Comments on: Top Five… Sports Teams

By: david

david — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:27:06 +0000

mcguinnr – you are the mcguinnr who knows more about movies than any other mcguinnr i have ever met.

By: mcguinnr

mcguinnr — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:10:42 +0000

Have to second david on “The Club” – truly bizarre but great Aussie stuff.

Does Average Joes Gym get a look in here? (“if ya can dodge cars, ya can dodge balls!”)

By: Markham

Markham — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:13:51 +0000

Average Joes.

Pirates, lesbians, they have it all. And they lose, but STILL win.

By: Paragraph Films

Paragraph Films — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:41:25 +0000

Dude, dude, dude!!!

What about the Beers from BASEketball?!?!? I’d LOVE to be on their team more than anything else.

By: david

david — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:26:43 +0000

Great call on Bedknobs and Slap Shot but generally with Gareth on this, it’s a lame list. Never understood the appeal of Escape to Victory, other than it is a novelty act.

Good call on the bobsleighers, would add Houston Rollerball team and the Snipes and Harrelson partnership in White Men Can’t Jump.

Also, ‘The Club’, is possibly the best, certainly one of the most underrated films about sports ever produced, and all set around Collingwood Aussie Rules team. Definitely should be in this list.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:58:00 +0000

The Mighty Ducks!

By: Ross McD

Ross McD — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:28:29 +0000

That Bedknobs and Broomsticks match is not only the best ever sporting event to occur in a movie, but the best ever sporting event ever.
The allies kit in Escape always reminds me of ten people-shaped herbie lovebugs.
Feckin Sly, robbed the only Irish player in the team of his place, and what did he get in return? A very grimly dispatched broken arm.
What is it about Ireland getting ripped off in international football and dodgely-placed arms?

By: gareth

gareth — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:22:14 +0000

find this list mildly disappointing, but then I’m sure you expected I would.

What about the Hickory High Huskers and the Mean Machine?

And just for laughs, the Jamaican bobsleigh team and Ty Webb/Danny Noonan…

At least you didn’t pick a quidditch team (and yes I had to look quidditch up)

By: cinemascream

cinemascream — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:12:39 +0000

The Charlestown Chiefs – nicely done.

A personal favourite of mine has to be the Cleveland Indians (Major League, 1989)

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:44:25 +0000

That’s a cracking list. There must be more too; surely a (dis)honourable mention for the team from Any Given Sunday or… erm… Shaolin Soccer to name but two mentioned in this Wiki – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_sports_teams