Top 10 Sports Movies

[TxHoops]

Since the other movie thread got some interest, and I was listening to a sports radio program driving back from Beaumont discussing sports movies, I thought it might be fun to have a thread dedicated to your favorite sports movies.  I am a basketball guy, so that plays into my tastes but it was evident in making this list that baseball (by far my least favorite of the 3 major sports) easily makes the best movies.  Here are my top 15, along with a favorite scene from each.:

15.  Bad News Bears - The original of course, just a classic from my youth:

 

 

14.  Major League (Uecker steals the show):

 

 

13.  Brian's Song - maybe the first sports movie I ever saw so I'm a bit sentimental here.  Still, a great cast and this speech gets me to this day:

 

 

12.  Tin Cup - I loved this one and this scene was just fantastic to me.  This is the first of a few Ron Shelton movies on my list, arguably the most prolific sports film maker, and the first a few Kevin Costner movies, arguably the most prolific sports movie actor:

 

 

11.  Bull Durham - Another Shelton/Costner classic:

 

 

 

 

10.  White Men Can't Jump - I probably would move this movie up several spots because it's one of the few I have saved on my DVR.  Love the dialogue in the movie and love the subject matter obviously.  Rated lower because realize cinematically, it's not as good and Rosie Perez's voice is one of the most annoying of all time

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9.  Jerry Maguire - just a great movie overall imo:

 

 

8.  The Natural - a bit of a schmaltzy movie but I like schmaltzy:

 

 

7.  Caddyshack - technically a sports movie:

 

 

6.  Remember the TItans:

 

 

5.  Rudy - iconic scene from an iconic movie:

 

 

4.  Rocky - arguably the greatest sports movie of all time (other than my #1) but I like my top 3 better:

 

 

3.  Field of Dreams - anyone whoever "had a catch" with their father or son should get "hit" by this one:

 

 

2.  Hoosiers - can't flip past the movie when it's on:

 

 

 

 

1.  Hoop Dreams - easily the best sports movie of all time IMO.  3 hours and I can still watch it and be enthralled the entire time.  It doesn't really have that one scene though so here is simply the trailer.  If you haven't seen it, I think it's still available on YouTube in it's entirety.  Highly, highly recommend it:

 

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[Tigers2010]

White Men Can't Jump, Raging Bull, Moneyball, Friday Night Lights, The Waterboy, Varsity Blues, Happy Gilmore, The Replacements, Miracle....all a few to throw around. I'll have to do some pondering and I will come up with a comprehensive "Top 10".

[Ty Cobb]

Most of my favorites come from TxHoops list.  In no particular order, here are my favorites:

8 Men Out (not on hoops list)

The Sandlot (not on hoops list)

Bull Durham

Rocky (add Rocky II, III and IV)

Field of Dreams

Caddy Shack (great one liners)

Rudy 

Tin Cup

Major League

We Are Marshall

Cobb (based on the book by Al Stump)

 

 

 

[Englebert]

What, no BASEketball on this list. LOL. (I can't judge...I've never seen the movie. But from what I've heard, I'm guessing the omission is justifiable.)

[tvc184]

Lots of goods sports movies and I wouldn’t try to rate them in some kind of ranking. There are a few that I really enjoy watching more than others. 

A couple that really stand out are Miracle about the 1980 US hockey team’s stunning (maybe biggest in sports history) victory over the USSR in the Olympics and Hoosiers. I don’t even like hockey and I have no desire to watch any of it but the movie Miracle is great. 

I really like the original Longest Yard and I rarely see it mentioned and then Caddie Shack..... which like Miracle, is entertaining even if you didn’t like golf... which I do. 

[Hagar]

Big Fan of Tin Cup.  While Hoops put the "last ball, do or die" scene in, I prefer Roy explaining the golf swing.  Entertaining as well as instructional.  I will admit, it didn't help me any.  I was watching a major many years ago, and they showed a close up of a players 8 iron, as he was getting ready to address the ball.  Face looked grungy, all except the dead center which was shiny.  I went and looked at my 8 iron.  It was grungy in the middle and shiny everywhere else.

 

 

[Hagar]

Oh, and my others, and I'm swinging with my eyes closed here.  Just winging it.

Hoosiers, Major League, Friday Night Lights, an HBO golf movie, Dead Solid Perfect, Caddy Shack, and The Sand Lot, which I just watched (again for the umpteenth time) last week.

And this basketball classic, The Air Up There.

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[TxHoops]

3 hours ago, REBgp said:

Big Fan of Tin Cup.  While Hoops put the "last ball, do or die" scene in, I prefer Roy explaining the golf swing.  Entertaining as well as instructional.  I will admit, it didn't help me any.  I was watching a major many years ago, and they showed a close up of a players 8 iron, as he was getting ready to address the ball.  Face looked grungy, all except the dead center which was shiny.  I went and looked at my 8 iron.  It was grungy in the middle and shiny everywhere else.

 

 

I actually probably like this scene better.  But I chose to post the iconic scene.  Well, the one you posted and this one:

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”well what the h&$$ you think you look like shootin’ them chili peppers up Lee Janzen’s a&&??”  (Insert crying/laughing face)

[PAMFAM10]

Friday night lights. Texas football boobie miles.

[Hagar]

5 hours ago, TxHoops said:

I actually probably like this scene better.  But I chose to post the iconic scene.  Well, the one you posted and this one:

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”well what the h&$$ you think you look like shootin’ them chili peppers up Lee Janzen’s a&&??”  (Insert crying/laughing face)

That part still makes me laugh.  And here's to the finely tuned athlete.  Been many rounds I've played I should have prepped like that  .  Couldn't hurt.  You know what I constantly use to think?  How come I could hit an 80+ Mph fastball, but yet have so much trouble hitting a golf ball just sitting there?  In a tournament one time and they stopped play to step off my divot.  Some guy from Nebraska came out and started dropping corn in it.  They told me it was a club record, and probably a state/national record, but I didn't get no trophy or nothing. On the plus side, they brought a front end loader over so we could replace the divot.  Yep, my dreams of being a PGA Pro were short lived.  

[LumRaiderFan]

Good lists...I would add Cinderella Man

A true underdog movie.

[mat]

Not exactly a sports movie but I did enjoy the sporting accomplishments of Forest Gump.

[rhino1877]

"When the game stands tall" is another good one! Radio.....