best football movie

[ROCK*60*]

1.the program
2.friday night lights
3.rember the titans
4.rudy
5.longest yard

GO CARDS

[PantherBlitz42]

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
varsity blues
remember the titans
rudy
the junction boys

[ACE]

1. Varsity Blues...no comparison




2. The Replacements
3. The Longest Yard
4. Friday Night Lights
5. Remember The Titans

[DEVILOLOGIST]

BLOOD OF HEROES was a good one too. Well not really football but all the greatness that football stands for. Beating the crap out of your opponents, displaying your superiority and pain is temporary- glory is forever.

[MCHS_FBALL#14]

1.) Friday Night Lights
2.) Remember The Titans
3.) Varsity Blues
4.) Junction Boys
5.) The Replacements

[Battle Tested]

water boy

[bigballer4]

How can anybody say that Friday Night Lights is a good movie? The team loses at the end. I always thought that The Replacements by far is the best football movie EVER!

[Nuffsaid23]

You all are forgetting about Any Given Sunday! That's my second favorite movie to Friday Night Lights. Rudy is #3

[moofer]

Well my pics would be.....
1) Remember the Titans
2) Rudy
3) North Dallas Fourty
4)Varsity Blues
5)Junction Boys

Just IMO

[kyfan]

Remember the Titans
Friday Night Lights
Junction Boys

[Pond Creek]

Any Given Sunday!
The speech that Al Pacino gives in the locker room before the game is AWESOME!

[Football24_7]

You can keep all your "hollywood-fancied-up" movies made to look all slick and stylized. THE PROGRAM was about as UNrealistic toward football (and technically INaccurate) as THE WATERBOY was (at least the WATERBOY meant to be funny).

As far as GOOD football movies that really hold up to a REALISTIC standard (Xs and Os talked about being accurate, game-violence being true to life -- not 'cartoonish' like ANY GIVEN SUNDAY, and the lives of the players being REAL and not stylized)...

1. All the Right Moves
Best depiction of what high school football is REALLY about from a player's perspective...both on AND off the field. Also, gives people in a BASKETBALL state a look at what football means in a FOOTBALL state! (Pennsylvania)
http://www.apolloguide.com/mov_fullrev.asp?CID=3958

2. Brian's Song (original, ABC made-for-tv movie)
Makes pro athletes look a lot more "like us" than they seem on tv...and gives a look at what the game was like before it was THE primary professional sport. Also, is fun to watch from an X's and O's point of view -- with wide-open offenses, the high school game TODAY is much more advanced than the pro game was then!
Also, the ONLY movie where it's okay for a GUY to CRY!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1003076-brians_song/about.php

3. Something for Joey
Another made-for-tv movie from the early 80s about Brian Cappelleti -- overachieving running back from Penn State who overcame a terrible injury to be the nation's #1 back in the late 70s -- and his relationship with his younger brother, Joey, who had terminal leukemia. When it shows Brian accept an award for courage at a banquet and say he's nowhere near as courageous as Joey and asks him to come up on the stage because the trophy should belong to him...well, it's ROUGH!!!
Okay, there's TWO movies it's alright for a guy to cry while watching (kind of welling up right now just thinking about it!).
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/something_for_joey/

4. EVERYBODY'S ALL AMERICAN
WAY too long, but GREAT actual football footage from 50's LSU games; based on novel by sportswriter Frank Deford that was loosely based on life of LSU Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/search/movie.php?search=Everybody%27s+All+American&searchby=movies

5. FOOTBALL AMERICA
It's not an actual "movie," but a documentary -- or rather, a series of 15 minute vignettes about great REAL-LIFE football stories throughout the country.
One features Gaulludet University's team (an all-deaf school) and the different things they have to do to play (like use a big bass drum on the sidelines to give VIBRATION for the snap count each play).
Another is about a team in Alaska that plays its home games on the only piece of flat land available -- grass can't grow on it because of the weather...it's all just GRAY SILT (imagine sand and dirt mixed together with thousands of small rocks right at the surface).
There's a great story of a 65 year old semi-pro player that just can't stop playing.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nfl_football_america/about.php

Honorable Mention: Knute Rockne: All American -- the story of the father of Notre Dame football.

[Pond Creek]

You can keep all your "hollywood-fancied-up" movies made to look all slick and stylized. THE PROGRAM was about as UNrealistic toward football (and technically INaccurate) as THE WATERBOY was (at least the WATERBOY meant to be funny).

As far as GOOD football movies that really hold up to a REALISTIC standard (Xs and Os talked about being accurate, game-violence being true to life -- not 'cartoonish' like ANY GIVEN SUNDAY, and the lives of the players being REAL and not stylized)...

1. All the Right Moves
Best depiction of what high school football is REALLY about from a player's perspective...both on AND off the field. Also, gives people in a BASKETBALL state a look at what football means in a FOOTBALL state! (Pennsylvania)
http://www.apolloguide.com/mov_fullrev.asp?CID=3958

2. Brian's Song (original, ABC made-for-tv movie)
Makes pro athletes look a lot more "like us" than they seem on tv...and gives a look at what the game was like before it was THE primary professional sport. Also, is fun to watch from an X's and O's point of view -- with wide-open offenses, the high school game TODAY is much more advanced than the pro game was then!
Also, the ONLY movie where it's okay for a GUY to CRY!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1003076-brians_song/about.php

3. Something for Joey
Another made-for-tv movie from the early 80s about Brian Cappelleti -- overachieving running back from Penn State who overcame a terrible injury to be the nation's #1 back in the late 70s -- and his relationship with his younger brother, Joey, who had terminal leukemia. When it shows Brian accept an award for courage at a banquet and say he's nowhere near as courageous as Joey and asks him to come up on the stage because the trophy should belong to him...well, it's ROUGH!!!
Okay, there's TWO movies it's alright for a guy to cry while watching (kind of welling up right now just thinking about it!).
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/something_for_joey/

4. EVERYBODY'S ALL AMERICAN
WAY too long, but GREAT actual football footage from 50's LSU games; based on novel by sportswriter Frank Deford that was loosely based on life of LSU Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/search/movie.php?search=Everybody%27s+All+American&searchby=movies

5. FOOTBALL AMERICA
It's not an actual "movie," but a documentary -- or rather, a series of 15 minute vignettes about great REAL-LIFE football stories throughout the country.
One features Gaulludet University's team (an all-deaf school) and the different things they have to do to play (like use a big bass drum on the sidelines to give VIBRATION for the snap count each play).
Another is about a team in Alaska that plays its home games on the only piece of flat land available -- grass can't grow on it because of the weather...it's all just GRAY SILT (imagine sand and dirt mixed together with thousands of small rocks right at the surface).
There's a great story of a 65 year old semi-pro player that just can't stop playing.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nfl_football_america/about.php

Honorable Mention: Knute Rockne: All American -- the story of the father of Notre Dame football.

Was it Gen Siskel or is Robert Ebert your father? :lmao:

[PantherPride68]

The Original Longest Yard
Friday Night Lights
North Dallas Forty
The Program
Rudy

Worst one ever
Any Given Sunday

[Football24_7]

The Original Longest Yard
Friday Night Lights
North Dallas Forty
The Program
Rudy

Worst one ever
Any Given Sunday

How could I forget the ORIGINAL Longest Yard!?

...oh, and POND CREEK, my momma always taught me, if I'm gonna do anything, always do my best.

[pirate_girl]

Friday Night Lights is the BEST!! I cried at the end. I would have died if it had happen to my team. I also like Remember the Titans, it used to be my fav. until Friday Night Lights came out.

[Street Carp]

Friday Night lights most def... had something like that kinda happen to our team last season which kinda touched me

[PantherPride68]

Any Given Sunday!
The speech that Al Pacino gives in the locker room before the game is AWESOME!That speech was great but it was the only good part of that turd of a movie IMO.:dump:

[PantherPride68]

Friday Night Lights is the BEST!! I cried at the end. I would have died if it had happen to my team. I also like Remember the Titans, it used to be my fav. until Friday Night Lights came out.Something like that did happen to us my senior year in '94 when we fumbled on the 3 yard line with 1:00 to go in the game and lost by 6 against beechwood. The first time I saw FNL I balled my eyes out. Also felt more real being that the team was called the Panthers.

[chrisgibsonsmom]

The Replacements

[TERMINATOR X]

Myself I like Varsity Blues... FNL is the **** though!

[pirate_girl]

Myself I like Varsity Blues... FNL is the **** though!
Yeah, It was a funny movie!

[former_raider80]

1.Friday night lights
2.Rudy
3.Any Giving Sunday
4.The Waterboy
5.Remember the Titians

[sf_football]

i like varsity blues and friday night lights

[blackcatfan_48]

1.Remember the Titans
2.Friday Night Lights
3.The Longest Yard
4.Rudy
5.The Replacements

[TCat09]

Remember the Titans
Varsity Blues
The Longest Yard (Newer one- not so much for football as humor)
The Replacements
Friday Night Lights

[moofer]

how could i forget about Brians Song. That movie was great. Really brought  atear to my eye

[corndog23]

Brian's Song...made me cry

Remember the Titans....made me cry

Those 2 are the best.

[TE#82]

i love any type of football movie but Rudy had to be the top football movie ever. it has the tradition of football the pride of football and the toughness of football. i have watched Rudy id say 20 times or more and i never get tired of seeing them carrying him off of the field i get chill bumps every time.
heres my favorite

1. Rudy
      puts distance on every other movie


2. The Program - i haven't seen it on any ones list its a bad movie
3. FNL
4. Remember The Titian's
5. The Longest Yard

[crazytaxidriver]

Friday night lights
Necessary Roughness
Varsity Blues
Rudy
The Program
Remember the Titans
Hometown Hero

[TennisCAT23]

Remember the Titans is one of the greatest sport movies of all time....I was always a big Rudy fan...but I think The Longest Yard is #2...Huge Cowboy fan love my boy Michael Irvin

[BigRed50]

Remember The Titans!!

[footballplayer11]

The little giants lol

[WILDMAN#14]

1.) varsity blues
2.) any given sunday
3.) longest yard
4.) friday night lights
5.) remember the titans

[CLEAN-UP HITTER]

1. Remember the Titans
2. The Replacements
3.Rudy
4.Varsity Blues
5.Friday Night Lights (good Book)

[valleycat50]

Varsity Blues all the way baby...

[branch 83]

1.Varsity Blues
2.Friday night lights
3.Any given sunday

[chicken wing]

1.Varsity Blues
2.Friday night lights
3.Any given sunday

good list

[Delk_Fan_00]

The Program
Rudy
Friday Night Lights
Junction Boys
Varsity Blues

[corndog23]

Varsity Blues is terrible IMO.

Remember the Titans is my favorite movie of all time.

[Eagles]

1.) Friday Night Lights
2.) Remember The Titans
3.) Varsity Blues
4.) Junction Boys
5.) The Replacements


Exactly my picks and in order at that~!~

[phs1986]

1. Remember the Titans
2. Rudy
3. Varsity Blues
4. Friday Night Lights
5. Junction Boys

[YeGymnasium]

The original "Longest Yard" :Thumbs:

[BFritz]

How can anybody say that Friday Night Lights is a good movie? The team loses at the end. I always thought that The Replacements by far is the best football movie EVER!

Friday Night Lights was horrible.

Can't really think right now, but, off the top of my head:
1 Varsity Blues
2 The Replacements
3 The Program
4 Rudi
5 Waterboy

[rb3]

1. Remember the Titans
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Brian's Song
4. The Longest Yard
5. Hometown Hero

[BurntTires]

Remember the Titans
Friday Night Lights
Junction Boys
Varsity Blues
Rudy

[ooh-rah]

Remember the Titans

[BFritz]

Remember the Titans

What ya'll starin at ol' Sunshine foe?

[2B30]

Friday Night Lights

[BlackcatAlum]

Friday Night Lights
Remember the Titans
Rudy
Replacments
The Program
The Longest Yard
Varsity Blues

In no order !

[hhsgrad09]

Wow...these are all really good movies!!! Well, my top 5:
1. Friday Night Lights
2. Any Given Sunday
3. Remember The Titans
4. The Longest Yard
5. The Replacements

[MCHStennischic]

water boy
Haha Love it:thumpsup:

[Billnz28]

Remember the Titans
Friday Night Lights
Varsity Blues
The Program
Rudy
The Replacements
Any Given Sunday
The longest Yard
The Longest Yard ( Adam Sandler)
Water Boy LOL
Radio ( sort of a Football Movie )

[Tough Turf]

I saw one on TV today. It was called "Wildcats" and it was mainly about a female high school football coach which was played by Goldie Hawn. Older like movie.:popcorn:

[MR.INCREDIBLE]

1. Friday Night Lights
2.Remember the Titans
3.Rudy
4.Varsity Blues
5.Brian's Song

Some worth mentioning: Necessary Roughness, Best of Times and Wildcats

[PLAYBOY5]

Friday Night Lights