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Off season movie question

FurdTerguson

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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
 
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
Rocky
Lou gherig baseball pride of the yankees
Brian's song football
Hoosier basketball
Greatest game ever played golf
 
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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
Not a bad choice in the bunch.
 
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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
 
There are a lot more movies about football and baseball than basketball. I wonder what that means
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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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
Football - Longest Yard (original)

Basketball - Hoosiers

Baseball - Bad News Bears (original)

Other - Slap Shot
 
Hoosiers
Friday Night Lights
The Natural
Goon
Caddyshack
Cinderella Man
Seabiscuit
The Hustler
The Wrestler
 
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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