re: Gordon Bombay

Although Coach Bombay was a badass, he definitely wasn't the best. The Flying V was a gimmick.

Here are my top 3:

1. Irv Blitzer (John Candy)
- You have to be a badass in order to get 4 Jamaicans to qualify for the Olympics in bobsledding. Also, I attribute a lot of that respect they got in the end to Irv Blitzer's amazing tutelage. Because of him, a small island in the Caribbean earned the respect of the Swiss bobsledding team.

2. Herb Brooks (Kurt Russell)
- Kicked arse and beat the Russians. Enough said. Also, Kurt Russell is Snake Plissken, so he has that going for him too.

3. Jimmy McGinty, Coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman)
- Gene Hackman gets the 3rd place spot mainly for his work in The Replacements. Only a truly badass coach can turn that moron Keanu Reeves into an awesome quarterback who knew sign language. Oh, and he was a good coach in Hoosiers too.