Best Sports Movies by Sport

[Admiral Yi]

Baseball: Mr. Baseball

Basketball: Hoosiers.  The best overall sports movie ever.  Amen.

American Football: they're all kind of weak.  Anyone who says Any Given Sunday deserves a punch in the package.

Soccer: another weak field.  Maybe that one in the POW camp with Pele?  I haven't seen it.

Track and Field: Chariots of Fire.

Other sports with a decent movie?

[Ed Anger]

Soccer: another weak field.  Maybe that one in the POW camp with Pele?  I haven't seen it.

And Stallone? Victory. A staple of HBO in the late 80's in the late morning.

[Tonitrus]

I'd put up "Rudy" as a contender for American Football.

And the Canucks here will rail at you for not including Hockey.

[Admiral Yi]

Oh yeah, for wrestling there's Vision Quest.  Visionquest?  VisionQuest?

[Admiral Yi]

Boxing: Raging Bull.  Only serious competition for Hoosiers.

[Ed Anger]

I'd put up "Rudy" as a contender for American Football.

And the Canucks here will rail at you for not including Hockey.

Slapshot. I'm sure they got some faggy film about beating a russian team, but the Hanson brothers are unbeatable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i_D6oQO6b8

[Tonitrus]

I'd put up "Rudy" as a contender for American Football.

Just remembered "The Best of Times" and am now more unsure. 

[Admiral Yi]

Another vote for Slapshot.

[Tonitrus]

I'd put up "Rudy" as a contender for American Football.

Just remembered "The Best of Times" and am now more unsure. 

And just to make it political, "Knute Rockne, All American". 

[Sheilbh]

I like The Damned United a lot, but it's not really about football. 

Zidane: A Twentieth Century Portrait is extraordinary but it's a documentary (I suppose) so doesn't count.

[11B4V]

Oh yeah, for wrestling there's Vision Quest.  Visionquest?  VisionQuest?

Are you fucking kidding?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125849/

[Admiral Yi]

Are you fucking kidding?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125849/

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but some people claim that pro wrestling is not 100% authentic. 

[CountDeMoney]

Oh yeah, for wrestling there's Vision Quest.  Visionquest?  VisionQuest?

Are you fucking kidding?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125849/

Wrong wrestling, Enis.

[11B4V]

Are you fucking kidding?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125849/

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but some people claim that pro wrestling is not 100% authentic. 

Ya think. You just stated wrestling, didnt you.

[CountDeMoney]

Soccer: another weak field.  Maybe that one in the POW camp with Pele?  I haven't seen it.

And Stallone? Victory. A staple of HBO in the late 80's in the late morning.

Oh yeah, more than once staying home with the flu. Victory on at 10am?  It's a date!

That was actually a pretty cool movie.  Good soundtrack, too.