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I just realized the other day that the kicker in the replacements is Otto Hightower in the new Game of Thrones show and now I'm struggling to take him seriously.

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I saw that listed in IMDB and was like WHAT and then went back and it is him. Borderline unrecognizable.

AGBU94 said:

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Wildcats would be in my top five, maybe even number one.

It's the sport of kings, better than diamond rings...

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THANK YOU!

"Be on the 5 in field minutes."

Levander Williams was played by Bubba Gump. I've probably seen that movies 50 times and didn't notice until the last watch a few months ago.

ATM9000 said:

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No love for Any Given Sunday?

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Of course not, because it's terrible.

ElephantRider said:

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No love for Draft Day, you pancake-eating mother ****ers ?

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Was that the crappy one with Kevin Costner trading draft picks?

I suppose if Draft Day is a football film so is Jerry Maguire. At least JM actually had some football played.

The Debt said:

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ElephantRider said:

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No love for Draft Day, you pancake-eating mother ****ers ?

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Was that the crappy one with Kevin Costner trading draft picks?

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Yes, it sucks. I just enjoy the "pancake-eating mother ****er" line

The Debt said:

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I suppose if Draft Day is a football film so is Jerry Maguire. At least JM actually had some football played.

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Then so is Fast Times at Ridgemont High and thats #1 in my book.

And School Ties.



Not to mention MASH, Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Point Break and Wedding Crashers.

Zombie Jon Snow said:

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The Debt said:

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I suppose if Draft Day is a football film so is Jerry Maguire. At least JM actually had some football played.

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Then so is Fast Times at Ridgemont High and thats #1 in my book.

And School Ties.



Not to mention MASH, Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Point Break and Wedding Crashers.

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And Forrest Gump

Wildcats is definitely one of those movies that could not be made today.

Bruce Almighty said:

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Wildcats is definitely one of those movies that could not be made today.

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You mean the 1000% gratuitous nude scene?

"Hey coach, we're all suited up and ready to play!"

So pissed the Moochie baseball and football movies/shows haven't released to Disney+

Ferg said:

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"Trouble Along the Way" was better

This thread has me thinking....

Why are there so few great football movies, but there are a ton of great baseball movies? Football is heads and shoulders more popular than baseball in the US.

One theory: It's easy to fake an actor being good at baseball. It's completely believable that Kevin Costner, Robert Redford, or Gina Davis could be good at baseball. It is damn hard to fake an actor being good at football. When you see a supposedly NFL quality football team in a movie, it looks like A&M could crush them. So you have to really suspend disbelief.

I think a sport that suffers this problem even more is soccer. Can you imagine a movie about Messi? Nobody else can do what he does/did. They would have to show real footage and then somehow stick the actors head on top of Messi's. It would look ridiculous. Especially if they show early footage that is all blurry. I cannot think of a single decent soccer movie off the top of my head.

ElephantRider said:

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No love for Draft Day, you pancake-eating mother ****ers ?

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Great movie

aTmAg said:

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This thread has me thinking....

Why are there so few great football movies, but there are a ton of great baseball movies? Football is heads and shoulders more popular than baseball in the US.

One theory: It's easy to fake an actor being good at baseball. It's completely believable that Kevin Costner, Robert Redford, or Gina Davis could be good at baseball. It is damn hard to fake an actor being good at football. When you see a supposedly NFL quality football team in a movie, it looks like A&M could crush them. So you have to really suspend disbelief.

I think a sport that suffers this problem even more is soccer. Can you imagine a movie about Messi? Nobody else can do what he does/did. They would have to show real footage and then somehow stick the actors head on top of Messi's. It would look ridiculous. Especially if they show early footage that is all blurry. I cannot think of a single decent soccer movie off the top of my head.

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For the same reason there are more great boxing movies than any other sport, the two make it easy to create heroes and villains. Football is the ultimate team game played by faceless players.

Redford had a scholarship to play baseball at Colorado, but partied it away.

Bruce Almighty said:

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aTmAg said:

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This thread has me thinking....

Why are there so few great football movies, but there are a ton of great baseball movies? Football is heads and shoulders more popular than baseball in the US.

One theory: It's easy to fake an actor being good at baseball. It's completely believable that Kevin Costner, Robert Redford, or Gina Davis could be good at baseball. It is damn hard to fake an actor being good at football. When you see a supposedly NFL quality football team in a movie, it looks like A&M could crush them. So you have to really suspend disbelief.

I think a sport that suffers this problem even more is soccer. Can you imagine a movie about Messi? Nobody else can do what he does/did. They would have to show real footage and then somehow stick the actors head on top of Messi's. It would look ridiculous. Especially if they show early footage that is all blurry. I cannot think of a single decent soccer movie off the top of my head.

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For the same reason there are more great boxing movies than any other sport, the two make it easy to create heroes and villains. Football is the ultimate team game played by faceless players.

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I don't know. If there are more boxing movies than football movies, its pretty much all because of the Rocky franchise. Aren't there eight of those, including the Creed movies?

Emphasis on great, not overall number.

Only one mention of Varsity Blues?

Fire that f'n pigskin!

Bruce Almighty said:

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aTmAg said:

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This thread has me thinking....

Why are there so few great football movies, but there are a ton of great baseball movies? Football is heads and shoulders more popular than baseball in the US.

One theory: It's easy to fake an actor being good at baseball. It's completely believable that Kevin Costner, Robert Redford, or Gina Davis could be good at baseball. It is damn hard to fake an actor being good at football. When you see a supposedly NFL quality football team in a movie, it looks like A&M could crush them. So you have to really suspend disbelief.

I think a sport that suffers this problem even more is soccer. Can you imagine a movie about Messi? Nobody else can do what he does/did. They would have to show real footage and then somehow stick the actors head on top of Messi's. It would look ridiculous. Especially if they show early footage that is all blurry. I cannot think of a single decent soccer movie off the top of my head.

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For the same reason there are more great boxing movies than any other sport, the two make it easy to create heroes and villains. Football is the ultimate team game played by faceless players.

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Besides Rocky 1, what other great boxing movie is there?

The opening speech in Johnny B Good is better than any of these movies.

"The lord wants you to put your foot on their balls and believe in it. Because that's what wins football games. Not jumping offsides like a bunch of wimps and ******s."

"every girl you ever had a hard on for is gonna be out there today but you will not be going to no sock-hop tonight boys, you will not get no honey on your stinger if you don't go out there and bust your ass."

aTmAg said:

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This thread has me thinking....

Why are there so few great football movies, but there are a ton of great baseball movies? Football is heads and shoulders more popular than baseball in the US.

One theory: It's easy to fake an actor being good at baseball. It's completely believable that Kevin Costner, Robert Redford, or Gina Davis could be good at baseball. It is damn hard to fake an actor being good at football. When you see a supposedly NFL quality football team in a movie, it looks like A&M could crush them. So you have to really suspend disbelief.

I think a sport that suffers this problem even more is soccer. Can you imagine a movie about Messi? Nobody else can do what he does/did. They would have to show real footage and then somehow stick the actors head on top of Messi's. It would look ridiculous. Especially if they show early footage that is all blurry. I cannot think of a single decent soccer movie off the top of my head.

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A movie about soccer would be worse than actually watching soccer.

Cinderella Man
Raging Bull
The Fighter
to name a few not part of the Rocky franchise

No particular order:

The Program
Necessary Roughness
The Waterboy
American Underdog
Little Giants

jkag89 said:

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Cinderella Man
Raging Bull
The Fighter
to name a few not part of the Rocky franchise

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I just looked it up, and boxing movies definitely are more critically acclaimed. I guess haven't seen a whole lot of them. It seems the most award winning sports movie of all time is Million Dollar Baby followed by Chariots of fire (which I think is boring as crap).

The Blind Side only has one academy award win and 1 nomination. And it is the top football movie. Baseball looks to be #2.

TXAG 05 said:

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aTmAg said:

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This thread has me thinking....

Why are there so few great football movies, but there are a ton of great baseball movies? Football is heads and shoulders more popular than baseball in the US.

One theory: It's easy to fake an actor being good at baseball. It's completely believable that Kevin Costner, Robert Redford, or Gina Davis could be good at baseball. It is damn hard to fake an actor being good at football. When you see a supposedly NFL quality football team in a movie, it looks like A&M could crush them. So you have to really suspend disbelief.

I think a sport that suffers this problem even more is soccer. Can you imagine a movie about Messi? Nobody else can do what he does/did. They would have to show real footage and then somehow stick the actors head on top of Messi's. It would look ridiculous. Especially if they show early footage that is all blurry. I cannot think of a single decent soccer movie off the top of my head.

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A movie about soccer would be worse than actually watching soccer.

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I was the same way about soccer until my kids played and I was asked to coach one of them. There's a lot more to it then what meets the eye.

But I cannot imagine a soccer movie ever being good. Maybe a true story about some player in a war torn area who somehow plays for his national team or something. But the soccer itself would be a side note, not the main story.

If you knew much about soccer, you would know that every time they show actors on a soccer team, they are laughably bad when they play. And the show pretends they are amazing. It's hilarious.

To do a biopic about somebody like Messi would probably require them to generate all the soccer scenes with CGI. That would be atrocious.

Ken Scarborough said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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Wildcats is definitely one of those movies that could not be made today.

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You mean the 1000% gratuitous nude scene?

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Because Nipsey Russell is dead.

jkag89 said:

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Cinderella Man
Raging Bull
The Fighter
to name a few not part of the Rocky franchise

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There are many many more boxing movies.

The Hurricane
Million Dollar Baby
Jungleland
The Boxer
Resurrecting the Champ

Glad I saw them finally mentioned but yes within the last year or two, 12 Mighty Orphans was SO good for anyone who loves Texas High School football and then American Underdog about Kurt Warner's story was so good not just as football movie but a life movie and I took my teenage son and for me it was awesome to remember all the football stuff I knew about Kurt Warner and learn some new things and for my son, he learned all the stuff for the first time and we both left feeling like it was one of the best "feel good" movies we'd both seen in a long time.

If you don't have Brian's Song #1 I have to assume you've either never seen it or you're a moron.

Oh I know, I just posted a few that quickly came to mind that are hightly regarded.

Know Your Enemy said:

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If you don't have Brian's Song #1 I have to assume you've either never seen it or you're a moron.

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It's really dated. Like, super dated.

It's hard to watch.