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karen lotz

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Aug 7, 2010 11:07 PM
Football season is upon us, what is your favorite football movie?

Only 10 poll choices, some good ones left off.

The Program
We Are Marshall
Invincible
North Dallas Forty
Aug 7, 2010 11:07pm
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Laley23

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Aug 7, 2010 11:09 PM
Rudy.
Aug 7, 2010 11:09pm
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justincredible

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Aug 7, 2010 11:10 PM
Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon
Aug 7, 2010 11:10pm
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justincredible

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Aug 7, 2010 11:11 PM
Serious answer: Remember the Titans.
Aug 7, 2010 11:11pm
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karen lotz

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Aug 7, 2010 11:14 PM
justincredible;445117 wrote:Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon


Forgot about this. Tony Danza killed it.
Aug 7, 2010 11:14pm
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Aug 7, 2010 11:15 PM
All the Right Moves
Aug 7, 2010 11:15pm
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Aug 7, 2010 11:16 PM
Remember the Titans
Friday Night Lights
Varsity Blues

Voted for the Titans but all are pretty close for me
Aug 7, 2010 11:16pm
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Aug 7, 2010 11:18 PM
LJ;445122 wrote:All the Right Moves

Another good one.
Aug 7, 2010 11:18pm
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Aug 7, 2010 11:18 PM
Rudy.
Brian's song

And if anyone has seen "the Rocky Bleir Story". That is also a damn good movie too.
Aug 7, 2010 11:18pm
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Aug 7, 2010 11:19 PM
Remember The Titans
The Blind Side
The Express
Rudy
We Are Marshall
Varsity Blues
Friday Night Lights
Gridiron Gang
Radio
Any Given Sunday
The Longest Yard
Necessary Roughness
Aug 7, 2010 11:19pm
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Aug 7, 2010 11:21 PM
All the Right Moves
That movie is the one that comes nearest to showing what high school football is like in towns in much Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia.
Aug 7, 2010 11:21pm
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Aug 7, 2010 11:43 PM
I voted Rudy but it is a very hard choice between Rudy, Remember The Titans and Friday Night Lights. All are great football movies!!
Aug 7, 2010 11:43pm
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Aug 7, 2010 11:52 PM
I will go with Any Given Sunday because of Pacino's speech before the playoff game. The Longest Yard (the old one, not the new one, which doesn't exist to me) would be my top, but it wasn't on the poll. If documentaries count, Go Tigers was a good one. If you count series, I would go with Playmakers as well. I wish ESPN didn't puss out and cancel the show. HBO really needs to buy the show. That show was definitely meant for HBO, and it was a good one.

Here is a list of most football movies. There are definitely some classics we are leaving out. http://www.bostonbaseball.com/football_movies/
Aug 7, 2010 11:52pm
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Aug 7, 2010 11:56 PM
All the Right Moves has always been my personal favorite. Like someone else said the movie reminded me a lot of high school football most particularly in the Ohio Valley area/Western PA.

Another movie I always liked that has not been mentioned is Best of TImes, starring Robin Williams and Kurt Russell. It was pretty hilarious IMO plus there were some great football scenes.

The Longest Yard remake was a bastardization of the original.
Aug 7, 2010 11:56pm
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Aug 8, 2010 12:00 AM
Little Danny;445166 wrote: Another movie I always liked that has not been mentioned is Best of TImes, starring Robin Williams and Kurt Russell. It was pretty hilarious IMO plus there were some great football scenes.

Thanks! I was trying to figure out the name of that movie. It was bugging me.
Aug 8, 2010 12:00am
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Aug 8, 2010 12:03 AM
like_that;445162 wrote:I will go with Any Given Sunday because of Pacino's speech before the playoff game.

I loved Pacino's speech! I would listen to it before every game!
Aug 8, 2010 12:03am
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Aug 8, 2010 12:14 AM
Vince Vaughn's performance in Rudy is what puts it over the top for me.
Aug 8, 2010 12:14am
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Aug 8, 2010 12:15 AM
Firad;445174 wrote:I loved Pacino's speech! I would listen to it before every game!
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Aug 8, 2010 12:15am
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Aug 8, 2010 12:26 AM
The Replacements.
Aug 8, 2010 12:26am
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Aug 8, 2010 12:29 AM
I voted Rudy, but Friday Night Lights is another solid one.
Aug 8, 2010 12:29am
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Aug 8, 2010 12:34 AM
I went Rudy, and had it as my first post. But Remember the Titans, especially the training camp before the season actually starts, is a very very close second. The first part of Remember the Titans is actually my favorite, but as a whole Rudy wins.
Aug 8, 2010 12:34am
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Aug 8, 2010 12:44 AM
Radio, since it was based on a true story, then Remember the Titans for the same reason.

I can't stand Friday Night Lights, because they changed history just to make a better ending to the movie.
Aug 8, 2010 12:44am
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Aug 8, 2010 12:45 AM
RUDY all the way!!!
Aug 8, 2010 12:45am
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Aug 8, 2010 12:48 AM
No love for Air Bud or Angels In The Endzone?
Aug 8, 2010 12:48am
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Aug 8, 2010 1:00 AM
ManO'War;445209 wrote:
I can't stand Friday Night Lights, because they changed history just to make a better ending to the movie.

That, and it was unrealistic. The players had under armour which definitely wasn't around in 1989, and the Dallas Carter players were grown ass men with full beards.
Aug 8, 2010 1:00am