With the Superbowl looming, I decided to keep the sports theme going for top five fridays. Here are my top five sports movies:
Caddyshack: The quotes. The characters. The storyline. It's a true classic! Chevy Chase and Bill Murrary are great but Rodney Dangerfield steals the movie. Recently I caught Caddyshack during the Christmas Blizzard of 2006 and I couldn't stop laughing.
Rudy: Before he was a hobbit, Sean Astin played an obscure practice player named Dan "Rudy" Ruettiger for Notre Dame in the 70's. When DVD's came out, it was one of the first movies I had to have (Office Space was the other). It's also the movie where Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn got their start.
Remember The Titans: Football cures the racial tension. It's a Disney movie so you knew that it was going to have a happy ending despite one of the players becoming paralyzed.
Any Given Sunday: Al Pacino and Jamie Foxx play a old school coach and an over-confident quarterback respectively. Funny how life imitates art as this story was played out recently in the NFL with Bill Parcells and Tony Romo of the Dallas Cowboys.
Happy Gilmore: Adam Sandler scores big in this golf inspired movie. To save his mother's house, Happy Gilmore enters a golf tournament and beats the top pro, Shooter McGavin.
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What about Slap Shot? Can deny the comedy in that one.
I mean’t “can’t deny” of course, sorry about that. I do give props to Shooter McGavin, though, best character in Happy Gilmore.
D’oh I can’t believe I forgot Slap Shot! The Hanson brothers rule!