AFI's greatest sports movies

[smwhorn]

#1. Raging Bull
#2. Rocky

Jerry Maguire was #10.

Hard to argue with the top 2 IMO.

 

[TheGallopinGoose]

Did the 2006 Rose Bowl DVD make the cut?

 

[Born_a_Longhorn]

Pretty sure AFI only considered works of fiction.

Suprisingly, Junction Boys didn't make the cut.

 

[LHB_SOB]

List sucks without The Bad News Bears. Did it have Bad News Bears?

 

[rickysrun]

I would've given the nod to Necessary Roughness.

 

[madscientist]

fighting for last place are wildcats and quarterback princess.

and i don't really consider jerry maguire a sports movie. its a romance where one of the people is a sports agent.

 

[MAROON]

- is The Natural not a sports movie?

 

[Miss Ellie]

What about Slapshot?

 

[TornACL]

Hot to Trot

 

[THEU]

Slapshot, Hoosiers, Bull Durham, The Natural.... all should have been on there.

Jerry MacGuire was a horrid movie, and shouldn't be on the top 10 of anything.

 

[Steel Shank]

Tom, you talking about The Kansas City Bomber?

 

[Steel Shank]

 

[smwhorn]

Hoosiers and Bull Durham were on the list. Caddyshack was on the list.

The Natural was not, nor was Rollerball.

 

[THEU]

So AFI thinks that Jerry MacGuire is a better sports movie than The Natural?

I submit this to you as what is really wrong with this country.

 

[JonathanMardukas]

What about 61* and Field of Dreams? Rudy?

 

[Handler XIII]

That list sucks

 

[Beau Vine]

Anybody who thinks Jerry Maguire is a sports movie was severely duped.

Jerry Maguire is a chick movie. It's a chick movie disguised as a sports movie.

 

[pecos blingsly]

i think Jerry McGuire is on there simply because the AFI felt pressure to include a movie from the last decade or so.

 

[Texas Sandwich]

I can't believe that "Chariots of Fire" wasn't in that top ten list.

 

[Big Ess Fro]

Link

 

[2feathers]

Mel Gibson was a runner in "Gallipoli"; is that a sports movie?

 

[killerfrog17]

Wait, you telling me that frickin' The Natural isn't on this list? Invalid list.
And even though it's Notre Dame, I really liked Rudy.