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June 29, 2004

My List-Lovin' Ways

Top Five Sports Movies? (And I'm only cheating a little bit.)

For Love of the Game
Chariots of Fire
Field of Dreams
(tie)Hoosiers/Rudy
Seabuiscuit

Honorable mention goes to Army of Darkness for (sort of) prominently featuring a sporting goods section. That has to count for something.

Thanks for leading the way...

Posted by zombyboy at June 29, 2004 11:13 PM | TrackBack

Comments

If this keeps up, Z, I am really going to doubt your choice in movies.

What about Caddshack? It may not be a touching sports movie with a deeper meaning, but it's based around golf (let's not debate on whether or not golf is a sport) and it's a great flick!

Ski School. Let's see if that one flies.

I will toss you some kudos for nominating Army of Darkness, however.

Posted by: Corey at June 29, 2004 11:40 PM

Caddyshack, Major League, and The Natural could all be on the list on any given day of the week.

That's why I prefer top 10 lists--top 5 is just too damned hard.

Of course, Caddyshack also earns bonus points for 'tuitous nudity (one of my favorite things about movies of the '80s).

Posted by: zombyboy at June 29, 2004 11:44 PM

If but for that earworm-inducing theme song, #2 deserves to be buried into obscurity.

Posted by: OF Jay at June 30, 2004 01:16 AM

Crazy man.

Posted by: zombyboy at June 30, 2004 07:37 AM

Incidentally, I pulled out the Seabiscuit DVD to re-watch it Monday, and we watched Field of Dreams (for the millionth time) last week. :) I must've known some sports movie blogfodder was about to happen. ;)

Posted by: Jo at June 30, 2004 08:23 AM

Ski school offers plenty of 'tuitous nudity, too - of the former-playmate variety.

Posted by: Jerry (StumpJumper) at June 30, 2004 08:31 AM

For some reason, I wasn't able to comment on anyone's blog....so here we go again:

The family and I watched Rudy for the first time this year and we loved it!

I also think The Rookie was pretty good fare.

Is that for real? SJ's name is Jerry? If so- cool! A first, real name; a nice one, too :)

Posted by: Rae at June 30, 2004 09:47 AM

I absolutely loved Seabiscuit, Jo. Thought it was brilliant--I knew you had good taste in sports movies from the first time you commented here.

Rudy was great--heart warming in all the right ways. Good stuff.

Posted by: zombyboy at June 30, 2004 09:55 AM

Hello?

Slap Shot? Bull Durham?

Hello!?!

Posted by: Craig at June 30, 2004 10:46 AM

Slap Shot was close for me. Bull Durham wasn't.

Heheh. Slap Shot was funny. I need to rent that movie some time soon.

Posted by: zombyboy at June 30, 2004 11:18 AM

Rae: Z stared the whole alias-thing back when he started the blog. Not knowing where it would go (and knowing his employer) I agreed that it was a good thing. Much has happened since then and so I recently decided to start using my first name. No big reasons, it just seems more natural.

Craig: Bull Durham was ok, but we all deserve to be chastized for forgetting Slap Shot. Damn, that's on funny freakin' movie!

Posted by: Jerry at June 30, 2004 12:18 PM

Rollerball!

Posted by: McGehee at June 30, 2004 12:42 PM

Why didn't I think of this before? It may be new, but Dodgeball was a hell of a movie! It may be silly, but it has a good message-you can be a loser and still triumph over the pretty people(it gives me hope!)

Posted by: Corey at June 30, 2004 04:14 PM

Found this link while searching Google, thanks

Posted by: playmate at August 4, 2004 01:07 AM