Off Topic But Fun: Favorite Football Movies
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1. Rudy
2. Remember the Titans
3. Brian's Song
Spoiler Alert: One of my college coaches, Tom Gullickson, played Guard on those ND Teams. He HATED Rudy, the man. Hated him. He called him a crybaby, a bitch and a tattletale. I take everything with a grain of salt, and it's come out that there were some embellishments for the silverscreen, but a great football movie nonetheless.
This scene was left on cutting room floor. I can't imagine why, it would have made the movie even better.
1. Rudy
2. Remember the Titans
3. Brian's Song
Spoiler Alert: One of my college coaches, Tom Gullickson, played Guard on those ND Teams. He HATED Rudy, the man. Hated him. He called him a crybaby, a bitch and a tattletale. I take everything with a grain of salt, and it's come out that there were some embellishments for the silverscreen, but a great football movie nonetheless.
This scene was left on cutting room floor. I can't imagine why, it would have made the movie even better.
Damn - I forgot to "Remember the Titans." In fairness, I forget I don't have the right glasses on in the morning when I'm working from home. Too many premature senior moments for me to compete in this thread. Well done AP1!
I welcome the only Defensive Coordinator to earn a Superbowl Ring in New Orleans while understanding Revenge of the Nerds is a sequel. "Come get some!" -
........ " I LOVE YOU BRIAN PICCOLO ". Sniff, sniff .....
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FWIW, Sean Austin (the main actor in Rudy) is in another football movie called Woodlawn. A significant part of this movie is about former Alabama Crimson Tide and Miami Dolphins RB Tony Nathan back when he was in high school and some surprisingly significant changes that program was willing to make. Sean Austin is excellent in this movie!
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Here's another inspirational true story. Some of you might be old enough to remember him. This is must see material... Having said that, WARNING - potential man-card loss in this one...
I welcome the only Defensive Coordinator to earn a Superbowl Ring in New Orleans while understanding Revenge of the Nerds is a sequel. "Come get some!" -
1. Rudy
2. Remember the Titans
3. Brian's Song
Spoiler Alert: One of my college coaches, Tom Gullickson, played Guard on those ND Teams. He HATED Rudy, the man. Hated him. He called him a crybaby, a bitch and a tattletale. I take everything with a grain of salt, and it's come out that there were some embellishments for the silverscreen, but a great football movie nonetheless.
This scene was left on cutting room floor. I can't imagine why, it would have made the movie even better.
Damn - I forgot to "Remember the Titans." In fairness, I forget I don't have the right glasses on in the morning when I'm working from home. Too many premature senior moments for me to compete in this thread. Well done AP1!
Damn - I forgot to "Remember the Titans." In fairness, I forget I don't have the right glasses on in the morning when I'm working from home. Too many premature senior moments for me to compete in this thread. Well done AP1!
When I came up with this thread I looked up a "Best Football Movies" site just to jog my memory.
And then you listed "All The Right Moves", which wasn't on it for some reason but is really good.
Oh yeah, there's The Express, about Ernie Davis.
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1. Rudy
2. Remember the Titans
3. Brian's Song
Spoiler Alert: One of my college coaches, Tom Gullickson, played Guard on those ND Teams. He HATED Rudy, the man. Hated him. He called him a crybaby, a bitch and a tattletale. I take everything with a grain of salt, and it's come out that there were some embellishments for the silverscreen, but a great football movie nonetheless.
This scene was left on cutting room floor. I can't imagine why, it would have made the movie even better.
1. Rudy
2. Remember the Titans
3. Brian's Song
Spoiler Alert: One of my college coaches, Tom Gullickson, played Guard on those ND Teams. He HATED Rudy, the man. Hated him. He called him a crybaby, a bitch and a tattletale. I take everything with a grain of salt, and it's come out that there were some embellishments for the silverscreen, but a great football movie nonetheless.
This scene was left on cutting room floor. I can't imagine why, it would have made the movie even better.
Yeah, that's unfortunate about Rudy, because I've heard things about him too. Many have said he became insufferably full of himself after the movie came out, etc.
Still a great movie though.
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1. Rudy
2. Remember the Titans
3. Brian's Song
Spoiler Alert: One of my college coaches, Tom Gullickson, played Guard on those ND Teams. He HATED Rudy, the man. Hated him. He called him a crybaby, a bitch and a tattletale. I take everything with a grain of salt, and it's come out that there were some embellishments for the silverscreen, but a great football movie nonetheless.
This scene was left on cutting room floor. I can't imagine why, it would have made the movie even better.
Yeah, that's unfortunate about Rudy, because I've heard things about him too. Many have said he became insufferably full of himself after the movie came out, etc.
Still a great movie though.
Yeah, that's unfortunate about Rudy, because I've heard things about him too. Many have said he became insufferably full of himself after the movie came out, etc.
Still a great movie though.
I thought Joe Montanna said it was all bullshit
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Yeah, that's unfortunate about Rudy, because I've heard things about him too. Many have said he became insufferably full of himself after the movie came out, etc.
Still a great movie though.
I thought Joe Montanna said it was all bullshit
I thought Joe Montanna said it was all bullshit
He definitely had some issues with it.
I know they tried to make Dan Devine as somewhat of the bad guy of the story, and that wasn't true. Apparently Devine was a big fan of Rudy's. The scene where a lot of the players hand him their jerseys was incredibly embellished. A few players did ask Devine to play Rudy in their place, though.
Note: The actor who played Head Coach Dan Devine was Chelcie Ross, who also was in 'Major League' and 'Hoosiers'.
One actor in arguably one of the best football, baseball and basketball movies.
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1. Rudy
2. Remember the Titans
3. Brian's Song
Spoiler Alert: One of my college coaches, Tom Gullickson, played Guard on those ND Teams. He HATED Rudy, the man. Hated him. He called him a crybaby, a bitch and a tattletale. I take everything with a grain of salt, and it's come out that there were some embellishments for the silverscreen, but a great football movie nonetheless.
This scene was left on cutting room floor. I can't imagine why, it would have made the movie even better.
Yeah, that's unfortunate about Rudy, because I've heard things about him too. Many have said he became insufferably full of himself after the movie came out, etc.
Still a great movie though.
Yeah, that's unfortunate about Rudy, because I've heard things about him too. Many have said he became insufferably full of himself after the movie came out, etc.
Still a great movie though.
At least we understand why his brother in the movie couldn't stand him until he had to cooperate for the happy ending. Before he was famous, Vince Vaughn was the teammate that got the QB to audible and let him throw a TD pass to give Rudy a chance to play shortly thereafter.
I welcome the only Defensive Coordinator to earn a Superbowl Ring in New Orleans while understanding Revenge of the Nerds is a sequel. "Come get some!" -
Here's another inspirational true story. Some of you might be old enough to remember him. This is must see material... Having said that, WARNING - potential man-card loss in this one...
Here's another inspirational true story. Some of you might be old enough to remember him. This is must see material... Having said that, WARNING - potential man-card loss in this one...
I might have to check this out, even despite my lack of interest in watching "faith-based" movies. I honestly don't remember this story.
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Yeah, that's unfortunate about Rudy, because I've heard things about him too. Many have said he became insufferably full of himself after the movie came out, etc.
Still a great movie though.
At least we understand why his brother in the movie couldn't stand him until he had to cooperate for the happy ending. Before he was famous, Vince Vaughn was the teammate that got the QB to audible and let him throw a TD pass to give Rudy a chance to play shortly thereafter.
At least we understand why his brother in the movie couldn't stand him until he had to cooperate for the happy ending. Before he was famous, Vince Vaughn was the teammate that got the QB to audible and let him throw a TD pass to give Rudy a chance to play shortly thereafter.
Yep!
Before he was playing Dodgeball, he was being a douchebag halfback for Notre Dame. ?
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Hot damn, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention how good 'We Are Marshall' was.
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I'm not even sure this one is worth mentioning but "School Ties" where Branden Fraser is a Jewish kid that's an excellent athlete recruited to play QB for a prep school. This school is full of rich brats that hate themselves a Jewish classmate/teammate. Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris O'Donnell are in this movie as well.
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I'm not even sure this one is worth mentioning but "School Ties" where Branden Fraser is a Jewish kid that's an excellent athlete recruited to play QB for a prep school. This school is full of rich brats that hate themselves a Jewish classmate/teammate. Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris O'Donnell are in this movie as well.
I'm not even sure this one is worth mentioning but "School Ties" where Branden Fraser is a Jewish kid that's an excellent athlete recruited to play QB for a prep school. This school is full of rich brats that hate themselves a Jewish classmate/teammate. Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris O'Donnell are in this movie as well.
Very good movie!
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The Replacements
Nothing beats seeing the redemption of Shane Falco
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The Replacements
Nothing beats seeing the redemption of Shane Falco
The Replacements
Nothing beats seeing the redemption of Shane Falco
And his blonde cheerleader girlfriend wasn't hard to look at!
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Hot damn, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention how good 'We Are Marshall' was.
Hot damn, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention how good 'We Are Marshall' was.
Yeah, it was. There's a lot of good football movies out there.
It was interesting to hear that stuff about Rudy. I also recently learned that things didn't unfold in real life quite like the movie "The Blind Side" made the Tuohy family out to be. This is what I found in Google about it. Oher accused the Tuohys of lying about adopting him when they became his conservators in 2004, which gave them the legal authority to make business deals in his name.Dec 6, 2023
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Hot damn, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention how good 'We Are Marshall' was.
Yeah, it was. There's a lot of good football movies out there.
It was interesting to hear that stuff about Rudy. I also recently learned that things didn't unfold in real life quite like the movie "The Blind Side" made the Tuohy family out to be. This is what I found in Google about it. Oher accused the Tuohys of lying about adopting him when they became his conservators in 2004, which gave them the legal authority to make business deals in his name.Dec 6, 2023
Yeah, it was. There's a lot of good football movies out there.
It was interesting to hear that stuff about Rudy. I also recently learned that things didn't unfold in real life quite like the movie "The Blind Side" made the Tuohy family out to be. This is what I found in Google about it. Oher accused the Tuohys of lying about adopting him when they became his conservators in 2004, which gave them the legal authority to make business deals in his name.Dec 6, 2023
The 'Blind Side' story seems to be quite the convoluted one, huh?
Were the Tuohys opportunistic do-gooders? Perhaps, but they had money before they ever set eyes on Michael Oher. Was Michael Oher ungrateful? Perhaps he felt embarrassed by the book and movie when he got older?
Was it ever found out that the Tuohys stole money from Oher?
Post script: Looked up a few stories concerning the rift between Oher and the Tuohys and man, Michael Lewis should write a 'Blind Side II' follow-up. That would be a must-read.
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Yeah, that's unfortunate about Rudy, because I've heard things about him too. Many have said he became insufferably full of himself after the movie came out, etc.
Still a great movie though.
I thought Joe Montanna said it was all bullshit
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