D_it_up

Completely in agreement about Rudy, ScottF.

FinSaint

Any Given Sunday is probably my favorite.

Oh, and I have always liked North Dallas Forty.

jeanpierre

Don't apologize for a Terrible movie...

watched as a concession regretting to this day that hour and fifteen minutes I'll never get back...

TheOak

The Program
Friday Night Lights
Varsity Blues
The Replacements
The Water Boy
Radio
Johnny B Good
All the Right Moves
Necessary Roughness

There is no bad football movie.

ScottF

Wildcats
Little Giants
the one with Robin Williams & Kurt Russell
one of the Rock's

oh, and Rudy

TheOak

Wasn't asking, I love football, I've never seen a bad football movie.

That said, some movies are about football and some just have football in them.

Rudy wasn't a bad movie but like Radio it was a movie that had football as a setting with the story being about something else. So while IMDB and some critics classify those as football movies, I've seen both and neither told a story about the game of or playing football.

Saintswrath

I loved Any given sunday which was probably as close to real as it gets and then the Rudy movie was good.

Crusader

I really like Any given sunday (Cameron Diaz), The Program, Friday Night Lights and
Varsity Blues. Waterboy, The replacements and The longest yards are good for laughing.

D_it_up

Not a movie, but the Friday Night Lights television show was excellent. I actually prefer that over any football movie I've seen. That's saying a lot for me, because I am a big fan of Remember the Titans, The Replacements, Brian's Song, and The Last Boy Scout.

Saint_LB

For me it is North Dallas 40 and the rest are somewhere in the distance in the rear view mirror. I love the part when the 'Tuz, playing a lineman for the Cowboys...a real football player...goes off on one of the coaches. "When we call it a game, you call it a business. When we call it a business, you call it a game!" I particularly like the part when, at the end of the rant, Nick Nolte says, "Far out!"

It is interesting to note that this movie was based on the real story of Pete Gent, played by Nick, and his issues with Coach Landry and the FO, and his friend Don Meredith, played by Mac Davis.

Great movie and one of the most realistic professional football movies I've ever seen.

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