Your top 5 scenes in sports movies
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Varsity Blues
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dn3DlmcrLeY
The Sandlot
"My life is over"
Hoosiers
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O4Lhw4M-GTg
Rudy
Crying when he reads the letter that he is accepted into Notre Dame
Friday Night Lights
Locker room speech during halftime at state by Billy Bob Thornton
Varsity Blues
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dn3DlmcrLeY
The Sandlot
"My life is over"
Hoosiers
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O4Lhw4M-GTg
Rudy
Crying when he reads the letter that he is accepted into Notre Dame
Friday Night Lights
Locker room speech during halftime at state by Billy Bob Thornton
Alpine Valley 2000
Summerfest 2006
"Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
Summerfest 2006
"Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
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I think of 4 more when the lump goes out of my throat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XS2UtAlmX4
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj2pXikeDRg
ever read the book?
Summerfest 2006
"Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
2.Major League
3.Young Blood
4.Slap Shot
5.The Ultimate Gretzky(ok it's only a dvd)
I'm really slow today oop's
Toronto 2011 night 2
Hamilton 2011
London 2013
nope
ok, you're from canada ... I'll actually give you the Gretzky dvd ... but youngblood? aside from the chick Rob Lowe boiked ... what about that movie was good?
Slap Shot on the other hand ... needs it's own thread.
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
Completely different ending.......makes alot more sense than the movie
Summerfest 2006
"Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
Rocky-adrian, adrian
Rudy-this story always gets to me
The pride of the yankees-today is the greatest day of my life
Knute rockney story-just win one for the gipper
Hoosiers-hopper can act too!
Raging Bull-Still deniro's best performance
and Ill just add caddyshack, major league and bull durham for laughs
absolutely.
Where Christian Slater does a grab and hits Walt Disney in the face
the rest don't matter
rudy is the lamest fucking movie of all time. liam gallagher would kick your wanker arse!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i_D6oQO6b8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_w4MV_LwMw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MVLe-yqO3E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9kLQfuBs7c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zM6Na3cZz8
Enjoy
2004 Boston I
2006 Boston I
2008 Bonnaroo, Hartford, Mansfield I
2010 Hartford
2013 Worcester I, Worcester II, Hartford
2016 Bonnaroo, Fenway I, Fenway II
2018 Fenway I, Fenway II
2021 Sea.Hear.Now
2022 Camden
2024 MSG I, Fenway I, Fenway II
" Take over Monty, Im signing out "
Philly- 2005, 2013, 2016, 2024
Camden 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2022, 2023
Philly Spectrum 2009 x4 - We closed that MFER Down Proper
Baltimore- 2024
DC- 2006, 2008
New York- 2008, 2010
Boston - Fenway 2016 (night 2) , 2024 (night1)
East Rutherford, New Jersey- 2006
Chicago - Lollapalooza 2007
Seattle- Gorge 2005
EV Solo- DC x2, Baltimore x2 , Newark NJ x2, Tower Theater x2
- Given To Fly
Liam also wrote Little James and multiple other lame songs. He would be left in a pool of blood if he ever tried to kick my ass.
Summerfest 2006
"Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdam7qQMkzs
I'm no dude! Dudette!
Number 1 for me too.
Number 2 'Bull Durham' Out the back of the Bar
"From what I hear you could'nt hit water if you fell out of a fucking boat"
I'll have a think about the rest now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lVCBLfwA5A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGkhJ6720ts&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTguTnoE680&feature=related
here is another not the greatest but definitely funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bwVgfhilM8
and another
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_moQndAzwCI
Most of the scenes in Major League....
And this scene from Slapshot (plus many others):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aam5BONTFio
"She's a lesbian... a lesbian.... a lesbian"
I really like the scene in "We Are Marshall" when the West Virginia players come in with the Marshall logo on their helmets. I don't know if that really happened, but it made me not hate Bobby Bowden so much.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rFx6OFooCs
SHOW COUNT: (157) 1990's=3, 2000's=53, 2010/20's=97, US=116, CAN=15, Europe=20 ,New Zealand=2, Australia=2
Mexico=1, Colombia=1
Upcoming: Ohana x2 Aucklandx2, Gold Coast, Melbournex2
ah yes... when pools all over LA were being drained for the greater good.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
at least he wrote the songs and performs. rudy didn't do anything but earn the pity of real athletes.
And sack Georgia Tech's qb on the last play of the game.
- 8/28/98
- 9/2/00
- 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
- 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
- 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
- 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
- 8/2/07, 8/5/07
- 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
- 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
- 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
- 9/11/11, 9/12/11
- 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
yee-flippin-ha... after it was already won.
i was forced to watch that movie about 400 times in high school and now i hate notre dame.
Thats about the only good scene is what was probably the worst sports movie ever made.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
awesome scene and yes i tear up whenever i see this scene.
1) - the scene above in Field of Dreams
2) - Miracle - pre-game speech by Herb Brooks
3) -White Men Can't Jump - "if i miss this shot I'll still be a chump, but if you miss, you've been beaten not once, but twice, by a slow white fucking geek"
4) - Hoosiers - Jimmy Chitwood "I'll make it" and "let's win this one for all the little schools that never got the chance"
5) - Varsity Blues - whipped cream bikini
4/26/03 Pittsburgh 5/3/03 State College 7/12/03 Hershey 10/1/04 Reading 9/28/05 Pittsburgh 5/20/06 Cleveland 6/23/06 Pittsburgh 6/22/08 DC
friends don't let friends listen to good charlotte
I actually just read this today about the masterpiece...
Thursday, November 29, 2007
My ode to the best sports movie ever made
By Terry Frei
Special to ESPN.com
What's the deal here?
Why wasn't the "Slap Shot" anniversary more widely commemorated?
There should have been a deluxe 30th anniversary DVD.
"They brought their $#&$#&! toys with them!"
No, make that a multiple-DVD set, complete with interviews with the cast, and an off-the-cuff commentary track from screenwriter Nancy Dowd and star Paul Newman. (Alas, director George Roy Hill died in 2002.)
Throw in a travelogue of Johnstown, Pa., the real-life Charlestown, with archival footage of both the old Johnstown Jets and the current Johnstown Chiefs of the ECHL.
Perhaps have one of the TV cinema critics (the snobbier, the better) proclaim it superior to Hill's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting," but also to "Casablanca," "Gone With The Wind," and "The English Patient." Build a case for the obvious -- it is the best sports movie ever, certainly better than the 1976 Oscar winner, "Rocky," and 2004 best picture, "Million Dollar Baby."
"Dave's a killer!"
"Dave's a mess."
At symposiums or in a master's thesis, use "Slap Shot" as the working example of how even those who detest gratuitous obscenity have to admit a great movie becomes terrible when it's cleaned up for broadcast television, with the "Gee, whiz" voice-overs for every "$#&$#&!"
The Ogie Ogilthorpe jerseys at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto should have been taken off the wall in back and placed in the featured display rack just inside the door of the gift shop.
"You stupid when you do that, some English pig with no brains."
The NHL could have mandated that every team book the still-touring Hanson Brothers -- Jeff Carlson, Steve Carlson and David Hanson -- for appearances at games, perhaps the 17th meeting of the season between each divisional rival in each building to relieve the tedium.
Hold a public burning of the sequel's master print, or whatever the master of a straight-to-DVD monstrosity is called nowadays.
Thirty years ago, when I was a rookie NHL beat writer, I went to see the movie. Despite its credentials, it was doing tepid business, and I was among an audience of about 10. We all laughed.
"Sergeant, you will never meet a greater champion of pure hockey than me. Sergeant, I knew Eddie Shore!"
One of my favorite scenes is when Dickie Dunn, the Charlestown sportswriter, tries to look modest as Chiefs player-coach Reg Dunlop (Newman) reads his prose aloud in the bar.
(I hesitate to even put those identifiers in here, because I know every hockey fan worth his or her salt doesn't need them. And those fans also can stumble across a repeat showing on uncensored cable and recite the lines as they come from the actors' mouths, as if this is a midnight showing of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the avant-garde cinema house downtown.)
Dunlop reads: "To see the three Chiefs make a scoring rush, the bright colors of their jerseys flashing against the milky ice, was to see a work of art in motion." Then he adds: "Now, that's good writin' Dickie."
"Aw," Dickie responds, ''I was just trying to capture the spirit of the thing, Reg.''
"Oh, you did," Reg says.
I have been trying to capture the spirit of the thing ever since.
"Got stinkin' $#&$#& on the bus. Louise left me, and that son of a $#&$#& over there keeps playin' me when he knows I'm $#&$#&."
I had read Dowd was the sister of Ned Dowd, who played Ogilthorpe, who was modeled after, among others, WHA goon Bill Goldthorpe. She had her brother carry around a tape recorder during his playing days in the minor leagues, and much of the movie came right out of what really happened in Johnstown and other stops on the circuit.
Perhaps five writers at every showing of "Rocky" walked out thinking if Sylvester Stallone could do it, so could they, and went straight to Waldenbooks -- the big bookstore chain then -- to buy a book on screenwriting, or enrolled in USC film school.
"Slap Shot" did that for me. Within a few days, I put a stack of new records on the automatic turntable, including Kansas' classic "Leftoverture," and was fooling around with the opening scenes of a screenplay.
(It made the rounds, but never got made.)
"I can't name names, but let's just say that there's a senior citizens community in a Southern state that's in the market for a hockey team."
Seriously, it's a great movie, great on several levels, great as a comedy and a satire, both laugh-out-loud funny and smile-wryly funny. The first time you saw it, you laughed the second the line came out of the character's mouth, and then several hours later after you thought about it.
And years later, it's still a classic.
I'm torn about the concept of a remake. Though it did well, in part because of relentless prerelease promotion and savvy selection of media types for cameo roles, "The Longest Yard" remake was a joke. There are more "Poseidons" -- disasters in more than genre -- than there are "Oceans 11s."
But think of the possibilities.
• Jose Theodore as Denis Lemieux.
• Sean Avery as any of the lunkheads and any of his 27 actress ex-girlfriends as Francine and/or Lily.
• Ernie Sabella as Joe McGrath.
• Brothers Eric, Marc and Jordan Staal as the Hansons -- though it would take some acting.
• Chris Chelios as Tim McCracken.
• George Parros as Ned Braden. (He has the Ivy League background, if a different game.)
• Gary Thorne (although he does not wear a toupee) as Jim Carr.
• Con Madigan is too old to reprise his role as Mad Dog Madison, but who has the guts to tell him?
• Pierre LeBrun as Yvon Lebrun.
• Absolutely, Barry Melrose as Reg Dunlop.
And I'm already practicing my lines, including:
"Now, let me get this straight. A retirement community has bought the Chiefs?"
Terry Frei is a regular contributor to ESPN.com. He is the author of "Third Down and a War to Go" and the upcoming "'77."
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/columns/story?columnist=frei_terry&id=3133360
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln