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Name your favorite 'football' movies of all time.

1) "Remember the Titans"
2) "North Dallas Forty"
3) "The Longest Yard"
4) "Rudy"
5) "M*A*S*H" (one great football scene but funny as hell!)

1) Friday Night Lights (hands down winner)
2) Rudy
3) Go Tigers! (documentry ala Hoop Dreams)
4) Remember the Titans
5) Longest Yard

Don't forget that classic film co-starring Dooby's favorite alum, the Waterboy.

i have to admit that the best sports movies are in baseball; however, here is my list of the ones i've enjoyed:

The Iron Major (1943)… Pat O'Brien, Ruth Warwick, Robert Ryan, Leon Ames, Russell Wade, Bruce Edwards. Biography of football coach and WWI hero Frank Cavanaugh. There is real newsreel footage of actual games included however.

Knute Rockne, All American (1940)… Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan, Gale Page, Donald Crisp, Albert Basserman, John Qualen. Emotional biography of the great Notre Dame Coach with Reagan as the ill-fated George Gipp – the Gipper. It starts with his family's arrival from Norway in 1895 and follows him through the invention of the forward pass to the building of the great Notre Dame dynasty. Interspersed with actual game footage. Famous coaches Howard Jones, Glenn 'Pop' Warner, Amos Alonzo Stagg and Bill Spaulding have cameos. George Reeves (TV’s Superman) appears as one of the star players.

The Spirit of West Point (1947)… Felix ‘Doc’ Blanchard, Glenn Davis, Tom Harmon, Robert Shayne, Anne Nagel, Alan Hale Jr. Army football legends Blanchard and Davis play themselves in the West Point football story.

Good News (1947)… June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Mel Torme, Patricia Marshall, Joan McCracken. Decent musical set on the fictitious Tait University campus in the 1920s. Songs include Varsity Drag and The French Lesson.

Big Game (1936) by Francis Wallace (a novel) was first published as a serial entitled "Odds Against Honor" in Collier's magazine in 1935. The idea for the riot scene came from an actual riot at a New York University-Fordham University football game. RKO bought 1000 feet of the 1935 Rose Bowl game footage for use in the film. (more)

Phillip Huston .... Clark Jenkins (as Philip Huston)
James Gleason .... George Scott
June Travis .... Margaret Anthony
Bruce Cabot .... Cal Calhoun
Andy Devine .... Pop Andrews
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams .... Peter 'Pete' Jenkins (as Guinn Williams)
John Arledge .... Spike Adams
C. Henry Gordon .... Brad Anthony
Jay Berwanger .... Himself - University of Chicago All-American
William Shakespeare .... Himself - Notre Dame All-American
Robert 'Bobby' Wilson .... Himself - Southern Methodist All-American
James 'Monk' Moscrip .... Himself - Stanford All-American
Irwin 'King Kong' Klein .... Himself - New York University All-American
Gomer Jones .... Himself - Ohio State All-American
Robert 'Bones' Hamilton .... Himself - Stanford All-Americ

N&C: Great choices!

* Rudy

* Brian's Song - I know this is a touchy-feely kind of movie, but it also focuses on competition, perseverance, and friendship.

I hated Rudy, maybe because I have met Rudy a few times, what a "great guy".....Brians Song...North Dallas Forty...Radio...

The Replacements. I know Keneau Reeves has the acting range of a Daisy air rifle but that was a good movie. We could use a couple of Danny Batemans ourselves. It also has the best cheerleading scene in any movie.

Since I went to HS in Alexandria, Virginia during the year the Titans won the state championship (although, I was not at TC Williams), the movie was pretty good, but since I lived here, I knew more of the facts and that distracted me from the movie. "The Replacements" was good fun. North Dallas Forty was good fun as well. I did not like The Program nor did I like On Any Sunday.