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| Favorite Sports Movie |
| Blind Side |
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11% |
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| Hoosiers |
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30% |
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| Glory Road |
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9% |
[ 4 ] |
| Draft Day |
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0% |
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| Happy Gilmore |
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4% |
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| Jim Thorpe |
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0% |
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| 42 |
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6% |
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| Remember The Titans |
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11% |
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| Rudy |
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6% |
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| Any Given Sunday |
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2% |
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| Space Jam |
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9% |
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| Major League |
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6% |
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justintyme
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| THE MIGHTY DUCKS. |
At least one other person got the sport right!
Though should also add Miracle on that list. A movie about the single greatest sports moment in US History should at least make the cut! |
The single greatest sports moment in U.S. history? Sorry, not with you on that. I don't care about hockey. I lived through the Cold War and saw nothing glorious about it, so beating the Soviet Union in a hockey game didn't excite me one bit. |
A team of amateurs taking down the Big Red Machine? Major underdogs winning Gold and putting the hated Russians in their place, embarrassing them at the game they cared about the most? Embarrassing them so much that they didn't turn in their medals to be inscribed, and became pariahs in their own media? I still get chills thinking about it, can still hear Al Michael's call...
DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES? YES!
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"... putting the hated Russians in their place." Wow, isn't sports a great place to carry on hideous nationalist crap? |
Oh come on, how else would you describe the relations between the US and the USSR at that time? It may not be pretty, but when you are at war--cold or otherwise--it bleeds into other events.
But they were hated for other reasons too. We say things like "beat the hated Yankees" all the time. And that is what the biggest aspect of this story was. It was the hockey equivalent of the University of Minnesota Baseball team beating the Yankees in game 7 of the ALCS and then going on to win the World Series. The cold war backdrop just added higher stakes and a bigger sense of national pride. And there is nothing at all wrong with having national pride.
To frame this in another way, the International Ice Hockey Federation (which is based in Zurich) named it as the Century's Number 1 ice hockey story. So, it's much more than just an American story, but an international one.
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| Posted: 04/16/14 11:36 pm ::: |
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Pride, Above The Rim, He Got Game, Hoop Dreams, Remember the Titans._________________
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| Posted: 04/17/14 9:36 am ::: |
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| The Pistol has to be one of my favorites...shows Pete Marovich learning basketball skills as a youth.
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| Posted: 04/17/14 10:18 am ::: |
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| Hoop dreams was very good.
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| Posted: 04/17/14 3:36 pm ::: |
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My list:
Football - Brian's Song
Basketball - Hoosiers (Until I get Janie filmed)
Baseball - A League of Their Own
Golf - Tin Cup
Ice Skating - Ice Castles
Roller Skating - Rollerball (James Caan)
Soccer - Bend It Like Beckham
Racing - Grand Prix
Hockey - Mighty Ducks (The Miracle team didn't get a franchise named after them)
Track and Field - Chariots of Fire
Gymnastics - Stick It
Volleyball - ???
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dab44lb
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| Posted: 04/17/14 4:38 pm ::: |
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I protest this poll because it doesn't have the greatest sports movie of all time listed as an option...
Slap Shot!
In fact, there are no movies at all representing the best sport of them all. Hockey.
And no Bull Durham or Field of Dreams? |
Good Call!!!!!
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mb1
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| Posted: 04/19/14 6:36 pm ::: |
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| Just watched Secretariat, so add it and Seabiscuit to the list. Unknowingly, I left quite a few good movies off the initial poll. it has been fun to see all the great responses. There are many great sports movies , and Lord knows Rebkellians are passionate sports fans.
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| Posted: 04/19/14 9:24 pm ::: |
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Hands down for me..."Brian's Song."
Also love "Off the Rez," if that counts.
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mb1
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| Posted: 04/20/14 11:36 am ::: |
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| Sadly reminded "Hurricane" was left off the list.
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QUEENSofQueens
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| Posted: 04/21/14 1:20 pm ::: |
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A League of Their Own was my 1st favorite sports movie. Then Rudy.
My list would include:
Remember the Titans- (team building)
Love and Basketball-(reality for many misunderstood female athletes, and typical like Taylor Swift's, "You Belong with Me!" )
Brian's Song-(Tear jerker! Football has many.) I liked The Express as well.
Coach Carter (because that was me in so many ways)
Bend it like Beckham (A gem! Used this for for Cultural Diversity assignment)
I have to add my funny: "Kicking and Screaming"
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| Posted: 04/21/14 2:53 pm ::: |
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| The Karate Kid! Sweep the leg!
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mb1
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| Posted: 04/27/14 11:54 pm ::: |
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Invincible.
There iare certain to be others we have not listed.
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| Posted: 04/28/14 1:41 am ::: |
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*****Rush ********** - Came out late last year . Give it a chance ! The racing scenes in the theatre where just awesome. Not even into car racing of any kind .
Just to throw in some quality movies that haven't been mentioned -
Flicka
White man can't jump
Kingpin
Varsity Blues
The Replacements
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Glory Road
Guilty pleasures :
Just Wright
Never Back Down
Bring It On
Eddie
Angels in the Outfield
************Mr Baseball ********* - Love this simple movie way to much .
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| Posted: 04/28/14 8:53 am ::: |
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that would include one of my favorite -- really bad -- movies: Personal Best.
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One of Hollywood's earliest examples of portraying a female athlete: "Pat And Mike" (1952), starring Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and Aldo Ray.
In real-life, Hepburn was an avid golfer, tennis player, and swimmer, and used all of her skills in this movie.
Some of the big-name women golfers and tennis players at the time had a cameo appearance in this movie: Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Beverly Hanson, Gussie Moran, Betty Hicks, Alice Marble, and Helen Dettweiler.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045012/combined
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| Posted: 05/13/15 2:50 pm ::: |
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| For the Love of the Game; Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston
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