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Football Film Poll!

🕑 Added 2024-09-27 15:00:03 +0000 UTC

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Neal Romanek

The 70s was a time of top football movies.

Neal Romanek

Nah, it's a great romantic comedy and a quintessential piece of 1990s culture.

Thomas Yanez

Thanks for the tip!

pete

Another football movie to watch is The Program (1993), starring a young Halle Berry and James Caan.

Scott Kerr

I have to say, I agree.

Athos Count de la Fère

If you are going to watch The Longest Yard, it needs to be the 70's original with Burt Reynolds.

Philip Davetas

It had one of LL Cool J's first raps. It wasn't even featured on the soundtrack and yet they bookended the movie with it. https://youtu.be/zNz_ROlyoqA?si=h996ImIY4_dVirtA.

Philip Davetas

I was okay with it, but it doesn't fit in with the football poll. It's more of a romance movie.

Philip Davetas

Man, I love WILDCATS.

David W.

I guess you've both seen The Waterboy? :)

Odd Thomas

I love Tom Cruise but Jerry Maguire is one of the worst films ever

Shehab Dawoud

I think a Basketball poll would've been more relevant with the NBA starting soon. The Football poll could've been saved for when we get closer to the Super Bowl. Hope we can get it soon, maybe around All-Star weekend? Anyway, my vote is 'Any Given Sunday', for the sole purpose of you hearing one of the greatest motivational speeches ever.

Ray Johnson

Yes! And Best of Times!

Ray Johnson

Wildcats is a great one and so is Best of Times with Kurt Russell and Robin Williams!

Hector M.

Little Giants Towers! above all....

FischerMax98

Would like to have seen “The Replacements” on the list, but there’s a lot of good ones here. Going with Varsity Blues.

Jonathan Patrick

If you watch Jerry Maguire, I recommend "Vanilla Sky" (2001) as well. Also Tom Cruise and same director Cameron Crowe, as Jerry Maguire. They make a great team.

Tostito Buddy

Do you think rugby is soccer? Insecurity doesn't factor into it, ma'am. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyOXY8BTWjg

Adrian Swales

While Jerry Maguire is an amazing movie, I wouldn't consider it a football movie.

Donna Castellano

I hope more than Jerry Maguire gets a watch in this poll. I hate that movie.

TGrimace

I wish the original "The Longest Yard" was on here. I would've voted for that first and foremost!

Chris Baldwin

If you wanted to put "The Longest Yard" on here, the 1974 original should have been first. It starred Burt Reynolds, whereas in the 2005 version Burt is only a bit player. For your next drama poll can I suggest the film "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri"? A multiple Oscar winner from 2017. Thank you.

Paul Cox

Not just not true, but aggressively UNtrue.

Rudy Hernandez

Fantastic choice!!!

metadata

I nominate Wildcats with Goldie Hawn

Tyler Foster

Popcorn in Bed did it.

Philip Davetas

I don't know if I'd consider BLIND SIDE a football movie. I mean, I guess it's about a football player. I like this flick though even though it's caked in controversy for not being true to the facts.

John Fitzpatrick

I like the original version better.

Catherine LW

You’ve never watched an American football game, apparently. Insecure?

EdmanXERO

It's too bad you guys already saw Remember the Titans. Haha. Guess Jerry Maguire or Any Given Sunday will have to suffice. :P

Samolina Pilchard

Semi-Tough with Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson

Brandon Meng

While Jerry Maguire is the least "football" of these films, it's an all-time classic for me.

Birdie Num Num

I see the Tuohys claim Oher tried to extort 15 million from them before going public with his story. Regardless, I thought this film getting Oscar wins/noms was a low point in their history. The trailer looks like a fake trailer from Tropic Thunder or something.

Smooticus

Tough to choose. I really wish more attention would be given to the 1974 original Longest Yard. The Sandler version is good, but the original is superior Another is North Dallas Forty. It's an interesting look at being a pro football player in the 1970's that still has some relevance today

Smooticus

The far superior version. Much grittier and Eddie Albert is an absolute bastard as the warden.

Birdie Num Num

Heaven Can Wait has more football scenes than some of these choices. Also Lock Up.

Keith Brown

The real Rudy in real life has been reported on as a snake oil salesman selling the Hollywood image of himself on the talk circuit but is a phony in real life.

James Rogers

Necessary Roughness better than any of the selections presented on this poll.

Antmovies

Rudy hands down. But I also thought of The Replacements seeing it wasn't on this list. Did you guys already do that? Someone did. 🤔

Jeremy Charlie

Rudy! Rudy! Rudy! As a side note, take a look at The Replacements, gene Hackman and Keanu reves.

Ian

So do I , I was mearly saying when I first read it being British I thought of what you would call soccer no big deal 🤷

mikethemotormouth

With the cameos, I've a very special place in my heart for the remake

hogweed

most of the world call it football

Ian

Ngl when I saw football I though you were talking what us British call football lol surprised therefore invincible isn't in the list but went for the blind side as it's excellent 👍

Paul Cox

The Tuohys put him in basically the same kind of conservatorship Britney Spears was in, reshaping his story to make themselves look like saints, and then keeping most of the money. S H A D Y

Tyler Foster

Also, for those who don't know, Rudy was recently released on 4K UHD with a brand-new director's cut that restores two scenes. I expect TBR would watch the theatrical cut, but fans may be interested in the longer version.

Tyler Foster

Agreeing with the comments that the original Longest Yard should probably be first, and The Blind Side can probably fall by the wayside given its subject has just recently started calling it a complete fiction and pushing back against his whole rags-to-riches story.

Mr. Writhms

The original "The Longest Yard" (1974) with Burt Reynolds is the classic.

Tostito Buddy

American football VS Rugby makes me think of the Crocodile Dundee line "That's not a knife. That's a knife." It would be like if Australia had a version of basketball where the players wore mylar jumpsuits with fish bowl helmets. American football players look like Flash Gordon henchmen to me. Real men wear shirts and a pair of shorts when they smack each other to the ground over a ball. That's just basic science.