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Which actor was the most believable playing an athlete?

Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:03 pm
Posted by upgrade
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:03 pm
I’ll go Kevin Costner For Love of the Game and Bull Durham

Charlie Sheen for Major League


Pro athletes turned actor do not count. Such as Shaq in Blue Chips
Posted by Tigear
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:06 pm to
Woody Harrelson White Men Can't Jump

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Posted by partywiththelombardi
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:07 pm to
Kevin Costner I believe could be a headcase alcoholic golfer that doesnt take good advice from his caddie
Posted by Brosef Stalin
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:07 pm to
The Rock in Pain and Gain if you consider weightlifters to be athletes. LL Cool J in Any Given Sunday was good. Basically everyone who played a boxer in the Rocky movies, including Creed, were all good.
Posted by MorbidTheClown
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:09 pm to
Posted by Clyde
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:09 pm to
Billy Bob in Varsity Blues
Posted by Master of Sinanju
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:10 pm to
Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed.
Posted by upgrade
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:14 pm to
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Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed.


Ah, I hadn’t thought about boxing. Good one.
Posted by JetsetNuggs
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:15 pm to
Mark Wahlberg in Invincible is up there

Posted by Bham4Tide
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:18 pm to
Keanu Reeves wasn’t bad in The Replacements. Very underrated comedy in my opinion.

Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry McGuire - but you really never saw him on the field that much.

This post was edited on 2/20/20 at 4:22 pm
Posted by Rep520
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:20 pm to
Derek Luke as Boobie Miles was one of my favorites.

The Rocky movies are solid choices.
Posted by Thracken13
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:27 pm to
Scott Bakula and the guy that played Flat Top in Necessary Roughness
Posted by Tiger Voodoo
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:32 pm to




Posted by Dire Wolf
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:33 pm to
Willie Mays Hayes


This guy from the program
This post was edited on 2/20/20 at 4:34 pm
Posted by ItzMe1972
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:41 pm to
Adam Sandler - Waterboy

With Runner Up going to

Chevy Chase in Caddy Shack
Posted by RB10
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:43 pm to
Tim Riggins
Posted by Tiger Voodoo
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:44 pm to
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This guy from the program



Yeah Alvin Mack was a legit LB, precursor to Ray Lewis.


He also played Featherstone in Necessary Roughness, this is his IMDB photo




As for The Program, I always thought the injury scene was kind of weak. He jumps over the pulling guard and it comes down with a mangled leg. Like the guys helmet fricked his leg up like that??

Probably my favorite sports movie ever, but that scene needed some editing.
This post was edited on 2/20/20 at 4:45 pm
Posted by blueridgeTiger
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:48 pm to
Ronald Reagan in Knute Rockne All American
Posted by Arksulli
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 4:52 pm to
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The Rock in Pain and Gain if you consider weightlifters to be athletes


I would say weightlifters count as athletes. Dwayane "The Rock" Johnson did play some pro football. He was a highly touted recruit for Miami but he had the misfortune to be at the school when they had one of the greatest D-lines ever so he almost never got to see the field. He wound up in the CFL but hated it so much up there his dad broke him into the pro wrestling business.

The people who played the boxers in the Rocky movies were tremendous. Dolph Lundgren won two European titles in karate (along with getting a full scholarship to MIT to get his doctorate in Chemical Engineering) so that probably came pretty easy to him.
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 5:01 pm to
Costner has acquitted himself well in every movie he’s done.

Redford looked like a ball player in The Natural.
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