Top 50 Football Movies.......

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Best Football Movies

This list of best football movies is generated by using a formula that combines the opinions of our users and the opinions of other reliable media sources. Many how argued over the top football movies but we take pride in carefully monitoring user ratings and combining them with the ratings of movie critics. We feel confident that this is a reliable source for best football movies.
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1. Remember the Titans (2000) - 9.02
2. Friday Night Lights (2004) - 8.97
3. Brian's Song (1971) - 8.96
4. We Are Marshall (2006) - 8.93
5. Rudy (1993) - 8.89
6. Replacements, The (2000) - 8.77
7. Brian's Song (2002) - 8.73
8. Any Given Sunday (1999) - 8.69
9. Radio (2003) - 8.67
10. Express, The (2008) - 8.67
11. Invincible (2006) - 8.66
12. Program, The (1993) - 8.64
13. Jerry Maguire (1996) - 8.55
14. Necessary Roughness (1991) - 8.48
15. Gridiron Gang (2006) - 8.48
16. Everybody's All-American (1988) - 8.42
17. Junction Boys, The (2002) - 8.34
18. Fighting Back (1980) - 8.31
19. Quarterback Princess (1983) - 8.30
20. Knute Rockne All American (1940) - 8.21
21. Facing the Giants (2006) - 8.13
22. Longest Yard, The (2005) - 8.09
23. Waterboy (1998) - 8.05
24. Varsity Blues (1999) - 8.02
25. Little Giants (1995) - 7.97
26. Game Plan, The (2007) - 7.91
27. Hometown Legend (2002) - 7.87
28. North Dallas Forty (1979) - 7.80
29. Longest Yard, The (1974) - 7.75
30. Leatherheads (2007) - 7.66
31. Two For The Money (2005) - 7.62
32. Horse Feathers (1932) - 7.54
33. Last Boy Scout, The (1991) - 7.50
34. Fumbleheads (1999) - 7.40
35. All The Right Moves (1983) - 7.37
36. Paper Lion (1968) - 7.35
37. Second String, The (2002) - 7.34
38. Possums (1998) - 7.28
39. Code Breakers (2005) - 7.17
40. Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking… (1998) - 7.07
41. Wildcats (1986) - 7.04
42. Best of Times, The (1986) - 6.95
43. Heaven Can Wait (1978) - 6.74
44. Windrunner (1995) - 6.73
45. Lucas (1986) - 6.61
46. Full Ride (2001) - 6.28
47. Halfback of Notre Dame (1996) - 6.27
48. They Call Me Sirr (2001) - 6.24
49. Comebacks, The (2007) - 6.14
50. Angels In The Endzone (1997) - 5.74
51. Air Bud: Golden Receiver (1998) - 5.29
52. Jim Thorpe: All-American (1951) - 5.07
53. Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997) - 4.71
54. Semi-Tough (1977) - 4.34
55. Reggie's Prayer (1996) - 2.64

 

[maxdemo]

Most of these I have never heard of

 

[wilheim]

Worth seeing...

1. Radio (2003) - 8.67 Based on a true story (like many othes). I enjoyed this movie very much.

Cuba Gooding Jr. played the part of James "Radio" Kennedy a mentally disabled local man who was adopted by Anderson SC's T.L. Hanna High School football team as a mascot/equipment manager. Originally discovered by coach Harold Jones (played by Ed Harris) Radio became very popular in the town of Anderson which led to a series of Anderson teams and coaches adopting James in real life and giving meaning to his life.


An excellent family movie made better by it's fine cast based on a Sports Illustrated Story written by Gary Smith which was an exerpt from his book about Radio and the people of Anderson called "Beyond The Game".

Offical Website of "Radio"..



wil.

 

[M.Saracen]

lots of great movies near the top.

varsity blues and two for the money should have been higher though.

 

[JohnnyMac]

North Dallas Forty is ridiculously underrated on that list.

 

[hosnatcher]

North Dallas Forty is ridiculously underrated on that list.

Naw shit. I think North Dallas Forty is the best football movie of all times.

The Comebacks is a fuckin riot. Bump that shit in the top 10.

 

[wilheim]

If you like North Dallas Forty the flick (now dated) read North Dallas Forty the book (still relevent) by ex Cowboy and Michigan St tight end Pete Gent.

 

[RobFunk]

The program. I remember seeing this in the theater. There is a scene when the kids lay in the middle of the middle of the street reading a Sports Illustrated article about themselves while traffic just whizzes past them. I heard this scene was cut from home release because kids actually tried laying in the middle of the road in traffic after seeing the movie.

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Brian's Song and North Dallas Fourty are absolutely 1 and 1A...

 

[bellyputter]

Brian's Song and North Dallas Fourty are absolutely 1 and 1A...

I completely agree! VIEJO, I was in Vegas the week after the bash. It was probably a good thing, the way you roll. <<

 

[hosnatcher]

Brian's Song and North Dallas Fourty are absolutely 1 and 1A...

Brian's Song is a good made for TV movie. It makes me cry every time but that Lando Calrissian can't act for shit.

 

[cocktailsnlongshots+]

'wildcats' and 'the best of times' are hysterical....loved reno hightower!!!!

 

[cutacrossshorty]

The list should include "The Fortune Cookie" with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Jack Lemmon is a cameraman who gets nailed in an out of bounds hit during an NFL game. His lawyer brother inlaw (Matthau) tries to milk the accident for insurance money.

The film was directed by Billy Wilder and made 2 years before The Odd Couple.

 

[paftraft]

"Crazylegs" embellishing the career of Elroy Hirsch at Wisconsin & the Rams was a good one. Way back in the 50's