What are everyone’s favorite football movies?
I ran across a Top 30 list of all time football movies and was surprised that one of my favorites failed to even make the list. So, here are my Top 5 plus the one less heralded film. Interested in how others rate their favorites.
1- Friday Night Lights. Really liked the book and the movie was also great. Thought the cast was perfect and the final game well done.
2- North Dallas Forty. A both funny and somewhat depressing look at a fictional pro team based on the Dallas Cowboys over one week of their season. Nick Nolte was outstanding.
3- Rudy. The Rocky of football. Man does Sean Astin take some serious punishment in the practice scenes. Co-stars a very young Vince Vaughn.
4- Brian‘s Song. Dare you to not tear up when Billy Dee Williams gives his speech about Brian Piccolo.
5- We Are Marshall. Based on the loss of nearly the entire Marshall team and staff in an airplane crash and then the attempt to rebuild the program using mostly freshman players at a time when they were typically ineligible. Sad but also uplifting.
My unheralded favorite is the Best of Times (1986) starring Kurt Russell and Robin Williams. This was neither a box office nor a critical success. Williams has been haunted for 15 years by dropping a pass in the “big game” against their arch rival. Russell was the star QB who was injured in the same game. Neither left town after high school. Russell is remembered as the greatest QB in their town’s history. Williams is the town goat who can’t let it go and decides to replay the game which ended in a scoreless tie. No one else is interested at first, and Williams uses some underhanded tactics to get the rematch ok’d by Russell and the town. Really enjoyed the game against the bigger and more impressive opponent. Love the line by Russell when discussing with Williams the plan: “You can’t remake history without an Offensive Line.”
I ran across a Top 30 list of all time football movies and was surprised that one of my favorites failed to even make the list. So, here are my Top 5 plus the one less heralded film. Interested in how others rate their favorites.
1- Friday Night Lights. Really liked the book and the movie was also great. Thought the cast was perfect and the final game well done.
2- North Dallas Forty. A both funny and somewhat depressing look at a fictional pro team based on the Dallas Cowboys over one week of their season. Nick Nolte was outstanding.
3- Rudy. The Rocky of football. Man does Sean Astin take some serious punishment in the practice scenes. Co-stars a very young Vince Vaughn.
4- Brian‘s Song. Dare you to not tear up when Billy Dee Williams gives his speech about Brian Piccolo.
5- We Are Marshall. Based on the loss of nearly the entire Marshall team and staff in an airplane crash and then the attempt to rebuild the program using mostly freshman players at a time when they were typically ineligible. Sad but also uplifting.
My unheralded favorite is the Best of Times (1986) starring Kurt Russell and Robin Williams. This was neither a box office nor a critical success. Williams has been haunted for 15 years by dropping a pass in the “big game” against their arch rival. Russell was the star QB who was injured in the same game. Neither left town after high school. Russell is remembered as the greatest QB in their town’s history. Williams is the town goat who can’t let it go and decides to replay the game which ended in a scoreless tie. No one else is interested at first, and Williams uses some underhanded tactics to get the rematch ok’d by Russell and the town. Really enjoyed the game against the bigger and more impressive opponent. Love the line by Russell when discussing with Williams the plan: “You can’t remake history without an Offensive Line.”
