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What's the Best Football Movie?

Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:09 AM EST
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By Michael Sautter

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What Is the Best Football Movie Ever Made?

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  • 6345
    Any Given Sunday
    13%
  • 6346
    North Dallas Forty
    4%
  • 6347
    All the Right Moves
    4%
  • 6348
    The Longest Yard
    13%
  • 6349
    Remember the Titans
    26%
  • 6350
    Rudy
    17%
  • 6351
    Brian's Song
    4%
  • 6352
    Friday Night Lights
    4%
  • 6353
    Other, please post in comments
    13%

VoteTotal Votes: 23

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So, what do you think is the best football movie ever made is?

Any Given Sunday (1999)
Directed by Oliver Stone and starring Jamie Foxx as a quarterback for head coach Al Pacino.

North Dallas Forty (1979)
One of the first semi-fictional movies to portray professional football with its warts and all. Stars Nick Nolte and Mac Davis.

All the Right Moves (1983)
About a high school football player (Tom Cruise) trying to make it out of his small, western Pennsylvania steel town. Also stars Craig T. Nelson and Lea Thompson.

The Longest Yard (1974, the original)
Prisoner Burt Reynolds is forced by the warden into leading a team of inmates against the guards in a football game.

Remember the Titans (2000)
The inspirational true story of a newly appointed African-American coach (Denzel Washington) and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.

Rudy (1993)
Rudy (Sean Astin) is determined to play football for Notre Dame.

Brian's Song (1971)
Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo (James Caan) and Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams) and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.

Friday Night Lights (2004)
Billy Bob Thornton is the coach of a Texas high school football team. Based on the book of the same name by Buzz Bissinger.

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Michael Sautter

I voted for North Dallas Forty, it's still entertaining and relevant today. A lot of what happened back then is probably still going on today.

  • 1 vote
Reply#1 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:12 AM EST
firsty

is "heaven can wait" considered a football movie?

i voted for "all the right moves". it's more of my generation than brians song or the longest yard, which would be my other choices. tom cruise made a few really good films back in the day, and i think "moves" is one of the most underrated movies of all time. the characters were interesting and complex, imperfect and real.

  • 1 vote
Reply#2 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:13 AM EST
Brad Leclerc

Unneccessary Roughness.....hands down.

  • 1 vote
Reply#3 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:16 AM EST
Cash

Rudy ...

  • 1 vote
Reply#4 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:22 PM EST
Jason Ford

Brian's Song.

  • 1 vote
Reply#5 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:25 PM EST
Fan Stop Central

What about:
The Program? (Halley Berry, Omar Epps)
The Waterboy? (Sandler, The Fonz)
The Replacements? (Keanu, hot strippers)
Father was a Fullback?
Necessary Roughness? (Scott Bakula, Sinbad, Kathy Ireland)
Varsity Blues? (Amy Smart, Paul Walker)
Air Bud? (Golden "receivers" and Tim Conway)

  • 3 votes
Reply#6 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:57 PM EST
Michael Sautter

I couldn't list every movie ever made about football.

  • 1 vote
#6.1 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:20 PM EST
wightnoise

What was that movie with Anthony Michael Hall as the QB? That was a horrible flick BUT it has one of my most quoted lines of all time...

AMH: I think I broke my dick coach!
Coach: Well rub some dirt on it and get back in there...

  • 1 vote
#6.2 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:17 PM EST
a3dmofo

Kathy Ireland. Oh my, the 8th grader of my past just did a cartwheel.

  • 2 votes
#6.3 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:26 PM EST
Michael Sautter

What was that movie with Anthony Michael Hall as the QB?

Johnny Be Good (1988)? Every college in the country wants Johnny. 'Cause when he's good he's very very good. And when he's bad he's better.

  • 1 vote
#6.4 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:09 PM EST
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Scarlet Pride

How is this list complete without "The Program"

I always thought "Any Given Sunday" was crap but then again whenever I see Jamie Foxx all I see is his Wanda character from "In Living Color".

  • 1 vote
Reply#7 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:58 PM EST
Michael Sautter

I never said this was a complete list. I tried to list the movies that I thought were good. I have never seen The Program, so state your case. What makes it so good?

  • 2 votes
#7.1 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:22 PM EST
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mrapropos

Necessary Roughness (1991). Pretty much had it all, up to an including Kathy Ireland.

  • 1 vote
Reply#8 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:11 PM EST
Michael Sautter

You're joking, right? It's OK as a mindless comedy, but it's not even close to the best football movie of all-time.

  • 1 vote
#8.1 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:25 PM EST
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firsty

dont forget jerry mcguire.

  • 1 vote
Reply#9 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:15 PM EST
Michael Sautter

I intentionally left Jerry Maguire off the list. It is more about a sports agent and his relationships than the sport of football.

  • 1 vote
#9.1 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:24 PM EST
firsty

true. i dont know what came over me. i think it was the thetans.

  • 2 votes
#9.2 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:33 PM EST
firsty

"dazed and confused" is kind of a football movie.

:)

  • 1 vote
#9.3 - Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:24 PM EST
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M. Remmers

Best football film? Lucas. And not just because of my creepy infatuation with Kerri Green who will someday -- with God as my witness -- realize that she loves me, too, and that the restraining order was just some convoluted form of foreplay.

  • 1 vote
Reply#10 - Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:51 AM EST
Scarlet Pride

Meet me on the corner of 5th & Main at 4pm. No weapons but brass knuckles are acceptable. We fight for Kerri's affection.

We've been in love since "Goonies" and I'll be damned if some latecomer "Lucas" fan (which was also a film made great by her presence) will push me out of the picture. ;)

Were you one of those guys who was OK with her liking Charlie Sheen in "Lucas" because he was really a good guy or were you like me and hoping CS somehow croaked or slapped her around in a teenage drunken rage so Lucas could sweep in and show her it was him she should have been with. I think in our advanced age we are supposed to watch that film and think, "Eh Winona Rider wouldn't have been a bad consolation prize". NO WAY! Kerri was just too hot!!!

  • 2 votes
#10.1 - Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:24 AM EST
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