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Top 5 Sports Movies Of All Time
http://theconservativecomeback.blogspot.com/ ^ | 2/18/09 | TheConservativeComeback

Posted on 02/18/2009 9:50:28 AM PST by TheConservativeComeback

If you have been reading this blog since its inception one month ago, you know that we like to mix in a lot of sports and movie posts. Today we combine those with our top 5 sports movies of all time.

A couple of rules you should be aware of with our selection process. First, if your favorite sports movie was made in the 40s or 50s...it is not on this list. I'm going to speak the truth right now and say what a lot of people won't say, Pauly Shore would've been a 5 time Oscar winner in the 40s. For the most part the acting was terrible.

Second, being that this list is so short we decided that sports comedies would be put under a different category. So while Slapshot, Major League, and Caddyshack are some of the great movies ever made, they fall under a different list.

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1 posted on 02/18/2009 9:50:28 AM PST by TheConservativeComeback
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To: TheConservativeComeback

Rocky would be my pick.


2 posted on 02/18/2009 9:51:05 AM PST by murron (Proud Marine Mom)
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To: murron

excellent choice


3 posted on 02/18/2009 9:51:24 AM PST by TheConservativeComeback
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To: TheConservativeComeback

Rudy


4 posted on 02/18/2009 9:51:52 AM PST by JZelle
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To: TheConservativeComeback
Hoosiers is in there.

Chariots of Fire.

Longest Yard (original)

Remember the Titans

Rocky I

5 posted on 02/18/2009 9:51:53 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: LS

Wew were real close to throwing Remember the Titans in there. It was in the discussion


6 posted on 02/18/2009 9:53:21 AM PST by TheConservativeComeback
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To: TheConservativeComeback

Breaking Away


7 posted on 02/18/2009 9:53:27 AM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: TheConservativeComeback

Gladiator


8 posted on 02/18/2009 9:54:36 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (American Revolution II -- overdue)
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9 posted on 02/18/2009 9:54:47 AM PST by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: Drango

The Natural

And I don’t even like baseball.


10 posted on 02/18/2009 9:55:11 AM PST by Kartographer
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To: ClearCase_guy

Gladiator the boxing movie or Gladiator with Russell Crowe?


11 posted on 02/18/2009 9:55:15 AM PST by TheConservativeComeback
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To: Kartographer

The Natural is in the top 5


12 posted on 02/18/2009 9:55:50 AM PST by TheConservativeComeback
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To: TheConservativeComeback

Russell Crowe, of course.


13 posted on 02/18/2009 9:55:59 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (American Revolution II -- overdue)
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To: LS

Right you are..”Chariots of Fire”....awesome flic..


14 posted on 02/18/2009 9:56:00 AM PST by ken5050 (Don't blame me, I voted for Palin!!)
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To: TheConservativeComeback

Brians Song (sobbing hysterically while my wife wipes my tears with her hankie and holds my trembling hand)


15 posted on 02/18/2009 9:56:02 AM PST by wardaddy (I'm for Sarah. Nuff said, you either get it or you don't.)
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To: TheConservativeComeback

The Waterfront (boxing)...


16 posted on 02/18/2009 9:56:31 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: TheConservativeComeback

Facing the Giants.


17 posted on 02/18/2009 9:56:38 AM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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To: TheConservativeComeback
You had better actors then than you do now. Too many today are just celebrities or "stars".

So I'll go ahead and nominate "Knute Rockne All American".
You know, the one with that fine actor in that small part that you just knew was going to go places.

18 posted on 02/18/2009 9:57:01 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weight-lifting sessions each week and...)
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"First, if your favorite sports movie was made in the 40s or 50s...it is not on this list. I'm going to speak the truth right now and say what a lot of people won't say, Pauly Shore would've been a 5 time Oscar winner in the 40s."

Stopped reading right there...


19 posted on 02/18/2009 9:57:12 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: TheConservativeComeback

#1.... The Sandlot
#2.... Brian’s Song
#3.... Bull Durham
#4.... Field of Dreams
#5.... Slapshot


20 posted on 02/18/2009 9:57:18 AM PST by Hatteras
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