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Whats your FAVORITE sports movie EVER??

BigPermBigPerm Senior Member
edited June 2008 in Sports Betting
I am sitting here watching AFI"s top 10 sports movies ever.....Raging Bull was #1 and I would disagree. Anyway the thread is for YOUR FAVORITE sports movies ever.

Heres how it goes....(I'll tally up tommorow night). List your top 3 FAVORITE sports movies #3 #2 and #1.....We'll say 5 points for #1, 3 points for #2 and 1 point for #3......feel free to give as many "honorable mentions" as you like, but list a top 3.

Might be hard to separate comedies from inspirational ones!


#3....Remember the Titans.....LOVED IT

#2....Rocky 4........I know I know

#1....Rocky 2


SUPER shout out to Caddy shack, Jerry McGuire(seriously), Miracle, The Replacements, For Love of the game, Major League, Kingpin, Rocky, The Mighty Ducks(no Im not gay). Slapshot, unneccessary roughness, Field of Dreams,Bull Durham....and Im sure plenty more
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  • chumlychumly Banned
    edited June 2008
    debbie does dallas
  • HowardBealHowardBeal Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    thunder usually on the same page with you, but then you go dissing raging bull and hyping The Replacements!!!!, Miracle!!! come on man.....
    3. The Hustler
    2. Cinderella Man
    1. Raging Bull (i mean, come on)
  • cabster13cabster13 Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    Far and away #! FIeld of Dreams
  • ProduceProduce Banned
    edited June 2008
    is poker a sport? Rounders?
  • BigPermBigPerm Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    3 movies...your 3 favorite....its not like we're talking quantum physics here! LOL

    Yes poker is good, but it will be hard to tally with all these EXTRA posts.....

    Field of dreams #1 cabster...but 2 and 3??
  • BetATLBetATL Super Moderator
    edited June 2008
    Thunder stop lying we know your favorite is "Two for the Money"....

    3.) Remember the Titans

    2.) Hoosiers

    1.) Field of Dreams
  • BigPermBigPerm Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    LOL....that movie sucked!
  • HowardBealHowardBeal Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    what about rudy.....no love for the Irish????
  • HowardBealHowardBeal Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    or BASEketball
  • chumlychumly Banned
    edited June 2008
    white men cant jump
  • 1adam121adam12 Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    forgetting about the Natural. Best sports movie ever. hoosiers second. bull durham is good.
  • mohawkmohawk Banned
    edited June 2008
    1. The Last Round: Chuvalo vs. Ali
    2. The Fortune Cookie
    3. Rocky
  • Johnny17Johnny17 Member
    edited June 2008
    1. Caddyshack
    2. Slap Shot
    3. Longest Yard
  • brmapesbrmapes Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    For those that picked Field of Dreams, it was the #8 Fantasy movie of all time

    My top 3 are Rudy, Rocky 4 and The Mighty Ducks...but I'm weird
  • coachesplayscoachesplays Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    Rudy, Jerry MaGuire, Happy Gilmore
  • DeanoDeano Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    Hoosiers
  • ricksm3ricksm3 Junior Member
    edited June 2008
    i`m a dodger fan but
    PRIDE OF THE YANKEES(lou gerhig story)
  • tro19tro19 Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    1 Seabicuit
    2 The Rookie
    3 Rocky, Invincible
  • vegasconnxnvegasconnxn Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    3) major league
    2) rudy
    1) remember the titans

    honorable mention- jerry maguire
  • homerplayerhomerplayer Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    HowardBeal wrote:
    thunder usually on the same page with you, but then you go dissing raging bull and hyping The Replacements!!!!, Miracle!!! come on man.....
    3. The Hustler
    2. Cinderella Man
    1. Raging Bull (i mean, come on)

    wow, i am in agreement with Howard for the second time in two weeks....rack 'em sausage

    3. The Longest Yard (the original)

    2. North Dallas Forty (loved it)

    1. Raging Bull (anyone not putting it there must not have seen it.)

    What happened to Robert Dienero? Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver, a young Vito Corleone, Capone in the Untouchables, even Sleepers, and of course Jake Lamotta....holy shit that guy was a legend and know wears fake boobs in movies with Jerry Stiller's kid

    anyway just De Niro's power in that movie at a time when Scorsese was making films with heart and the rawness, highlighted by brutal scenes ending with "you never put me down Ray!!!" i don't know De Niro or Keanu Reaves....tough one

    but there is a stark difference between movies of today and those of yesterday...every sports movie today is based on the same formula for all hollywood bullshit, the myth of the happy ending. I know Titans based on true story. but i think my top 3 there all held the common thread of highlighting human struggle against abusive prison gaurds, pain, drugs and the lure of money, and personal demons. sometimes merely metaphors, sometimes honest depictions, just solid movies not propped up by swooning pieces of symphony music and teary-eyed high fives after our hero, or heroes, triumph. Raging Bull is not an original tale, Jake Lamotta embodied the literal concept of the tragic figure. a great story with a great actor and a great director, and Joe Pesci got his rib broken....what more could one ask?

    just my two cents, worthless as that is
  • Duke30Duke30 Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    1 Hoosiers
    2 Raging Bull
    3 Rocky
  • waddywaddy Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    How about a couple that never get mentioned in these lists

    1)Long Gone--baseball movie with William Petereson(CSI) and Virginia Madsen as Dixie Lee Boxx, you even have Teller in a speaking role.

    2)Vision Quest--some of it was kinda corny, but the sport part with Matthew Modine as the big under dog wrestler trying to beat the king wrestler in the area, Chute, has a great realistic feel to it.


    As a lifelong Celtic fan can I mention maybe the worst ever, Celtic Pride!!!!
  • novacpenovacpe Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    1. slapstick
    2. the natural
    3. tin cup
  • chumlychumly Banned
    edited June 2008
    celtic pride
  • viperviper Banned
    edited June 2008
    chumly wrote:
    debbie does dallas


    LoL....good one, Chumster!
  • rmcfeermcfee Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    3 Cinderela man
    2Raging Bull
    1Rudy
  • georgesteelegeorgesteele Banned
    edited June 2008
    3) Rocky IV
    2) Rounders
    1) Caddyshack
  • SunBelterSunBelter Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    There has been so many great ones, its hard to narrow it down to a few. Some of my favorites:

    Hoosiers
    Rudy
    League of Their Own
    Pride of the Yankees
    Miracle on Ice
    Field of Dreams
    The Rookie
  • QtronQtron Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    the hustler

    raging bull

    the color if money
  • Brooklyn32Brooklyn32 Senior Member
    edited June 2008
    1. Hoosiers
    2. The Natural
    3. Eight Men Out
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