Probably the worst athlete on this ballot, Lucas Bly was a small, socially awkward nerdy kid who tried out for the Football team in a desperate attempt to win the heart of a girl and if you are looking for a Hollywood scene where he made good on the field; well that didn’t happen here. You would expect an unathletic kid to get destroyed on the gridiron, and by God that is what happened. Still, it was the guts that he showed to put himself in an impossible situation that finally earned him the respect of his classmates and earned Corey Haim a ticket (albeit a four year one, with a massive downfall) to stardom.
The Bullet Points:
Movie Appeared:
Lucas (1986)
Actor:
Corey Haim
Position Portrayed:
“Prone”
Played for:
The Pirates
Why you should vote for him:
You won’t find a bigger underdog than this one.
Why you should not vote for him:
Lucas was an emotional win, not one based on any real athletic accomplishment.
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Leon Taylor had a bad year on Playmakers. He lost his starting Running Back job, he slapped around his wife (which the media found out about), he took PEDs, and his career basically came to an end. Good thing for Taylor this show only lasted one season. The Bullet Points: TV Show Appeared: Playmakers (2003) Actor: Russell Hornsby Position Portrayed: Running Back Played for: The Cougars Why you should vote for him: You could never say that Taylor didn’t want to play. Why you should not vote for him: Seriously, it was a real bad year for Taylor. Maybe if we saw his first season! {youtube}
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Is it possible to be a lovable douchebag? That is kind of how we felt while watching Kevin “Thad” Castle, the star Linebacker in Blue Mountain State. Sure, he was a bully, and one of those guys who you wonder how you could become friends with, but he was a good teammate, and for our purposes, the most interesting character on the show. Still, this guy (Alan Ritchson) also portrayed Aquaman in Smallville, which conversely is our least favorite character in the D.C. Universe. Giant Sea Horses, my ass! The Bullet Points: TV Show Appeared: Blue Mountain State (2010-2011) Actor: Alan Ritchson Position Portrayed: LInebacker Played for: Blue Mountain State Why you should vote for him: He was (for us) the best character on this show. Why you should not vote for him: Blue Mountain State was not exactly a highly viewed program. {youtube}
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Looking back, we wish they never made the third installment in the Bad News Bears series where they went to Japan. It is not because we don’t enjoy the film (we find them all enjoyable), but Jackie Earle Haley who played the star Centre Fielder appeared to have stunted growth after the first film, and his teammates all seemed to tower over him. To hammer that point, a year later he was Moocher, the diminutive member of the “Cutters” in the cycling movie, Breaking Away and in what was his final major film for twenty years, played a weasel like little douche trying to lose his virginity (along with a pre-Risky Business Tom Cruise) in Mexico in the aptly titled “Losin’ It”. Again, think how short Haley must be to look like a shrimp next to Cruise! Anyway, despite or love of Rorschach in the Watchmen, for us Haley will always be Kelly Leak, the star for the Bad News Bears who carried that team to respectability. He was not just the star; but the team’s bad ass and leader (as shown in the second installment when he drove the team to Texas to play in the Astrodome). With that said, how did he wind up appearing in multiple places in the batting order in that game against Texas? Maybe it was the same way they were billed as the California champs when they lost to the Yankees at the end of the first game. Regardless of those plot holes, you only believed that the Bears had a chance because Kelly Leak was in the lineup. The Bullet Points: Movie Appeared: The Bad News Bears (1976) The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) The Bad News Bears go to Japan (1978) Actor: Jackie Earle Haley Position Portrayed: Centre Field Played for: The “Bad News” Bears Why you should vote for him: He was the star and best player on the Bears, a staple of Baseball cinema. Why you should not vote for him: Couldn’t he have picked a better looking Japanese girl in the third installment? {youtube}
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