Favorite TV/Movie Athletes?

[BunnyHardaway]

Pretty straight forward. I had a hard time narrowing down my list, but here goes:

1. Kenny Powers (Eastbound & Down)
2. Thad Castle (Blue Mountain State)
3. Happy Gilmore (Happy Gilmore)
4. Rod Tidwell (Jerry Maguire)
5. Alex Moran (Blue Mountain State)
6. Ricky Bobby (Talladega Nights)
7. Rick Vaughn (Major League)
8. Squeak Scolari (Baseketball)
9. Charlie Tweeder (Varsity Blues)
10. Ernie McCracken (Kingpin)

HM: Jon Moxon (Varsity Blues), Cole Trickle (Days of Thunder), Pedro Cerrano (Major League), Willie Beamen (Any Given Sunday), Cal Naughton Jr. (Talladega Nights)

[JayBee74]

Re: Favorite TV/Movie Athletes?

Rocky Balboa (Rocky), Phil Elliott (North Dallas Forty), Patrick "Lights" Leary (Lights Out), Rick Vaughn (Major League), Sam "Mayday" Malone (Cheers), Brian Piccolo (Brian's Song), Fast Eddie Felson (The Hustler), Crash Davis (Bull Durham)

[Kearnzo]

Re: Favorite TV/Movie Athletes?

Roy Hobbs.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Favorite TV/Movie Athletes?

Rocky Balboa (Rocky), Phil Elliott (North Dallas Forty), Patrick "Lights" Leary (Lights Out), Rick Vaughn (Major League), Sam "Mayday" Malone (Cheers), Brian Piccolo (Brian's Song), Fast Eddie Felson (The Hustler), Crash Davis (Bull Durham)

Rocky and Mayday. Done.

Oh, and Al Bundy. He once scored 4 TDs in one game at Polk High.

[DonkeyJote]

Re: Favorite TV/Movie Athletes?

1. Thad Castle (Blue Mountain State)
2. Rocky Balboa (Rocky)
3. Happy Gilmore
4. Rudy Ruettiger (Rudy)
5. Willy Mays Hayes (Major League)
6. "Crash" Davis (Bull Durham)
7. Joe Kingman (the Game Plan - in the first half when he's still super arrogant)
8. Pedro Cerrano (Major League)
9. Jack Elliot (Mr. Baseball)
10. Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass (Remember the Titans)

[55]

Re: Favorite TV/Movie Athletes?

Assuming we can only choose fictitious characters, here is my list...

1. Rocky Balboa - Seriously, how can he NOT be number one?
2. Roy Hobbs - Could have been the greatest player of ALL TIME.
3. Rick Vaughn - The coolest guy in the history of baseball movies.
4. Steve Lattimer - Starting defense! A place at the table!
5. Crash Davis - All-time minor league HR leader and the best monologue in a sports move ever.
6. Eddie Harris - The Yin to Vaughn's Yang. Are you trying to say that Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?
7. Nuke LaLoosh - Why is he calling me meat? I'm the one driving the Porsche!
8. Scott Howard - Had to have at least one basketball player.
9. Tanner Boyle - 75 pound body, 74 of which is a combination of mouth and heart.
*10. The Hanson Brothers - They may not be the best players, but they'll beat the **** out of you.

* = 3 way tie.

Also, if billiards were considered a "sport" than Eddie Felson would have been #3 on my list.

[~LiverpoolRed~]

Re: Favorite TV/Movie Athletes?

I personally hate the sport of golf but my favorite movie athlete is Ty Webb. Chevy Chase's character in Caddyshack.

[Stroehms]

Re: Favorite TV/Movie Athletes?

1. Crash Davis
2. Roy Hobbs
3. Benny Rodriguez

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Favorite TV/Movie Athletes?

Oh, Scott Howard. Great freakin' call.

Damn, there are a lot of sports-related characters.

[Chrisksaint]

Re: Favorite TV/Movie Athletes?

For me:
1. Bobby Boucher (Waterboy)
2. Tim Riggins (FNL series)
3. Ricky Bobby(Talladega)
4. Happy Gilmore
5. Rod Tidwell (Jerry Maguire)
6. Rick Vaughn
7. Matt Saracen (FNL)

I'm probably missing a few guys as i'm exhausted, but this is a good thread.

[mb625]

Re: Favorite TV/Movie Athletes?

1. Rocky
2. Pedro Cerrano (Major League)
3. Rick Vaughan (Major League)
4. Crash Davis (Bull Durham)
5. Shane Falco (The Replacements)
6. Bobby Boucher (Waterboy)
7. Willie Beamon (Any Given Sunday)
8. Jackie Moon, Ed Monix, Vukidic (Semi-Pro) couldn't choose just one.
9. Steve Lattimer (The Program)
10. Billy Bob (Varsity Blues)
HM: Jonathan Moxon (Varsity Blues), Darnell Jefferson (The Program), Nigel Gruff (The Replacements), Charlie Tweeder (Varsity Blues), Roy Hobbs (The Natural), Danny Bateman (The Replacements)
There were too many good ones for me to choose.

[KingV2k3]

Re: Favorite TV/Movie Athletes?

Great thread!

Don't forget the cast of "North Dallas Forty"...

[Watson]

Mike Wenchell, you got a natural ability for handing Booby the ball. And every now and then, you throw a pretty nice pass, so you gonna eat your jello pudding pops. BWAAAAA

[JayBee74]

Re: Favorite TV/Movie Athletes?

Great thread!

Don't forget the cast of "North Dallas Forty"...

I mostly didn't-I picked Phil Elliott.

[BDKiiing]

Re: Favorite TV/Movie Athletes?

In no particular order...

Pedro Cerano
Mel Clark
Benny Rodriguez
Jarious Evans
Stan Ross
Deacon Moss
Julius Campbell
Crash Davis
Henry Rowengartner
Willy Mays Hays