Sports movie mistakes/inaccuracies that drive you nuts

[hawkeye54545]

Obviously a spinoff of the military thread.

In The Replacements after a kickoff they took a timeout to stop the clock. That's something if you are doing a movie about football someone should notice.

 

[millah_22]

How was Buddy allowed to play for the school basketball team when he couldn't meet academic requirements?

 

[Bro D]

In the Kurt Warner movie they had him playing in an outdoor stadium at UNI. For shame

 

[FAUlty Gator]

I remember how Teen Wolf seemed to play a lot of the same teams and then the team he played a couple weeks ago he played in the championship and also he was a wolf that everyone knew about and were ok with.

 

[fivecardstud14]

Larry Johnson (Grandmama) blatant double dribble at the end of Eddie. 1:35:33 of link.

 

[QChawks]

 

[millah_22]

I remember how Teen Wolf seemed to play a lot of the same teams and then the team he played a couple weeks ago he played in the championship and also he was a wolf that everyone knew about and were ok with.

He got that dawg in him.

 

[Moral]

Cole should have been flagged for excessive celebration on The Last Boy Scout. Ain't life a bitch.

 

[LuciousBDragon]

Obviously a spinoff of the military thread.

In The Replacements after a kickoff they took a timeout to stop the clock. That's something if you are doing a movie about football someone should notice.

I’m an Iowa fan, isn’t something like this normal?

 

[WrigleyHawkeye20]

The “Flying V” would never work in real life.

 

[fivecardstud14]

Rowengartner says two outs, full count. Then says strike one.

 

[Moral]

The “Flying V” would never work in real life.

Bullshit. Next you are going to tell me you don't understand how unstoppable knuckle pucks are.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

The year before Airplane was released Kareem Abdul Jabar led the NBA in blocked shots and rebounds. So little Timmy’s dad was full of shit about him being lazy on defense and rebounding.

 

[runkpanole]

Rudy was offside

 

[hawkirugged17]

The year before Airplane was released Kareem Abdul Jabar led the NBA in blocked shots and rebounds. So little Timmy’s dad was full of shit about him being lazy on defense and rebounding.

In reverse ...

 

[millah_22]

Rudy was offside

Rudy would have gotten blown the f*ck up

 

[Tom Paris]

Actors who don't know how to throw a ball.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

Rudy would have gotten blown the f*ck up

Rudy actually had 1 sack. It was exactly that LSU game. He is considered the greatest defensive player in ND history, averaging one sack every 9 seconds.

I sat and talked with the real Rudy in 1993 at the Walter Camp awards as that movie came out and that was his schtick.

 

[DropitlikeitsHawk]

I have had 2 golden retrievers and one lab and no matter how many basketballs I throw at their face they don’t make shit.

 

[LuciousBDragon]

Varsity Blues taught me to play DB and that good fundamental tackling starts with going airborne on every play.

 

[Moral]

I have had 2 golden retrievers and one lab and no matter how many basketballs I throw at their face they don’t make shit.

I actually believe you throw basketballs at dogs.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

I destroyed my starting linebacker’s new sports car to get him motivated for the upcoming game. But he had one of those doorbell cameras and I got fired and given community service, and he showed up late to the game because he didn’t have a ride.

I knew Spicoli couldn’t be trusted.

 

[DropitlikeitsHawk]

I actually believe you throw basketballs at dogs.

That’s because you’re stupid.

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

In the movie, "Country", Hayden Fry's Hawkeyes played a regular season game on a Sunday.

 

[millah_22]

That’s because you’re stupid.

 

[DropitlikeitsHawk]

I kid I kid.

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

Daniel wins the karate tournament with a kick to the face when that is against the rules as explained at the start.

 

[SoDakHawk]

Notre Dame vs USC playing on Christmas Eve in the movie Die Hard. Yeah, not a sports movie, but c'mon. They need to get details like that right.

 

[JWolf74]

I don't really think angels would really be bothered with helping a baseball team win.

 

[ButtersHawk]

Friday Night Lights (the show).
I think it was season 1 or 2 but they won the State Title by running a hook and lateral.
Not crazy but it was for about 50 yards and they ran it with their RB and FB both coming out of the backfield.

 

[SSG T]

Actors who don't know how to throw a ball.

Or run. You see FB movies where either the dude with the ball is obviously sandbagging because no one can keep up and they need them to, or the opposite, everyone else is sandbagging because the dude with the ball is slow AF.

 

[ButtersHawk]

All-American. This guy is suppose to be a D1 or NFL WR in this show

 

[Huey Grey]

In Varsity Blues, Mox says, "I don't want this life." Bullshit. Everybody wants that life.

 

[hawkeyeandy]

Permian lost to Carter in the semifinals, not the finals (Friday Night Lights).

 

[beanerhawk]

How was Buddy allowed to play for the school basketball team when he couldn't meet academic requirements?

To be fair when I was in high school in the early 90's they didn't care about you being academiclly eligible, I doubt they gave a shit in the 50's.

 

[JupiterHawk]

Friday Night Lights (movie). Pretty damn sure there that the clock was rolling after an incomplete pass. And how did the son find Dad's ring in the middle of nowhere?

 

[beanerhawk]

Flaco can't kiss the cheer leaders during the game.

 

[Breastman]

Why did Reg Dunlop sit the Hanson Brothers for so many games before playing them? No way you would have gone with 6 forwards while just leaving a capable line just sitting there for weeks on end. Dunlop is 40-something years old and he’s skating 30 something minutes a night? Please. No wonder he was a losing coach.

 

[JWolf74]

In Varsity Blues, Mox says, "I don't want this life." Bullshit. Everybody wants that life.

Umm.... The line was "I don't want your life". He was talking to his dad, a guy who peaked in high school, was a shitty football player and it's trying to live vicariously through his star son while entirely ignoring his son's much larger academic aspirations.

Fun fact-varsity blues is the one movie Paul Walker doesn't entirely ruin, although he tried really hard to.

 

[General Tso]

Worst editing ever. He starts to descend before it flips to the trampoline cut.