Your top 10 sports movies?

[Freebird]

1. The Natural
2. Rocky I–the original
3. Field of Dreams
4. Miracle
5. Rocky 2
6. Million Dollar Baby
7. For Love of the Game
8. Remember the Titans
9. Friday Night Lights
10. Hoosiers

[Pdono]

The Natural
Field of Dreams
For the Love of the Game
Original - Longest Yard - Burt Reynolds version.
Breaking Away
Tin Cup
Hoosiers
Caddy Shack
Water Boy
61

[BitterSyd]

No way in hell can I just go ten.

1. Breaking Away
2. Hoop Dreams
3. Murderball
4. The Wrestler
5. Hoosiers
6. Slap Shot
7. Rocky
8. Cinderella Man
9. Pride of the Yankees
10. Bend It Like Beckham
11. The Longest Yard ('74)
12. The Karate Kid
13. Eight Men Out
14. A League of Their Own
15. Without Limits
16. Moneyball
17. Chariots of Fire
18. Caddyshack
19. Major League
20. The Bad News Bears ('76)

Hon. Men. - Goon
Hon. Men. - Miracle

[BitterSyd]

Top ten complete shit sports movies (I’ll get flack for this):

1. Semi-Pro
2. Days of Thunder
3. Field of Dreams
4. BASEketball
5. Ladybugs
6. The Water Boy
7. Mr. Baseball
8. Remember the Titans
9. The Replacements
10. Stroker Ace

Dishon. Men. - The Legend of Bagger Vance
Dishon. Men. - Blades of Glory

** - Didn’t add sequels or remakes because everyone knows they are worthless.

[Freebird]

Yeah, I guess Caddyshack is technically a sports movie. Forgot about that one.

[farmerted]

This is the list, and it is indisputable

Bull Durham
Rocky
Seabiscuit
Ford v Ferrari
The Cutting Edge
Cinderella Man
The Natural
Tin Cup
VisionQuest
Hoosiers

[JadedLionsFan]

@Freebird

1. The Natural - Yes but not #1
2. Rocky I–the original - Yes - Easily the best Rocky Movie - Maybe the best sports movie ever
3. Field of Dreams - Yes Top 10
4. Miracle - Yes without a doubt…Maybe the best sports movie ever
5. Rocky 2 - meh…good movie
6. Million Dollar Baby - F’ing Great Movie that I F’ing hated the ending on & never want to see again
7. For Love of the Game - This one is overlooked and probably unseen by many but is a GREAT movie
8. Remember the Titans - This one…is probably my pick for greatest sports movie ever
9. Eight Men Out - Eh…great real life story, not so sure the movie was all that great. It was good
10. Friday Night Lights…another one where the story, the real story i.e. THE BOOK was tremendous…the movie was good

These 3 are pure comedy set on sports and I loved them…but I struggle to call them “Sports Movies”
Caddyshack
Waterboy
Bad News Bears - Original

So I would have to go

1. Hoosiers ( really a 5 way tie for 1st because these 5 are truly in a class by themselves to me)

2. Miracle

3. Remember The Titans

4. Rocky

5. Brian’s Song - Original (Even if it is about the Bears I cry every time when Billy Dee gives his acceptance speech…every…single…time…I just teared up a little typing this)

6. Longest Yard - The Original of course even though the Adam Sandler version was funny

7. For The Love of the Game

8. Field of Dreams

9. The Natural

10. McFarland, USA - A real sleeper that I never expected to draw me in as much as it did. I mean X-Country…who knew I could love a movie about X-Country

Honorable Mention…Rudy even though I can’t stand ND

Movies based on real stories tend to get bonus points from me so that affects my rankings

[Freebird]

Cutting Edge, Vision Quest, and Cinderella Man all worthy of consideration. Hoosiers was in my original top 10 draft. It could knock Eight Men Out out of the top 10.

[JadedLionsFan]

@farmerted

This is the list, and it is indisputable

Bull Durham
Rocky
Seabiscuit
Ford v Ferrari
The Cutting Edge
Cinderella Man
The Natural
Tin Cup
VisionQuest
Hoosiers

I forgot Bull Durham…I guess I need a “Top 11”

[farmerted]

Haha…you know I was kidding on The Cutting Edge…just seeing if anybody actually paid attention.

But I kind of agree. In some weird way, Cutting Edge is a good lesson on sports.

My sister loved that movie when we were kids. Played it over and over and over.

[Freebird]

The Pamchenko!

[Freebird]

Bull Durham & Major League struck me as somewhat similar entertaining movies, but neither top 10 worthy.

[Freebird]

@JadedLionsFan

McFarland, USA - A real sleeper that I never expected to draw me in as much as it did. I mean X-Country…who knew I could love a movie about X-Country

That was an excellent movie. Same true story genre as Friday Night Lights.

[farmerted]

I had a hard time deciding what is considered a “sports” movie. Like is Jerry Maguire a sports movie (I said no). But fun list.

[farmerted]

I really liked Friday Night Lights the TV Series. For a network TV series it was highly bingeable. It didn’t hurt that Minka Kelly and Adrianne Palicki were in it either. I mean you have to take it for what it is (a teen/family drama) but it was decent. Had some football in it.

[Freebird]

Jerry Maguire is almost a chick flick.

[JadedLionsFan]

@farmerted

I really liked Friday Night Lights the TV Series. For a network TV series it was highly bingeable. It didn’t hurt that Minka Kelly and Adrianne Palicki were in it either. I mean you have to take it for what it is (a teen/family drama) but it was decent. Had some football in it.

Seriously…the book was outstanding. I read it long before the movie or TV show came out and I am soooooo glad I did. Like many book/movie pairs the movies are better if you know the details provided in the book that they never could have time to go into. And if you see the movie first it is harder to make yourself read the book later

[farmerted]

True. Its funny because almost every girl I know hates that damn movie. They find it insulting how Jerry treats Renee Zellweger. Its all about Jerry in that movie.

[farmerted]

Interesting. I’ve never read the book. I thought the TV series was better than the movie. Great cast.

[Phizzle]

Remember the Titans
The Sandlot
Varsity Blues
The Air Up There
Little Giants
The Waterboy
The Program
A League of Their Own
Touchback
The Grid Iron Gang
Little Big League
Happy Gilmore
Rookie of the Year
The Replacements