Football Movies

I love EW.com. Whenever there is a day when I don’t know what to blog about, they are there to hold my hand with a nice list of something or other for me to latch on to.

They are an entertainment blogger’s warm, soft blanket and I salute them.

Today, I had two lists to choose from. One was titled “Portraits of fall TV’s hot stars” and the other was “Hollywood football hall of fame.”

Given that I try to throw in hot girls from time to time to keep my audience, I thought sure my choice would be the hot stars.

Then I realized that by hot stars they meant stars of popular shows. I couldn’t bring myself to write a post about Neil Patrick Harris being hot.

So instead you get football movies.

I love football, but I watch very little of it. When I watch at all, it’s college ball and usually the Texas A&M Aggies or at least some other Big 12 team that may directly affect the Aggies’ standings.

Looking over this list, I’m surprised to find that I also haven’t watched very many football movies. By my count, I’ve watched 5 out of 15 of the listed football movies.

So many of them seem to be movies of inspiration. Frankly, I don’t really need to be inspired most of the time so I don’t usually choose such movies.

My three favorite football movies (in no particular order) would easily be:

• Varsity Blues
• Jerry Maguire
• The Waterboy

So two out of three made the list.

My fourth would probably be Necessary Roughness because anything with Jason Bateman, Scott Bakula, and Sinbad has to be a winner.

I’d also like to give a shout out to The Replacements because Neo as a quarterback is comedy gold.

What about you? What’s your favorite football movie of all time?