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The top 3 sports movies of all time?
18/08/06
| Phil.K
Posted on 08/18/2006 7:59:23 AM PDT by Jakarta ex-pat
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To: kevkrom
Interesting, looking at the list so far, that almost all, if not all, of the ones listed are from the last 30 years or so. Are there any old-time sports movies that can stand up to this level?
1937's Playing the Ponies is one of the most important films ever made about horse racing---the "sport of kings."
To: Always Right
No it was based on the 1954 Milan High School team. When Hoosiers first came out, I remeber the embarassment of one reviewer who got blasted after saying he didn't like it because something like this could never happen in real life, not knowing it was loosely based on a true story.
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08/18/2006 8:19:18 AM PDT
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kevkrom
(War is not about proportionality. Knitting is about proportionality. War is about winning.)
To: NCC-1701
I forget which one it was, but one of those was the head coach of Memphis' semi-pro hockey team. Honestly!!!!! I believe it---I think a bunch of guys in that movie were real-time minor-leaguers.
To: zook
sorry wrong spelling.. Mike Bassett England manager.
It's a spoof of a fictitious England Manager during the World Cup.
You really need to know your English "Soccer" to thoroughly enjoy it though.
To: Jakarta ex-pat
That's not one of Michael Palin's "Ripping Yarns," is it? Now that you mention it, I've seen one of those where Palin is either a soccer fan or a coach whose team keeps losing game after game...
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08/18/2006 8:23:54 AM PDT
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zook
("We all knew someone in primary school who had a really powerful magnet")
To: retrokitten
I'd like to add Slapshot, Friday Night Lights and Cinderella Man. Friday Night Lights is a hell of a movie. My favorite line is when Winchell goes to the huddle near the end of Permian/Carter game and says, "OK boys, lets shock these punks."
I've watched the movie several times hoping that Winchell gets in on the final play this time.
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08/18/2006 8:24:36 AM PDT
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cowboyway
(My heroes have always been Cowboys)
To: Jakarta ex-pat
And while I'm thinking of soccer, Bend it like Beckham ain't half bad, either!
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08/18/2006 8:24:45 AM PDT
by
zook
("We all knew someone in primary school who had a really powerful magnet")
To: Hemingway's Ghost
"Old time hockey."
Eddie Shore!
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posted on
08/18/2006 8:28:03 AM PDT
by
cowboyway
(My heroes have always been Cowboys)
To: Jakarta ex-pat
Hoosiers
Raging Bull
The Natural
To: Jakarta ex-pat
Caddyshack
Slapshot
Let it Ride
To: Jakarta ex-pat
To: cowboyway
Love those old-time hockey shots.
Gump Worsley: 
To: kevkrom
Gladiator.
Don't tell me it's not a sports movie. The stakes were just a little higher back then!
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08/18/2006 8:39:05 AM PDT
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saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: Jakarta ex-pat
Rudy (also one of the best conservative movies of all time)
Field of Dreams
Slapshot
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08/18/2006 8:45:07 AM PDT
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StrictTime
(I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused.)
To: Hemingway's Ghost
I believe it---I think a bunch of guys in that movie were real-time minor-leaguers. That was the Johnstown (PA) Chiefs masquerading as the Charlestown Chiefs. In the paraded scene you can see the Johnstown high school marching band with the big "J" on their uniforms.
The Chiefs still play, in the ECHL.
SD
To: Jakarta ex-pat
Rudy
Hoosiers
ummmm
not sure...
To: StrictTime
Oh, and
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posted on
08/18/2006 8:53:47 AM PDT
by
StrictTime
(I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused.)
To: Jakarta ex-pat
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:06:52 AM PDT
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Mase
To: saganite
Gladiator. Don't tell me it's not a sports movie. The stakes were just a little higher back then! Oh, come now... if we're going there, we might as well include The Princess Bride for fencing, swimming, and wrestling.
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08/18/2006 9:10:52 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
(War is not about proportionality. Knitting is about proportionality. War is about winning.)
To: Jakarta ex-pat
Knute Rockne, All American
The last thing George said to me, 'Rock,' he said, 'sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper.'
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posted on
08/18/2006 9:11:59 AM PDT
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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