What do you consider to be the best football movie?

[BadJerry20]

Everybody loves it but I thought it was one of the most contrived, hokey, unrealistic sports movies I've ever seen.

I hated it.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Everybody loves it but I thought it was one of the most contrived, hokey, unrealistic sports movies I've ever seen.

The only one worse is The Blind Side.

 

[chavisut]

In Friday Night Lights the team they are portraying didn't even make it to the state championship right? But it is still my favorite.

Lost in the semi finals.

 

[chavisut]

Everybody loves it but I thought it was one of the most contrived, hokey, unrealistic sports movies I've ever seen.

Disney

 

[MG1968]

All The Right Moves

because Lea Thompson gets nekkid

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Lost in the semi finals.

It was the State finals.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

It was the State finals.

In real life it was the semi-finals I thought.

 

[KnoxRealtorVOL]

The only one worse is The Blind Side.

I don't really consider The Blind Side a football movie. You don't even know the names of any of the players on the team. It's more of a drama than a sports movie IMO.

 

[milohimself]

I'll go with Friday Night Lights on this one. Yet another case where the book is superior to the movie, but I feel like the film did a decent job capturing the overall spirit and message. Author went to spend a year following Permian and how high school football intertwines with rural America, and instead came out with a tale of small town tragedy.

 

[Vegas_Ferguson]

As a romantic tale of the working class underdog, Rudy is tops.

That aside, North Dallas Forty and The Longest Yard (Burt Reynolds as Paul Crewe) come closest to portraying the game's on-field and off-field violence.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

I don't really consider The Blind Side a football movie. You don't even know the names of any of the players on the team. It's more of a drama than a sports movie IMO.

Whatever it is, it sucks.

 

[SlyStone]

Remember the Titans
Coach Carter

 

[Brave Volunteer]

All The Right Moves

because Lea Thompson gets nekkid

"62 stack monster!! 62 stack monster!!"

 

[GAVol]

All The Right Moves

because Lea Thompson gets nekkid

Indeed

 

[vader]

All The Right Moves

because Lea Thompson gets nekkid

yessir

 

[Tux]

Gus The Talking Mule

 

[GBO18]

In real life it was the semi-finals I thought.

It was.

 

[chavisut]

It was the State finals.

IRL it was the semis.

I read the book a long time ago.

 

[chavisut]

I'll go with Friday Night Lights on this one. Yet another case where the book is superior to the movie, but I feel like the film did a decent job capturing the overall spirit and message. Author went to spend a year following Permian and how high school football intertwines with rural America, and instead came out with a tale of small town tragedy.

Agree, the book is awesome. Read it a couple years before the movie came out. Would like to read it again sometime.

 

[Vegas_Ferguson]

Gus The Talking Mule

Saw that in the theater when I was a kid. The Mule kicked field goals from like 90 yards away.

 

[govols/cc]

Johnny Be Good

 

[RDU VOL#14]

IRL it was the semis.

I read the book a long time ago.

Oh my bad. I haven't read it, but should.

 

[Blake25p]

If you consider The 5th Quarter as a football movie then that would be my choice.

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

It was more of a made for TV movie, but I thought Junction Boys was good.
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[billford]

Any given Sunday
Remember the titans
Rudy
The longest yard