Although we hate to speak ill of the dead, the idea of any High School Quarterback picking the Glee Club over the gridiron seems ridiculous to us. Still, this show (Glee) was ridiculously popular, though were any sports fans watching this?

While Jake Bradford was the center of the Richard Linklater film, “Everybody Wants Some!!” the soul of the film was arguably “Finnegan” the cerebral player for the Cherokees.  Played by Glen Powell, this was the character that entertainment revolved around, regardless of plot.

We guess this qualifies. Altering the backstory to make him the Quarterback of the New York Jets (and we are sure he did better than Mark Sanchez), Flash Gordon does little in the realm of Football in this film that makes you remember that he is an NFL player. Still, with the movie is “so bad that it’s good” aura and status as a cult classic, could we see Flash Gordon enter this establishment?

When you first watched “Stand By Me” would you have ever thought in a million years that the fat kid would have believable as a number one draft pick in the NFL? Not only that, did you ever believe he would turn into a capable (we didn’t say great) actor? Perhaps it is that disbelief that got him onto our ballot.

The “B” Movies enters the ballot on with Roger Corman (who else) and the dystopian American future where cross country road annually occurs whereby points are awarded on the amount of bystanders who are run over….sounds like our kind of movie! The premise is ridiculous, the cheese factor is through the roof and the acting is terrible, yet we keep cheering for Frankenstein (David Carradine) to keep mowing over people. We can’t be the only ones who like camp like this?

We know there were no actual football scenes in the Revenge of the Nerds movies, but the clear rivals in this film was the Adams College Football team VS the incoming geeks of the institution.   The heroes may have been the geeks, but you couldn’t help but want to party with (regardless of whether you were cool or not) with Ogre, the monosyllabic linebacker who hated nerds (though he wasn’t sure why) and drank a lot of beer. Perhaps that is why at the end of the sequel Ogre, became joined Lambda Lambda Lambda and became one of the “good…

Maybe this film didn’t go all the way. Everybody’s All American showcased Dennis Quaid as Gavin Grey as a superstar Running Back at LSU who had life by the balls and was the proverbial “Big Man on Campus”. He would go on to have a decent pro career, though we would slowly watch him go from college superstar, to solid pro, to a has-been longing for the past. The football scenes in the film were decent, so there is no issue here with that, but as much as we love Quaid in films about athletes, we equally detest him when…

Clearly inspired by Mike Tyson’s real life incarceration the decade before; George “Iceman” Chambers (Ving Rhames) plays a bad ass former Heavyweight Boxing Champion who winds up in jail. The normally likable Rhames, turns that switch off and he finds himself in a contest with the prison champion (Wesley Snipes). Although the film was not critically respected, we did like it, though we found Rhames miscast, as he was 43 when the film was out, and looked significantly older. He may have still resembled a bad ass boxer, but one who was at the prime of his career? Not a…

Are we at the stage where a woman is set to enter Major League Baseball?  Probably not, but Fox’s Pitch is a decent show, and if there were to be a women throwing in the Majors, don’t you think she would look a lot like Ginny Baker?

Every team has a best player and with the Southeast Texas Cherokees College Baseball Team, it was Glen McReynolds, the probable future MLB player who was hyper-competitive.  As such, how can the best player from this team not be considered?

Take the fat uncoordinated smart ass kid and stick him in the goaltenders position, and watch the hilarity ensue. We guess that is the formula for Greg Goldberg, the unlikely backstopper for the Mighty Ducks franchise. As this is a film, we will try to forget the complete unlikelihood of this kid being able to stop a beachball let alone a puck.

We are a little torn on this nomination. As much as we enjoyed the coming of age Scottish film, “Gregory’s Girl”, the lead character (played by John Gordon Sinclair in what we believe was his only movie) lost his starting position to the object of his affection, Dorothy, who proved to be the star of the soccer team. Still, in terms of young characters, it is hard to find one better than this one.

Yep. A Field Goal kicking mule from Yugoslavia that is capable of making it through the uprights from 100 Yards. As ridiculous as it sounds, this movie made money for Disney in 1976, and it was likely loosely based on the European soccer players who were starting to find their way into American Football. Still, the field goal kicking mule is more believable than Don Knotts as a Football Coach.              The Bullet Points: Movie Appeared: Gus (1976) Actor: Some random Mule Position Played: Place Kicker Played for: California Atoms Why You Should Vote For Him: A 100 Yard…

Two major things work against the Benchwarmers. First, is that we are asked to believe that Rob Schneider (AKA: the guy who played Deuce Bigelow and the annoying copy guy on SNL) is a Baseball star. The second thing is that watching grown men, regardless of physically inept they are, defeating a bunch of kids on the baseball diamond is rewarding for the viewer in any capacity.

What was supposed to be “Bring it on” in the field of gymnastics, was a film that we fast forwarded through, and was sorry that Jeff Bridges was in. Haley Graham was the focal gymnast; so we’ll nominate her….we guess.   The Bullet Points: Movie Appeared: Stick It (2006) Actor: Missy Peregrym Played for: Vickerman Gymnastics Academy Why you should vote for her: Well, she is a gymnast with boobs. That doesn’t happen to often does it? Why you should not vote for her: This movie stunk.

The tradition of the fat kid being the Catcher continues, as does the same trend of said fat kid being the team smart ass. Patrick Renna made a pre-teen career out of that role, but at least in the Sandlot, he was in a good film, and was given a couple of clever lines.

Hot Dog, The Movie was one 80’s cliché after another, and as such became a perfect snapshot of the era; for better or worse. Our hero is a young unproven American freestyle skier named Harkin Banks, who was played by a man named Patrick Houser who had the acting skills of a mason jar. That didn’t matter as he banged Shannon Tweed and taught the evil German a lesson at the end; which was all you really needed to have happen to send people home happy.

There was something likable about Harry Hayes, the British representative in the 1970 film, “The Games”. Maybe it was because on the naïve side or maybe it was because we viewed him as a distant cousin to Austin Powers. We know this much; even though we knew he wasn’t going to run that two hour Marathon, we couldn’t help but wish he could.  

From the fun, though poorly reviewed boxing film, Grudge Match, we have Sylvester Stallone again donning boxing gloves, playing a former Light Heavyweight Champion of the World. Inspired by the Joe Kapp/Angelo Mosca debacle that occurred when the two former (and senior citizens) Canadian Football legends fought in a video that went viral on YouTube, the scenario was replicated in a boxing forum, thus leading to an inevitable fight between the two geriatric pugilists. We won’t spoil the ending if you haven’t seen it, but the boxing match shown on the film did not do a bad job in entertaining.…

Although the premise of an unathletic twelve year old suddenly having the ability to throw a wicked fastball due to a freak arm injury, it was easy to overlook because the film was clean fun, and reminded us that Baseball is supposed to be a game that we enjoy and not take so damned seriously. Maybe we are also giving it a pass because the twelve year old in question (Thomas Ian Nicholas), gave oral to a pre-train wreck Tara Reid in American Pie.

One of the great sports movies of the 70’s, Bang the Drum Slowly was part Brian’s Song, part of Mice and Men. Michael Moriarty played the star Pitcher who took care of his slower friend and Catcher played by Robert DeNiro. It was one of the kinder roles in sports films and in many ways, the older brother that we all wish we could have. The film may be forty years old, but we are a little surprised that its legacy is not as strong.

If we can include Clyde the Orangutan and the Gopher from Caddyshack (both of which made the semi-finals in the Contributor section in the site’s opening year) than we have to have Herbie the Love Bug, the racing car that comes “alive” and can drive itself when necessary. As laughable as it sounds, this generated multiple movies for Disney and made them millions. Saying that, do you really that a Volkswagen Beetle is winning race, mind of its or not? Let’s see it beat KITT in a race!

Diggstown was a movie that we loved, though it failed to get a large audience. Nevertheless, we loved watching “Honey” Roy Palmer (Louis Gossett Jr.) box ten men in a twenty-four hour period. Although Louis Gossett Jr., may have been a little long in the tooth to pull that off, when you have an actor as compelling as Gossett Jr., we seemed to have no issue with it. Were we the only ones?

Bernard King played a character named, “Hustler”, which was exactly what he was. As (we thought) the star player for Gabe Kaplan’s Cadwallader University squad, Hustler was to us the man granted some of the best lines in the film, and with his basketball pedigree (and the fact that he looked good here as an actor), we will go out on our limb and say this is our primary nominee for the 1970’s Basketball film you should have seen. Too bad, you probably did not!

A film that still befuddles us in some capacity, we still can’t figure out whether we like “Nacho Libre”. Jack Black is a favorite for many, and the film did not tank at the box office, but it was not exactly loved by critics, and it did not take Mexican wrestling to another level in popularity. As it stands now, Nacho Libre does not look like it has the legs to be a cult favorite, and without that status, it seems difficult to see Nacho making the Hall.