Best Football movie.
 

With the Draft day movie coming up, there have been a few notable movies in the past, NFL.com went through a list of them on their site last year..

Which movie do you think was the best of them all or rank the top 5 movie's you liked of them all.

Here's a list to help you.
Best football movies of all time | NFL.com

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My personal favourite is Gridiron gang, not sure how a couple of them beat it (especially the longest yard)

Friday Night Lights is incredible though

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Rudy is my favorite

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Remember the Titans

(but there are several good ones)

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Not sure about Rudy being number one. Can't support any movie that glorifies Notre Dame.

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I liked:
We Are Marshall
Remember The Titans
Any Given Sunday.

I know I will like Draft Day.

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The Longest Yard original
Brian's Song

For both ends of the spectrum

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I liked the last boy scout and necessary roughness the most.

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I really like all those movies, North Dallas Forty is a good one.

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I concur.
For me it's not just the ND thing.
What I don't get is, what is so special about a 28 year old getting in for 2-3 plays in a blowout game? So he dedicated his life to playing ND football and never gave up. Some people dedicate their lives to their families, or charity, or overcoming a disability. You know, worthwhile causes.

The capper is that the real life Rudy defrauded investors in his company to the tune of $400,000. Very inspirational.

sorry for the rant- just never got the allure of that film

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Completely in agreement about Rudy, ScottF.

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Any Given Sunday is probably my favorite.

Oh, and I have always liked North Dallas Forty.

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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.

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

oh, and Rudy

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

Here's a sample, for those who haven't seen it...

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I love Remember the Titans, We are Marshall and The Express.

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I don't think anyone has mentioned Hose Manning, played by Joe Kapp.

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Friday Night lights is also a movie, it was before the TV show. You may want to catch it, pretty good flick about Texas football in the Midland/Odessa area.

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Mox:*Playing football at West Canaan may have been the opportunity of your lifetime, but I don't want your life!

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Seen it. A few times. Didn't care for it nearly as much as I did the series. Don't get me wrong, I liked it. Just liked the series even more.

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Waterboy...and nothing else is remotely close

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+1. Wildcats and The Best of Times (Robin and Kurt).

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Never missed an episode. Friday Night Lights was good tv drama and well done.

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I actually didn't watch it while it was on air. I hadn't gotten into a weekly television show since my sophomore year in high school when I watched SNL all the time until this season of The Walking Dead. I took a stab at Friday Night Lights on Netflix and was immediately hooked. It's one of the few shows I've ever seen where you get an emotional attachment to the characters. I would have loved to been attached to Minka Kelly, Adrienne Palicki, and Connie Britton in other ways, too. :p

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Its not a movie either, but I was a fan of the show Playmakers on ESPN. Really wish they wouldn't have cancelled it. Friday Night Lights is a good show too, had me hooked.

My top 5 movies would be,
5 Friday Night Lights
4) Gridiron Gang
3) We Are Marshall
2) Remember The Titans
1) Any Given Sunday

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Best football movie to date
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I love WildCAts and Jerry McGuire and We Are Marshall.
I sorta lived Rudy. On several levels.

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MASH

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North Dallas Forty
Brian's Song
Original Longest Yard
Rudy
HBO series First and Ten some years ago was funny.

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agreed, these have my votes.

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Here's that clip I referred to in my previous post. I love this scene...

North Dallas Forty (10/10) Movie CLIP - It's a Sport Not a Business (1979) HD - YouTube

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1. Blind Side
2. Brians Song
3. North Dallas forty

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forgot about Grid Iron Gang, pretty hard to not rate that one pretty high, also original Longest Yard. So I'll revise:
1. Blind Side
2. Brian's Song
3. Grid Iron gang
4. North Dallas forty
5. Longest Yard, the original
Honorable mention------Bobbie Bouchet, the Waterboy

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North Dallas forty because it was gritty.

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The Longest Yard original
Brian's Song
Rudy
Invincible
Friday Night Lights.
and the WaterBoy!