I don’t have much interest in sports but it being Super Bowl Sunday and all I thought I’d participate by listing what I thought were the best football movies. Here’s my list:
The Freshman* (1925)
Horse Feathers** (1932)
The Gladiator (1938)
Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
Trouble Along the Way (1953)
Paper Lion (1968)
Brian’s Song (1971)
The Longest Yard (1974)
North Dallas Forty (1979)
Rudy (1993)
Any Given Sunday (1999)
Remember the Titans (2000)
Friday Night Lights (2004)
The Blind Side (2009)
There are some others, like Necessary Roughness or The Replacements that I’d put in the category of light entertainment.
What do you think are the best football movies?
* I realize that The Freshman is a college movie, not really a football movie, but football does play an important role in it.
** Same with Horse Feathers.
I would add “We Are Marshall,” the 2006 movie about the Marshall University football team, most of which was killed in a plane crash in 1970.
A good addition.