What are Your Top 10 Sports Movies?

by Chris Thorman on Jun 12, 2007 4:38 PM CDT in 2007 Kansas City Chiefs Season

Inspired by The Big Lead, I decided to come up with my Top 10 Sports Movies of All Time. I'm doing this fairly quickly so forgive me if I leave out an obvious one.

1. Kingpin ("Oh, that's cool. I mean, what's the worst that can happen? [Roy agrees by gesturing with his hook and then looks at it awkwardly]")

2. Caddyshack (Probably about where you have it on your list too)

3. The Sandlot (Captures being a kid in the summer perfectly)

4. Major League (Taught me at a young age that Corbin Bernsen was a pussy)

5. The Program (I know its a bad movie, okay?)

6. Rocky (Classic)

7. White Men Can't Jump ("I'll tell you what. Why don't we take all these bricks and build a shelter for the homeless, so maybe your mother will have a place to stay.")

8. Tin Cup (Won me over during freshman year when the school replayed this movie about a hundred times on the student channel)

9. The Bad News Bears (Saw this recently and it got funnier)

10. Necessary Roughness (Weren't we just talking about this movie?)

I know some of you are already saying, "But he left off that movie!" Thats where you come in. Give me your top 10 in the comment section.

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I will defend

Kingpin to the death. Bring it.

by Chris Thorman on Jun 12, 2007 4:59 PM CDT reply actions

So, I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

I haven't seen enough of the "classics" that always make these lists but here are my personal favorites of the ones I have seen, in some type of order, I guess.

Hoosiers (perfected the sports movie formula)
Caddyshack (perfected the sports comedy movie formula)
Friday Night Lights (seems like I like this movie more than others but it reminded me of my own, much, much less glorious, high school football days)
White Men Can't Jump
Happy Gilmore
Slapshot
The Sandlot
Rocky (I'll just sort of roll all of them into one so I don't have to try to pick a favorite)
Major League
Kingpin

Honorable mentions:
Documentaries:
Hoop Dreams, When We Were Kings

Really dumb movies I remember from childhood or high school and still sort of enjoy on some level: BASEketball, Teen Wolf

Animated:
Triplets of Belleville

by Pauli on Jun 12, 2007 5:37 PM CDT reply actions

Teen Wolf

was fantastic. So was Hoop Dreams.

BASEketball? Really??

by Chris Thorman on Jun 12, 2007 5:43 PM CDT up reply actions

Ummm

I should probably take that back since I don't think I've ever seen it sober...

by Pauli on Jun 12, 2007 7:59 PM CDT up reply actions

i never have seen kingpin

or caddyshack or rocky...

i know, i know, im a horrible person. so anyways, taking those 3 out of it here are my top 10...

rudy (makes me cry every single time)
remember the titans
coach carter
major league
happy gilmore
hoosiers
cinderella man
field of dreams
seabiscuit
friday night lights

i liked friday night lights but i read the book first and there is ABSOLUTELY NO COMPARISON! the book is amazing, as is seabiscuit, which held them both down...

by rockchalk on Jun 12, 2007 6:02 PM CDT reply actions

I never saw

Remember the Titans. At least not all the way through.

by Chris Thorman on Jun 12, 2007 6:23 PM CDT reply actions

My list

Grand Prize- Rocky I-IV

Major League
Rudy
Any Given Sunday
Varsity Blues
61
Eight Men Out
Hoosiers
Blue Chips
Remember the Titans
Cinderella Man

by stevedebergHOF on Jun 13, 2007 1:07 AM CDT reply actions

Does The Last Boyscout count?

by stevedebergHOF on Jun 13, 2007 1:08 AM CDT reply actions

Yeah it counts

And I forgot about Blue Chips too!

Damn. Neon Beadeau is a hall of famer for sure.

by Chris Thorman on Jun 13, 2007 7:02 AM CDT reply actions

In no particular order

Brian's Song (the original)
Pride of the Yankees
Fear Strikes Out
Bang the Drum Slowly
The Natural
Bull Durham
Chariots of Fire
Hoop Dreams
Major League
Follow the Sun

by sm7600 on Jun 13, 2007 8:50 AM CDT reply actions

Raging Bull and Hoop Dreams would probably be the top two on my list along with Rocky. And Kingpin would be on my list. I just can't believe nobody has mentioned Raging Bull. Should have won Best Picture.

- Adam

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by arrowheadaddict on Jun 13, 2007 11:31 AM CDT reply actions