunately, one is about the wrong kind of football, and I don't think the other one should be on anybody's top anything list.

:oops: :oops: :oops:
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#1. Rudy
#2. We are Marshall
#3. The Waterboy
#4. Remember the Titans
#5. The Blindside

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I totally forgot We Are Marshall. A great one for sure!

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Honourable Mention:

  • "Paper Lion". (Wonder if the Lions' management has thought of calling him up again. The way they've played the last few years, he'd probably make the team.)
  • MAS*H

Others that I regretted seeing, which are not on my list:

  • All the Right Moves
  • Jerry MacGuire (I sense a trend here)
  • Semi-Tough (definitely no "The Longest Yard")
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Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenom