Which Sport Has The Best Movies?
Over the weekend I watched a few fighting movies, as you do. Warrior, Southpaw, and Million Dollar Baby, to be exact, and I thought to myself, “Ya know, my thing is combat sports. MMA primarily, but I enjoy boxing and kickboxing and everything you can call a “combat sport”. Boxing isn’t what it used be, and MMA’s on the rise, but no combat sport is mainstream to the level of baseball, football, soccer, hockey, or basketball…and the best sports movies are STILL about them!” I threw the tweet out there, and Big Cat disagreed heavily.
He also said it’s not fair for me to group ALL combat sports together, and I agreed, so just stuck to boxing. He made his list, I made mine, and now I’d like to take a look at all sports and give you their best ten movies (what I believe is general consensus, no documentaries) and their Rotten Tomatoes scores I’m trying to be as unbiased as possible, so if your movie doesn’t make the list, apologies, but I don’t wanna hear it. I also don’t wanna hear you complain about the % ratings system, because that’s pulled from Rotten Tomatoes, not my brain.
I polled the office and got their picks for which sport has the best movies, that can be found at the bottom of this blog.
Boxing
Rocky – 93%
Rocky II – 73%
The Hurricane – 83%
Raging Bull – 97%
Creed – 94%
Million Dollar Baby – 91%
The Fighter – 90%
Cinderella Man – 80%
The Boxer – 80%
Ali – 67%
Average Score: 84.8%
Basketball
Space Jam – 37%
Hoosiers – 88%
White Men Can’t Jump – 76%
Hoop Dreams – 98%
Air Bud – 43% (I didn’t want to include but Big Cat and Greenie insisted)
Love & Basketball – 82%
He Got Game – 80%
Coach Carter – 65%
Above The Rim – 53%
Blue Chips – 37%
Average Score: 65.9%
Baseball (This makes the best case against boxing for me)
The Sandlot – 58%
Bull Durham – 97%
Field Of Dreams – 86%
A League of Their Own – 78%
Moneyball – 94%
The Bad News Bears – 96%
Major League – 83%
Eight Men Out – 85%
The Rookie – 83%
61* – 80%
Average Score: 84%
Football
Rudy – 80%
Remember The Titans – 73%
Any Given Sunday – 51%
Friday Night Lights – 81%
Brian’s Song – 92%
The Blind Side – 66%
Varsity Blues – 40%
Little Giants – 40%
All The Right Moves – 53%
We Are Marshall – 49%
Average Score: 62.5%
Hockey
Slapshot – 81%
Miracle – 80%
The Mighty Ducks – 15%
D2: The Mighty Ducks – 21%
D3: The Mighty Ducks – 20%
Youngblood – 38%
Miracle, Alaska – 38%
Goon – 82%
The Rocket – 56%
Slapshot 2 – 0% (Sorry for this outlier but hockey has no shot anyway)
Average Score: 43.1%
Office Poll
Boxing: Robbie, Jerry Thornton, Ria, Rear Admiral, Francis, Billy Football
Basketball: Big Cat, Reags, Gay Pat
Baseball: Chaps, JJ, Office Manager Brett, Dave Portnoy, Glenny Balls, Smitty, KFC, Carrabis
Football: Kmarko, Cons, Pat McAfee, Francesca, Hubbs, Tex, Caleb, Digs
Hockey: Young Pageviews, PFT Commenter, Feitelberg
Other
Golf: Riggs, Frankie Borrelli
Lacrosse: Hank
NASCAR: Caleb
Baseketball: Rone, Coley
Now it’s on you, stoolies…which sport has the best movies?
I’ll post the results tonight at like 10pm on Twitter @RobbieBarstool