Is Coach Riley the biggest prick in movie history??

And the triple deke is lame - incredibly lame.

hard to argue with all those titles.

You're not even a has been......





You're a never was.

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Coach Kilmer was a way bigger prick.

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Agree with this

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touche'

Cake eater

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i'm gonna go against the grain and say Bombay was a bigger prick.He was a high-powered attorney with a "win at all costs" attitude. Later on he teaches the kids about teamwork, freindship and being part of a team. Oh wait he then finds out that Adam Banks, one of the best players in the area who is currently on a different roster, should actually be playing for his team due to a slight technicality. At which point Gordon throws his entire philosophy out the window to make goddamn sure Adam is forced to join his squad

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its too late

i already summarized the cracked article

but i do like how you used direct quotes

But I think Bombays move was just as much sticking it to Coach Riley as it was to actually win.

Since its been cited twice in the first page, here is the article:

TLDR

[quote]Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) in The Mighty Ducks is a high-powered attorney with a "win at all costs" attitude that we assume was handed out in mid-'90s lawyer college alongside vials of cocaine and vanity license plates.


But after he's forced to coach the Ducks, a kid's hockey team, to fulfill a community service obligation, Gordon learns that there are more important things in life than winning, such as friendship, teamwork, and being a part of something bigger than yourself. As he says later in the movie:
"A team is something you belong to. Something you feel. And I'm not gonna let those kids down."

Except ...

Except when Gordon finds out that Adam Banks, one of the best players in the area who is currently on a different roster, should actually be playing for his team due to a slight technicality. At which point Gordon throws his entire philosophy out the window to make goddamn sure Adam is forced to join his squad of wacky misfits.


Even though Adam has spent the entire season playing for another team, forming meaningful bonds and friendships with his fellow players (you know, those things Gordon said were more important than winning), Gordon confronts Adam, Adam's coach, and Adam's father, and demands that Adam be transferred over to the Ducks. He even threatens them all with legal action, since having Adam play for a team that is technically outside of his residential district is against the official rules of pee-wee hockey. Lawyers take sports very seriously, remember -- there have been protracted congressional hearings about baseball conducted in the midst of a handful of foreign wars and crushing domestic poverty.

Poor Adam (who, we reiterate, is just a kid) really wants to play with his friends, and even gets his dad to ask the league officials to allow an exception to the rules just this once, but Gordon pitches a snarling bitch fit and refuses to let it slide.


If a team is "something you belong to" and "something you feel," then let Adam play with his freaking friends, you a-hole. Instead, Adam is transplanted onto a team where nobody likes him, and everyone gives him shite until his superior skill plays a major role in leading the Ducks to victory at the end of the film. Winning is clearly everything to Gordon, and regardless of whatever bullshite speeches fall out of his mouth, he has obviously taught his team the same lesson, since they don't accept Adam until after he helps them win.


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but i do like how you used direct quotes

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copy and paste my man copy and paste