On the aisle with TST

by Ryan Van Bibber on Jun 18, 2009 7:15 AM CDT in Preseason

Beset with insomnia, I started rifling through the DVDs. I opted for "The Longest Yard," the 1974 classic with Burt Reynolds, hungry for some football before we get into the long dry spell of the offseason. Classic.

Unfortunately, the old ADHD was riding high that night too, so I jumped on the internet (source of ADHD?) and started looking for a good list of football movies.

And this is what I found...Mostly, it's a way for Spike TV to pimp the Michael Irvin show and some of the flicks they run to fill air space. Anyway, I thought "to hell with this." I can get a better list from my peeps at TST. So I submit the question to you: what's your favorite football movie(s)?

Bonus points if you can relate the plot to the Rams. Also, we'll carry this discussion over on our twitter feed, because Twitter was all about the banality of life before it was about democratic revolutions in despotic nations.

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Favorite football movie

has to be Rudy. It’s cheesy, slow and entirely predictable from the first scene, but I love the chthotic nature of lower middle class midwest in the ’70’s. It’s great minimal design. As for how it relates to the Rams…uh…midwest? I dunno.
Second favorite is Wildcats with Goldie Hawn & Snipes/Harrelson. It’s funny because it tries to be one of those inspiring comedies of the ’80’s and fails at inspiring. Really, who does Goldie Hawn inspire?

Your uncle molests collies.

by 3k on Jun 18, 2009 7:38 AM CDT reply actions

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Turf Show Times

by Ryan Van Bibber on Jun 18, 2009 8:49 AM CDT up reply actions

I would have to say

that my favorite is probably Necessary Roughness. It’s a fun comedy and the cameos by the old football players was awesome. “Coach, I don’t feel so good. I think I swallowed a finger.” LOL

How it relates to the Rams? Well, the team is not doing very well at all and busts their asses to win at least 1 game to prove that they can win. Kinda like the Rams. I dunno, that’s the closest I got.

"Why don't you put that in a memo and entitle it 'Shit I Already Know'!" - Sarge from Red vs. Blue

by Chupathingy on Jun 18, 2009 8:54 AM CDT reply actions

Favorite Football Movie(s)

Heaven Can Wait: Warren Beatty plays the LA Rams QB

not my favorite football movie but loved the plot of wanting to be a championship LA RAM QB

Maybe one of my all time favorites:

Brian’s Song

by RamHard on Jun 18, 2009 8:54 AM CDT reply actions

Favorite Football Movie

Rudy…Rudy…Rudy

Chris

by chrisrmsfn on Jun 18, 2009 9:06 AM CDT reply actions

best movie

The last boyscout.funny,some what true.

by chndlr54 on Jun 18, 2009 9:58 AM CDT reply actions

yea

Friday nights a great night for football

It is milk it may be spilled it may be delicious.

by shostag on Jun 18, 2009 12:58 PM CDT up reply actions

Favorite is easily

Varsity Blues. Great football action. Entertaining story. Good, believable cast (even James Van Der Beek) and……….

Whip Cream Bikini!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I also like Any Given Sunday, but mostly because of the “Inches” speech by Pacino. There are times I just watch that speech. Oh. Almost forgot Water Boy……maybe that’s a guilty pleasure, but I love that movie.

Also, We Are Marshall. Not necessarily a “football” movie, but a really good move nonetheless. And Friday Night Lights was good.

But, my favorite was Varsity Blues.

I have a very, umm...photographic brain. A lot like Ansel Adams but in color and with a lot more, uh.....insertion and pubic hair.

by Tackle Box on Jun 18, 2009 10:17 AM CDT reply actions

Brian's Song.

Billy Dee Williams and James Caan were great. Rudy is probably second.

by andyrose on Jun 18, 2009 11:37 AM CDT reply actions

Not Relative to the Rams, but...

Paper Tiger was my second fav after Brian’s Song. That may be before your time VanRam.

Go Rams!

"We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now." --- Bruce Coslett, New York Jets Head Coach circa 1990s

by Nbr1RamFan on Jun 18, 2009 1:47 PM CDT reply actions

The Waterboy

It relates to the Rams because at the beginning the team is horrible.

H to the Izzo
V to the Izza
-The cool Jay Z.
Not the one we hate.

by Eric Nagel on Jun 18, 2009 2:02 PM CDT reply actions

re-posted from a fanpost... this needs to happen.

i agree..
100% with taiko here. Rosenbloom was/is a damn fine owner. A vast improvement over the total phoned- in ownership mantle Georgia the showgirl maintained for 15 years.

My biggest curiosity in him selling off the team is the fact that Rosenbloom himself was/is an aspiring/failed filmmaker, and there would be no better NFL-turned-big screen adaptation than the story of the ‘99 Rams. My brother and I often talk about the possibility of a movie version of the wosrt-to-first turfshow. If he sells the team, wouldn’t he lose the screen rights? ;)

You could even bring back Greg Kinnear as Vermeil. This movie would have to be better than the crapfest that was "Invincible", right? Anybody else have casting ideas? Josh Brolin as Warner? Omar Epps as Marshall? Josh Lucas as Ricky Proehl!

by mooseknuckles41 on Jun 18, 2009 3:59 PM CDT reply actions

I dunno.

If they did it right it would be a great story. But I’m afraid Hollywood would mess it up like they do so many other true stories. “We need our artistic freedom.”

by andyrose on Jun 18, 2009 4:06 PM CDT up reply actions