I have assembled the 26 best football-themed movies and in true March Madness style, created a bracket to determine the best football movie of all time.

 

Myself and three other sports-minded people ranked the movies 1 to 26, with seeds determined by the averages - low to high.

 

I will post a thread at different intervals throughout the next few weeks and months. Everyone will have the same amount of time to vote before the polls close. The winner advances.

 

You will not know the list of movies until the first round is over. I'm sure I have forgotten one or two, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

 

Some you won't see are:

 

Jerry McGuire, which was more about agents than football

• Black Sunday, more about terrorists than football
  
• Air Bud, more about being terrible than football
  
• Forrest Gump, MASH, Lucas, Last Boy Scout, etc. all had football in it but wasn't the central plot.

Use whatever criteria you wish in casting the vote. In the spirit of the MVP Award, "Best Football Movie" can mean whatever you want it to mean.

 

The bracket has two play-in games. They will play into the bracket against either the #9 or #10 seed.

 

#23 - Wildcats (Goldie Hawn, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harralson)

 

LINK to movie

 

vs.

 

#26 - Gus (Don Knotts, Tom Conway, Ed Asner)

 

 

LINK to the movie

No seeding for this tournament?

There are seeds. #1 to #26. This is a "play-in". I'm just not releasing the movie list because I want people to focus on the matchups instead of picking their winner off the list.

Duh. Next, time, tell me I'm stupid and I should read the entire post before replying. Thanks.

I pick Gus by default (can't stand Goldie Hawn)...

Gus.

 

Gotta love a movie with Don Knotts, Dick Butkus AND Colonel Hogan!

Great idea but Id be willing to bet I can guess the tourny winner already.

Four people had three different movies as their favorite. The low seeding was very close.

I really hope Heaven Can Wait makes the list. It's my #1...

Gus

Ya think anyone under forty has even heard of Gus let alone saw it?

Go Gus...you got to love a football playing mule.

Wildcats by far.

 

If nothing else for the cheerleaders with the "U-G-L-Y you ugly, hey hey you ugly!! M-A-M-A we know how you got that way, your MAMA, hey hey your MAMA!!!"

I think we can dispense with all the formalities and crown "The Longest Yard" — and no, not that garbage remake, but the outstanding original — as best all-time.

I think we can dispense with all the formalities and crown "The Longest Yard" — and no, not that garbage remake, but the outstanding original — as best all-time.

 

"MEAN MACHINE....MEAN MACHINE.....MEAN MACHINE"

I pick Gus by default (can't stand Goldie Hawn)...

 

I thought she was a hottie when she was on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.