re: best sport movie ever

Kazaam

Is MASH a football movie?

We are Marshall

Hoosiers
Bull Durham
Breaking Away
Slapshot
Rush
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Kingpin
Eight Men Out
Brian's Song
Raging Bull

I don't see how anyone liked the replacements. It was terrible.

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There's no doubt about that. Being an NBA ref has no bearing on the movie except that it keeps Micky on the road and away from home...but he could as well have been a traveling salesman.

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But the NBA scenes were fantastic. And remember, the entire premise of the film was that it was a story being told by a sportswriter, who begins by describing Mickey not just as any NBA ref, but the best in the business.

And let's face it, the highlight of the movie is when he tosses Kareem.

Baseketball has the greatest opening monologue/scene:

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There was a time in America when contests of athletic prowess were a metaphor for the nobility of man. Historic moments forged by the love of the game celebrated the human potential to achieve excellence.

But as time passed, and the country neared the millennium, something went awry.

The ideal of sportsmanship began to take a back seat to excessive celebration. The athletes caring less about executing the play than planning the vulgar grandstanding that inevitably followed even the most pedestrian of accomplishments. The games themselves became subordinate to the quest for money. Stadiums and arenas became nothing more than giant billboards to promote commercial products. Players sold their services to the highest bidder, much like the hired guns of the Old West.


Football Player: And after playing for New England, San Diego, Houston, St. Louis, a year for the Toronto Argonauts, plus one season as a greeter at the Desert Inn, I'm happy to finally play here in the fine city of Miami.
Official: Minnesota. [sits down]
Townsell:Whatever. Shiiit.



Soon it was commonplace for entire teams to change cities in search of greater profits. The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles, where there are no lakes. The Oilers moved to Tennessee, where there is no oil. The Jazz moved to Salt Lake City, where they don't allow music. The Oakland Raiders moved to L.A. and then back to Oakland. No one in Los Angeles seemed to notice. The search for greener pastures went on unabated. Continued expansion diluted the talent pool, forcing owners to recruit heavily from prisons, mental institutions, and Texas. Fist-fighting and brawling permeated every sport, overshadowing any evidence of competition.

As the problems mounted, the fans became less and less interested. To reverse the trend, major sports started interleague play. When that novelty wore off, they tried intersports play. But no matter how far the major sports went, it wasn't enough to bring the fans back. The spirit of athletic competition, indeed, was not dead. Its sead merely lay dormant in the dreams of the young.

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And the best thing Bob Costas has ever said:

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And joining us in the booth this evening, big fan of BASEketball, Tony Nocholino, who plays, as you know, Latino cut-up "Scooter" on the new hit comedy series "What's the Difference?" airing between "Recycled Junk" starring Lisa Campbell and "Same Old Crap" featuring teen heartthrob Mark Swenson, all part of the great fall lineup on our network's "Who gives a rat's arse?" Thursdays.

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So hard to rank these, there's dozens. No particular order, my favorites are

Rocky
Remember the Titans
Hoosiers
Miracle
Rudy
Major League