Sports

The Girlfriend has been bugging me to post, but I don't really have anything to write about. She pretty much covered the holidays on her blog, I don't start work until January 8, and all of my sports teams went into the crapper this past weekend. So......I decided to list my top 10 sports movies of all time.
#10 Mystery, Alaska
A feel good hockey movie about a small town in Alaska where the guys play a weekly game against each other. Eventually, they end up playing a real NHL team. I won't ruin the ending for you. Unfortunately, Russell Crowe stars. I think he is a douche, but he did a decent job in this film.











#9 Eight Men Out
The story of the 1918 Black Sox scandal when the Chicago White Sox threw the world series. Doesn't make most of the top ten lists, but it does mine.















#8 The Bad News Bears

C'mon! Walter Matthau as the cranky "Buttermaker" easily makes this movie a classic. How can you not root for the original misfits. Often copied by such movies as "The Little Giants" and "The Mighty Ducks."












#7 Caddyshack
If you haven't seen this movie, you live under a rock. Full of classic moments and an unforgettable performance by Bill Murray resulting in one of the most famous movie quotes of all time.
"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."
#6 Major League

I know, completely weak. But it's my list. I can't help but watch this movie when it's on TV.


















#5 North Dallas Forty

Loosely based on a Dallas Cowboys team in the 1970s, this movie gives you a look at the money issues players dealt with as well as the things they put their bodies through to play the game. Besides, it has Mac Davis in it. 'Nuff said.












#4 A League of Their Own
"There's no crying in baseball!" Subtract Madonna and Rosie O'Donnel from this movie and it would have ranked higher. Girls playing baseball? Geena Davis makes it believable.
















#3 The Longest Yard
Not that crappy Adam Sandler version that came out a while ago. You have to see the originally with Burt Reynolds. "I think I broke his fuckin' neck!"
















#2 Hoosiers
Small town basketball team makes it to the state championship in basketball crazy Indiana. You root for Gene Hackman the entire time. Another movie that I can't turn off when it comes on.















#2 b Rudy
I know, this will make my list 11 movies long. Live with it. When that little hobbit runs out on the field to the sound of the crowd chanting "Rudy! Rudy!" I get a lump in my throat everytime.















#1 The Natural
It's too long, the story is convoluted, and Redford is a tad stiff, but when Roy Hobbs cranks that homer into the lights and then runs the bases in a cloud of sparks, I cry. I swear. I man enough to admit it. I cry.


Yeah, I left out the Kevin Costner trilogy of "Bull Durham", "Field of Dreams" and "Tin Cup" but they all have one fatal flaw. Kevin Costner. Also, there is no way I'm adding "The Cutting Edge" to my list. Ewww.