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FurdTurgason

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What, in your opinion, was the best movie ever for each sport? I'll start...

Football: We Are Marshall

Basketball: Hoosiers

Baseball: Field of Dreams

Other: Sea Biscuit
 
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FurdTerguson said:
What, in your opinion, was the best movie ever for each sport? I'll start...

Football: We Are Marshall

Basketball: Hoosiers

Baseball: Field of Dreams

Other: Sea Biscuit
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Rocky
Lou gherig baseball pride of the yankees
Brian's song football
Hoosier basketball
Greatest game ever played golf
 
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UK90

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Basketball: Hoosiers
Football: The Longest Yard (meaning the original 1970s version, NOT the crappy Adam Sandler remake)
Baseball: Bull Durham
Hockey: Slap Shot
Golf: Tin Cup
Boxing: Raging Bull
Wrestling: Vision Quest
Cycling: Breaking Away
Horse Racing: Seabiscuit
 
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baseball Sandlot
Football Brians song
basketball: Coach carter
 
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FurdTurgason

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UK90 said:
Basketball: Hoosiers
Football: The Longest Yard (meaning the original 1970s version, NOT the crappy Adam Sandler remake)
Baseball: Bull Durham
Hockey: Slap Shot
Golf: Tin Cup
Boxing: Raging Bull
Wrestling: Vision Quest
Cycling: Breaking Away
Horse Racing: Seabiscuit
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Not a bad choice in the bunch.
 
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FurdTurgason

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Jamal Mercer said:
Football: Rudy

Basketball: White Men Can’t Jump

Baseball: Major League

Arm wrestling: Over the Top

Golf: Happy Gilmore

Dodgeball: Dodgeball
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Change my baseball to Major League. Love Field of Dreams but it's not really about baseball.
 
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FB. We Are Marshall, The Express, The Replacements
BB. Hoosiers, Blue Chips
Baseball. “61”, Bull Durham, Eight Men Out, Major League
HR. Secretariat (2010)
Golf. Bobby Jones…Stroke of Genius, Greatest Game Ever Played
 
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Jamal Mercer said:
Football: Rudy

Basketball: White Men Can’t Jump

Baseball: Major League

Arm wrestling: Over the Top

Golf: Happy Gilmore

Dodgeball: Dodgeball
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I know there aren’t many arm wrestling movies, but Over the Top is bad. There’s a documentary called “Pulling John” that is really good.
 
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FurdTurgason

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BBNinSC said:
There are a lot more movies about football and baseball than basketball. I wonder what that means
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If Bull Durham was about life in the G League...

Boys, this is a simple game. You bounce the ball, you pass the ball, you shoot the ball. But what do you boys do? You lollygag the ball around the perimeter. You lollygag the ball into the paint. You lollygag the ball up to the basket. What's that make us?

Lollygaggers, sir?

Lollygaggers.
 
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Track and Field : Personal Best
Boxing : The Fighter or Fat City
Baseball : Bad News Bears
Basketball : Basketball Diaries
Football : North Dallas 40
Soccer : Bend It like Beckham
Golf : Tin Cup

Personal Best had a different arc than the usual Heroic Win at the End
Bad News Bears focuses on kids playing the game.
I liked The Fighter over Raging Bull because of the family aspect. You could feel the hysteria his family engendered. Maybe Fat City because it looked at 3rd raters.
Basketball Diaries was small scale and dwelt on life outside of the sport
North Dallas 40 hit right before athletes started making so much money that their personal dramas still mattered.
Bend It Like Beckham had Keira Knightley looking like all the girls on my niece's soccer team. Teenage girls playing soccer can be so graceful and funny.
Tin Cup is Costner's best movie and he actually knows how to play golf.
 
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North Dallas Forty - Wikipedia

The Hustler - Full Cast & Crew - TV Guide

Rounders (1998) - IMDb

He Got Game (1998) - IMDb

Vision Quest (1985) - IMDb

Victory (1981) - IMDb

North Shore | Rotten Tomatoes

Side Out (1990) - IMDb
 
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Hoosiers
Friday Night Lights
The Natural
Goon
Caddyshack
Cinderella Man
Seabiscuit
The Hustler
The Wrestler
 
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WayneDougan_rivals170043

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Baseball: Major League
Football: Varsity Blues
Basketball: Baseketball (I'd like to say Hoosiers, but they need to clean up stuff like Buddy magically returning)
Golf: Tin Cup
Hockey: Who cares?
Soccer: Nobody cares.
 
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Amazed that Any Given Sunday and Friday Night Lights haven't been mentioned. I find those movies way more compelling because they ditch the Disney-esque feel good plot and nice and happy ending that 90% of sports movies go after. They feel real, and I think each presents it's sport better than almost all it's peers: Nothing gets high-school football quite like FNL (Varsity Blues close 2nd, but hammy at times lol), and nothing gets professional football like AGS.

Plus I just don't think you will find better speeches/monologues than Billy Bob Thornton or Al Pacino in their movies
 
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WayneDougan said:
Baseball: Major League
Football: Varsity Blues
Basketball: Baseketball (I'd like to say Hoosiers, but they need to clean up stuff like Buddy magically returning)
Golf: Tin Cup
Hockey: Who cares?
Soccer: Nobody cares.
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I don’t like hockey either, but Slap Shot is a classic. Give it a shot if you’ve not see it yet
The Hanson brothers are legit
 
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Football: Any Given Sunday
Boxing: Rocky/Raging Bull
Baseball: Eight Men Out
Bowling: Kingpin
Basketball: Hoosiers
Track: Chariots of Fire
 
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Baseball…..Major League
Football….North Dallas Forty
Golf…..Tin Cup
Basketball…..Hoosiers
 
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cole854

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Baseball...The Natural
Football...The Replacements
Basketball...Blue Chips
Golf...Dead Solid Perfect
General....Jericho Mile, Color of Money,
 
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