great moments are born from great
opportunity they enthrall and inspire us
beyond the cinema screen welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten sports
movie underdogs box my first game for
this list we’re looking at the underdog
figures or teams of our favorite sports
movies what do you play for
playful United States America an
underdog is someone who’s placed in a
seemingly impossible position
but emerges from it with a victory or at
the very least some sort of positive
result you are outside your mind number
ten
Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics
Moneyball I need more money Brad Pitt
steps into the fray as the real-life
Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane
after a disappointing postseason Beane
sees the next year as a time for a
shake-up a time for revolution my bar is
here my bars take this team to the
championship by hiring a Yale Economics
grad as his assistant he opts for a new
method of squad selection based entirely
on in-game statistics he walks a lot he
gets on base a lot
Rocco do I care if it’s a walker hit
Pete you do not the people are dubious
they want results and the rest of the
league dismisses the unorthodox approach
without a second thought we’ve been
working our asses off for the last six
and a half weeks to make this ballclub
better you’re stepping already hopefully
a top ten finish on our list will
silence the doubters
a bomb metal better better River
maneuver hockey number 9 the Mighty
Ducks I’m gonna call a goalies save
gonna go like I’m gonna go get a bagel
childhood memories can inspire or and
bitter it’s the latter for Emilio
Estevez as hardliner lawyer Gordon
Bombay ah thank you very much mr.
Ducksworth it was nothing mr. Ducksworth
mr. Ducksworth
as a kid he missed a vital penalty shot
and cost his hockey team and
ultra-competitive coach the championship
and while he may have moved on from his
blown chance he never got over it when
he finds himself in charge of a local
youth team years later it’s a chance for
retribution these kids haven’t been
afforded the proper equipment and aren’t
naturally gifted but there’s a dream for
them to follow number eight Michael or
The Blind Side depicting the rise to
fame of real-life NFL player Michael or
The Blind Side is a semi biographical
film and a sensational underdog story
after a hugely unsettled childhood
plagued by a drug-addicted mother and
failed foster care when did you last see
Michael no no Big Mike is helped and
housed by Sandra Bullock’s Lianne tui I
would like to become a legal guardian
Lord help that child a role for which
Bullock received an Academy Award it’s
through her guidance and love that or is
inspired to improve his school work
epoch to improve his grades and to
improve his chances in life
number seven the USA men’s Olympic
hockey team miracle her you actually
think you can take a bunch of kids I’ve
never played together teach my whole new
style of play and the time we have
once more we head into the world of real
life as 7th place is taken by the
American hockey side of the 1980 Winter
Olympics a group of great individual
players it’s the job of Kurt Russell as
coach Herb Brooks to make them into a
great team yeah that’s gonna work for
this movie the potential is always there
it’s just a lesson and how to realize it
you guys don’t want to work during the
game Oh problem with a tournament draw
that includes Sweden Czechoslovakia and
the mighty Soviet Union if they win the
gold they will really have earned it
number six the average joe’s dodgeball a
true underdog story
we could play dodgeball we now leap from
biography to bedlam if you can dodge a
wrench you can dodge a ball
what dodgeball is chaotic enough as it
is but throw Vince Vaughn and Ben
Stiller into the mix and it’s all-out
pandemonium cram it up you cram hole in
the floor
Vaughn’s the owner of the average joe’s
a small and unsuccessful local gym
stiller’s the owner of Globo gym an
all-conquering finely tuned sports
machine you call that a sit-up don’t
slack Trevor I’ve watching you when the
two meet on the dodgeball court it’s a
fierce competition between a ragtag team
of misfits kouchtown population you bro
and a powerful group of athletes the
Globo gym purple Cobras led by white
Goodman Paul business there’s only ever
gonna be one winner between these two
right I have been to the Great Wall of
China I
the pyramids of Egypt I’ve even
witnessed a grown man satisfy a camel
but never in all my years as a
sportscaster and I witnessed something
as improbable as impossible as one is
here today number five the prison
inmates The Longest Yard long play
football for Burt Reynolds as former pro
QB Paul wrecking crew and his pack of
prisoners this is more than just a
football game we’re talking about early
parole
right absolutely huh persuaded by the
prison guards to formulate a team of
cons Reynolds compiles the dodgiest
dirtiest most dangerous squad the game
has ever seen they go by the name Mean
Machine they play with no mercy and
they’re the inspiration behind the 2001
British soccer film of the same name
the monks collected it cleanly the monk
common calculated their legacy has
lasted but how will they fare on the
prison pitch against a team of cheating
guards we’re getting up a football game
against the guards wondered if maybe you
and some of your buddies here would like
to join in on the fun with the guards
huh huh sure I’d like that number four
the Jamaican bobsled team Cool Runnings
the rhythm
for the second time we head for the snow
and the Winter Olympics it’s a happy
hunting ground for underdogs and we’re
at the bobsled track for this all smiles
comedy loosely paralleling the events of
the 1988 Calgary Olympics a surprise
Jamaican team is entered into the
competition but they find they have to
battle more than just the course Hey
seaman do you like nobody likes this
we’re different people are always afraid
of what’s different
they’re first-timers on the track and
they’re outsiders on the sidelines cool
okay okay thanks cool all right
this movie is as much a quest for
acceptance as it is a quest for victory
where do these guys come from
number three Daniel Larusso the Karate
Kid
picture the scene you’ve just moved to a
new high school
you’ve fallen for a very attractive
cheerleader but her jealous ex-boyfriend
knows a bit of karate and he’s trying to
kill you well Daniel Larusso doesn’t
start from an easy position at all but
with the guidance of mr. Miyagi no such
thing bad student only bad teacher
a lot of hard work and a little bit of
luck he hopes that one day he will
dominate the dojo and get his dream girl
she’s really smart I don’t know what
she’d do I say she’s beautiful I think
she’s beautiful
Thanks she’s something else she’s hot
definitely hot number two Daniel
rüdiger Rudy after high school I’m
gonna play football at Notre Dame
there are impossible dreamers and then
there’s Daniel Rudy Ruettiger hey this
place is really something Elsa the Notre
Dame football field is a hallowed place
for this young man and it’s one that
he’s determined to not only set foot
upon but also to play upon I wanted to
run out of that tunnel for my dad he
meets obstacles of Plenty and setback
after setback I quit hell it divided
health coach Ianto there are times when
hopes are raised before they’re
inevitably dashed but here we’re a couch
they fall short yes this is a story
about football but it’s also a story
about growing up Rudy is a coming of age
classic and our runner-up
before we take a swing at our top pick
here are a few honorable mentions yeah
but it looks so perfect out there
doesn’t it yeah he does
number one Rocky Balboa rocky dog living
a Cinderella story in East Africa’s
imagination by
the world it’s round one seconds out
Rocky Balboa is our undisputed underdog
the surprise selection for a world
championship fight the critics write him
off the fans write him off even he
doesn’t believe he can win he just wants
to go the distance
I really don’t matter if I it was just
like really don’t matter if this guy
opens my head here under the watchful
gaze of Mickey Gould Malvo you lay off
that PET SHOP gay women we can race
there are no lengths to which rocky
won’t go for greatness
he’s our champ before he’s even stepped
into the ring against the undefeated
Apollo Creed we root for the underdog
and for Rocky most of all
do you agree with our list F&A cotton
which inspirational athlete did we miss
for more fan favorite top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
opportunity they enthrall and inspire us
beyond the cinema screen welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten sports
movie underdogs box my first game for
this list we’re looking at the underdog
figures or teams of our favorite sports
movies what do you play for
playful United States America an
underdog is someone who’s placed in a
seemingly impossible position
but emerges from it with a victory or at
the very least some sort of positive
result you are outside your mind number
ten
Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics
Moneyball I need more money Brad Pitt
steps into the fray as the real-life
Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane
after a disappointing postseason Beane
sees the next year as a time for a
shake-up a time for revolution my bar is
here my bars take this team to the
championship by hiring a Yale Economics
grad as his assistant he opts for a new
method of squad selection based entirely
on in-game statistics he walks a lot he
gets on base a lot
Rocco do I care if it’s a walker hit
Pete you do not the people are dubious
they want results and the rest of the
league dismisses the unorthodox approach
without a second thought we’ve been
working our asses off for the last six
and a half weeks to make this ballclub
better you’re stepping already hopefully
a top ten finish on our list will
silence the doubters
a bomb metal better better River
maneuver hockey number 9 the Mighty
Ducks I’m gonna call a goalies save
gonna go like I’m gonna go get a bagel
childhood memories can inspire or and
bitter it’s the latter for Emilio
Estevez as hardliner lawyer Gordon
Bombay ah thank you very much mr.
Ducksworth it was nothing mr. Ducksworth
mr. Ducksworth
as a kid he missed a vital penalty shot
and cost his hockey team and
ultra-competitive coach the championship
and while he may have moved on from his
blown chance he never got over it when
he finds himself in charge of a local
youth team years later it’s a chance for
retribution these kids haven’t been
afforded the proper equipment and aren’t
naturally gifted but there’s a dream for
them to follow number eight Michael or
The Blind Side depicting the rise to
fame of real-life NFL player Michael or
The Blind Side is a semi biographical
film and a sensational underdog story
after a hugely unsettled childhood
plagued by a drug-addicted mother and
failed foster care when did you last see
Michael no no Big Mike is helped and
housed by Sandra Bullock’s Lianne tui I
would like to become a legal guardian
Lord help that child a role for which
Bullock received an Academy Award it’s
through her guidance and love that or is
inspired to improve his school work
epoch to improve his grades and to
improve his chances in life
number seven the USA men’s Olympic
hockey team miracle her you actually
think you can take a bunch of kids I’ve
never played together teach my whole new
style of play and the time we have
once more we head into the world of real
life as 7th place is taken by the
American hockey side of the 1980 Winter
Olympics a group of great individual
players it’s the job of Kurt Russell as
coach Herb Brooks to make them into a
great team yeah that’s gonna work for
this movie the potential is always there
it’s just a lesson and how to realize it
you guys don’t want to work during the
game Oh problem with a tournament draw
that includes Sweden Czechoslovakia and
the mighty Soviet Union if they win the
gold they will really have earned it
number six the average joe’s dodgeball a
true underdog story
we could play dodgeball we now leap from
biography to bedlam if you can dodge a
wrench you can dodge a ball
what dodgeball is chaotic enough as it
is but throw Vince Vaughn and Ben
Stiller into the mix and it’s all-out
pandemonium cram it up you cram hole in
the floor
Vaughn’s the owner of the average joe’s
a small and unsuccessful local gym
stiller’s the owner of Globo gym an
all-conquering finely tuned sports
machine you call that a sit-up don’t
slack Trevor I’ve watching you when the
two meet on the dodgeball court it’s a
fierce competition between a ragtag team
of misfits kouchtown population you bro
and a powerful group of athletes the
Globo gym purple Cobras led by white
Goodman Paul business there’s only ever
gonna be one winner between these two
right I have been to the Great Wall of
China I
the pyramids of Egypt I’ve even
witnessed a grown man satisfy a camel
but never in all my years as a
sportscaster and I witnessed something
as improbable as impossible as one is
here today number five the prison
inmates The Longest Yard long play
football for Burt Reynolds as former pro
QB Paul wrecking crew and his pack of
prisoners this is more than just a
football game we’re talking about early
parole
right absolutely huh persuaded by the
prison guards to formulate a team of
cons Reynolds compiles the dodgiest
dirtiest most dangerous squad the game
has ever seen they go by the name Mean
Machine they play with no mercy and
they’re the inspiration behind the 2001
British soccer film of the same name
the monks collected it cleanly the monk
common calculated their legacy has
lasted but how will they fare on the
prison pitch against a team of cheating
guards we’re getting up a football game
against the guards wondered if maybe you
and some of your buddies here would like
to join in on the fun with the guards
huh huh sure I’d like that number four
the Jamaican bobsled team Cool Runnings
the rhythm
for the second time we head for the snow
and the Winter Olympics it’s a happy
hunting ground for underdogs and we’re
at the bobsled track for this all smiles
comedy loosely paralleling the events of
the 1988 Calgary Olympics a surprise
Jamaican team is entered into the
competition but they find they have to
battle more than just the course Hey
seaman do you like nobody likes this
we’re different people are always afraid
of what’s different
they’re first-timers on the track and
they’re outsiders on the sidelines cool
okay okay thanks cool all right
this movie is as much a quest for
acceptance as it is a quest for victory
where do these guys come from
number three Daniel Larusso the Karate
Kid
picture the scene you’ve just moved to a
new high school
you’ve fallen for a very attractive
cheerleader but her jealous ex-boyfriend
knows a bit of karate and he’s trying to
kill you well Daniel Larusso doesn’t
start from an easy position at all but
with the guidance of mr. Miyagi no such
thing bad student only bad teacher
a lot of hard work and a little bit of
luck he hopes that one day he will
dominate the dojo and get his dream girl
she’s really smart I don’t know what
she’d do I say she’s beautiful I think
she’s beautiful
Thanks she’s something else she’s hot
definitely hot number two Daniel
rüdiger Rudy after high school I’m
gonna play football at Notre Dame
there are impossible dreamers and then
there’s Daniel Rudy Ruettiger hey this
place is really something Elsa the Notre
Dame football field is a hallowed place
for this young man and it’s one that
he’s determined to not only set foot
upon but also to play upon I wanted to
run out of that tunnel for my dad he
meets obstacles of Plenty and setback
after setback I quit hell it divided
health coach Ianto there are times when
hopes are raised before they’re
inevitably dashed but here we’re a couch
they fall short yes this is a story
about football but it’s also a story
about growing up Rudy is a coming of age
classic and our runner-up
before we take a swing at our top pick
here are a few honorable mentions yeah
but it looks so perfect out there
doesn’t it yeah he does
number one Rocky Balboa rocky dog living
a Cinderella story in East Africa’s
imagination by
the world it’s round one seconds out
Rocky Balboa is our undisputed underdog
the surprise selection for a world
championship fight the critics write him
off the fans write him off even he
doesn’t believe he can win he just wants
to go the distance
I really don’t matter if I it was just
like really don’t matter if this guy
opens my head here under the watchful
gaze of Mickey Gould Malvo you lay off
that PET SHOP gay women we can race
there are no lengths to which rocky
won’t go for greatness
he’s our champ before he’s even stepped
into the ring against the undefeated
Apollo Creed we root for the underdog
and for Rocky most of all
do you agree with our list F&A cotton
which inspirational athlete did we miss
for more fan favorite top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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