Cowboys fans talk BEST football movies EVER made!

Welcome to the Victory Formation Podcast! In this episode, Prescott and Eddie take a break from Cowboys talk to celebrate the best football movies ever made. From gritty realism in Any Given Sunday to the heart of Remember the Titans, we go deep on our all-time favorites. Did your favorite make the list?

🔥 Cowboys fans, NFL junkies, and movie lovers — this one’s for you!

Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro & Cowboys banter
03:00 - Around the League: Dolphins & Steelers trade
08:30 - Why football movies hit different
10:00 - Prescott’s Top 10 Football Movies
25:00 - Eddie’s Top 10 Football Movies
42:00 - Honorable Mentions & Community Callouts

#dallascowboys #footballmovies  #nfl  #top10lists  #victoryformation  #cowboyspodcast  #rememberthetitans #FridayNightLights #anygivensunday  #littlegiants  #footballtalk  #movienight 

Prescott's Top Football Movies:
Any Given Sunday – Realistic portrayal of pro football's gritty side.

Little Giants – Childhood favorite and inspiration for his fantasy football team name.

Remember the Titans – Powerful civil rights message.

The Program – Dark, realistic view of college football.

Concussion – Deep dive into CTE and NFL cover-up.

The Longest Yard (Sandler version) – Underrated guilty pleasure.

The Waterboy – Iconic quotes and nostalgia.

The Blind Side – Story of Michael Oher and the evolution of left tackle importance.

The Longshots – Personal connection to his hometown, Shreveport.

Friday Night Lights – Book-to-film differences; real Texas football experience.

Eddie's Top Football Movies:

Varsity Blues – Texas high school football and iconic scenes.

The Best of Times – Underrated Robin Williams gem.

All the Right Moves – Blue-collar football with Tom Cruise.

Brian's Song – Emotional classic about friendship and loss.

Lucas – Feel-good underdog high school tale.

The Waterboy – Shared love for this comedy.

The Replacements – Strikes, second chances, and Keanu Reeves.

Heaven Can Wait – Fantasy comedy with heart.

Gridiron Gang – A real story of football in youth detention.

Necessary Roughness – Comedy gold with Sinbad, Kathy Ireland, and more.

Honorable Mentions:

Jerry Maguire

Rudy

Draft Day

Invincible

Wildcats

Last Boy Scout

Transcript

Intro 00:00:05  Here I come. Here we go. Here I come. Here we go. Come on. Here we go. Yeah. Yeah. When I fall through a lot. Do not lie. Cause how you walkin with a lion. Got me feelin like Mike. I've been known to wear the team on my back like a biker. Shawty wanna be with a star. But you lucky if I invite you. We can take it to the next spot. They yellin like red sky. Everybody like there ain't no brakes, no rest stop. We tryna get your head shot. The whole club yellin everybody.

Prescott 00:00:36  Here we go, here we go, here we go Victory Formation podcast I'm Prescott and that's Eddie. Eddie say what's up to your fans. All seven of them okay. We gained, we gained some fans. We only had three last week. God for.

Intro 00:00:53  Good.

Prescott 00:00:53  Good afternoon.

Eddie 00:00:54  Good morning. welcome to the podcast, everybody. All seven of you that, Prescott said. I know there's more out there.

Eddie 00:01:02  We just, we are welcoming you to another week of Cowboys football and or lack thereof. Cowboys football.

Prescott 00:01:11  Man. Do we even have any news to talk about? Like nobody signed? Nothing. They didn't sign anybody. Jerry Jones didn't say anything dumb.

Eddie 00:01:20  Well, the Cowboys are still the same, shade of blue. it's still on Arlington. That's it. We have, It's. I think it's the only thing that that really came out this week was just, an announcement of, like, the camp dates and times and stuff like that. That's all on their website.

Prescott 00:01:36  We have something new on our page. Y'all go check it out. I, put up a video top ten Cowboys moments in history that I thought were top ten. I've been fooling around. Put some stuff out there. Go check out the page. It's a five minute video. Not too much time, but it's. It's nostalgic. Like the one I thought about, like I hadn't thought about in a long time, was the Emmitt Smith one where he separated his shoulder and was like, man, I remember watching that game.

Prescott 00:02:00  I feel old now, so I don't want to spoil the good.

Eddie 00:02:07  What, five, five, six minutes of your time?

Prescott 00:02:10  Just five minutes and 20s. So it's a good watch. It's good nostalgia.

Eddie 00:02:14  Yeah. I was going to say it brings back a lot of good, good feelings. There's some some bad feelings too.

Prescott 00:02:21  Like, man, some bad ones. But they they made the cowboys who they are. So like the catch. the other catch Dez Bryant. Romo fumbled snap. I think those are only three bad things that were in there. Other than that.

Eddie 00:02:35  I think that was the point that my ex-wife knew how much of a Cowboys defense.

Prescott 00:02:42  Which one? She's like Romo.

Eddie 00:02:44  Because yeah, because she's like, what? Get up. Well, why are you laying on the ground like that? Are you crying? No, but there's a little these are the questions.

Prescott 00:02:54  There's a little that's like, mommy, Was daddy crying?

Eddie 00:02:57  Yeah. Those are the three. The three questions you get right away.

Eddie 00:03:00  What's wrong with you? Why are you laying down? Are you crying? What's wrong? Oh.

Prescott 00:03:06  Yeah.

Eddie 00:03:06  Like, why is there a Dallas Cowboys jersey out on the on the on the lawn? Don't worry about it. I'll look it up.

Prescott 00:03:11  Yeah. Don't worry about it.

Eddie 00:03:12  Yeah.

Prescott 00:03:14  Those guys anyway. Yeah. But anyway. So that's it. No, no Cowboys news. So you know what? Let's let's circle the league. I know there was some pretty big news.

Eddie 00:03:23  Yeah, yeah. Yesterday it was.

Prescott 00:03:25  News was pretty good.

Eddie 00:03:26  It was a it was a big day. And with some with players moving. Well, we knew that there were waiting to be, but then they pulled trigger. Looks like Pittsburgh, decided to make a trade with with the Dolphins. And they, they brought, the boy over to Pittsburgh. Jalen Ramsey, he got a little bit of a raise, and he used to be making $26 million.

Prescott 00:03:51  26 million. That's why I'm like cowboys stay far away.

Eddie 00:03:55  As a as a saber tooth tiger bro long tooth. And that guy's. Oh I can't believe he's like. But in that in that transaction the the Dolphins actually got Minkah Fitzpatrick back back.

Prescott 00:04:09  Yeah he started there. And they got tired of him. Shipped him out. They actually traded him to Pittsburgh I believe. Yeah. And so now he's back.

Eddie 00:04:15  Got him right back. So I I think that was a pretty good move for the for the Dolphins and for, you know, because they had a player that was unhappy, wasn't happy where he was. They got to get him out of there. They found a good place for him. I think it was a good place for Ramsey to. I mean, he fits in well with with what they're doing. And, you know, they all kind of like they have a revamped defense now kind of to. Yeah.

Prescott 00:04:44  And you forgot about another key part of that trade John Smith. He actually was pretty good for them last year. The tight end is like a throw in.

Prescott 00:04:52  but he was pretty good for them last year for Miami. The only reason I know it's because I picked him up on waiver wire and fantasy, and he gave me. It was like at least a good 3 or 4 games where he was doing very well.

Eddie 00:05:05  What was the stats like? Was he. Was he better than like the average NFL tight end or was.

Prescott 00:05:10  Yes. Yes he was. He was borderline Pro Bowl. So he had man like he was very like he had 88 receptions for eight touchdowns 88 receptions 884 yards. Like before. Before last season, the most he had ever had was 500 yards in the season. And that was for the Falcons.

Eddie 00:05:33  What did Jake have last year Jake Ferguson.

Prescott 00:05:37  Let's see. Jake Ferguson he was 59. Receptions. Zero. He had zero touchdowns last year.

Eddie 00:05:50  Well, I think all of his touch up with the Tolbert is totally out of it.

Prescott 00:05:54  Yeah, totally. It was a was a touchdown merchant. Touchdown, merchant. So it's kind of but

Eddie 00:05:59  But.

Prescott 00:05:59  Yeah. And then wait. And so the the, the dominoes of that happening is now the Dolphins needed a tight end. So they went and got your boy little, little little D the rapper who retired. But now he's back. Darren Waller he was with the Giants.

Eddie 00:06:17  So Darren Waller is a he is a player that I, I really like a lot. And I've liked him too since since the beginning of his career with the Raiders. He has a really, really interesting story. If you guys ever take time to kind of look at.

Prescott 00:06:35  Man.

Eddie 00:06:36  And what he's.

Prescott 00:06:37  People like him do not end up staying in the league pretty.

Eddie 00:06:40  I mean but not not only that. It's like all the people that were that he had surrounding him were, were We're also pulling him down, pulling him back. And like, he had to change his whole life. And a lot of people just don't do that, right? People don't just change everything about themselves. So, you know, that was a a really good story.

Eddie 00:07:03  And him coming back when I read that, I was like, oh, that's so awesome. But when I read that he had retired, I was like, oh, that's, that's too bad. I was really talented.

Prescott 00:07:13  So for a two year stretch, he was like top three tight end, like one year he had 90 catches for 1100 yards. The next year he had 107 catches for 1100 yards and nine touchdowns. So for two years he was legit.

Eddie 00:07:27  I can understand the Giants not you know trading in in between the the you know NFC East league. But I would have been happy if if, if we brought Waller on for a seventh round pick and we get a sixth back at him.

Prescott 00:07:45  Yeah. I mean I wonder if he has a connection on that training staff, because most players who come out of retirement, it's because somebody convinced them like, hey man, you don't want to come back out. It's because it's an old coach or an old strength coach that he liked. So I wonder if someone in Miami like, knows him personally.

Prescott 00:08:03  He's like, hey, we could just come out of retirement.

Eddie 00:08:05  I'm sure that they were. I'm sure that the the bug was itching them all year. Yeah. And he's not going to come back. He didn't want to go back.

Prescott 00:08:14  Records, right. Man, he wasn't selling records, so he had to come back. Yeah.

Eddie 00:08:19  Anyway, I don't know.

Prescott 00:08:20  All right, so that's that's it. We went through all the news. What else are we going to do for the next 30 minutes? Well, we got any ideas?

Eddie 00:08:29  We came up with a kind of an idea to talk about, you know, what are your what is your favorite football movie? We were talking about that and we started going through him, and I was like, you know, if you think about it in the in the back of my head and say, oh, there's not that. Not many football movies, but if you pull them up, there is a.

Prescott 00:08:52  Crap ton of football.

Eddie 00:08:53  Football movie and and I'm like, oh my God, I remember I can't even why didn't I think of this? Why didn't I think it? So we both came up with an idea of each of us giving our top ten football movies that, that in our lives and, and kind of talk a little bit about what's, what's so special, you know.

Eddie 00:09:16  Yeah. What, what what happened at that time to where did you see it or why why is it so special? So, so and so I'm going to I'm going to go ahead and let you go first Prescott. And tell tell us what you feel is the best football movie, whether it be NFL, college, high school, little, little peewee, whatever.

Prescott 00:09:39  And so so I didn't rank them like 10 to 1. I just picked ten because they all mean something different. So I'm gonna read mine, but they're not in any specific, specific order. Like if I read.

Eddie 00:09:51  This, I'll tell you.

Prescott 00:09:52  This right now.

Eddie 00:09:53  Before you even say that the that movie that you said it was probably the best movie that I had ever seen at that exact moment. You know what I mean? That that's how I felt that each one of them. Yeah, that's why I kept.

Prescott 00:10:04  These are good. So let's go down the list. First up, any given Sunday. My name is Willy.

Prescott 00:10:11  Willy Beeman. I keep the ladies screaming anyway.

Eddie 00:10:17  Screaming.

Prescott 00:10:19  But that to me, to me, this was the most. Even though it had a lot of ridiculous things in it. This was the most realistic football movie to me to like. That showed the inside of how things really are. People doing coke in the bathroom, players fighting coke, like when when it was cussing out the coach, he's like, man, shut the f fuck you up. You're an Offensive coordinator. And I'm like, I'm pretty sure that, like, I don't get my touches. I don't get my pay. And the thing was Shak, he, he probably could end his life with like, nah, I need that million dollars. Shoot me up with some stuff. a shot man. So I can get that side.

Eddie 00:10:56  I did a really good job of showing you the how, how dark. Professional. Yeah.

Prescott 00:11:03  Right. Yeah. I don't know if you remember, is a TV show that came on ESPN.

Prescott 00:11:08  That was the most realistic one. And was it Game breakers? Ice breakers?

Eddie 00:11:15  It was a TV show.

Prescott 00:11:16  Yeah, it came on ESPN and it only had one season.

Eddie 00:11:20  It was so good. You're not talking about the HBO one, I think. No, no, no.

Prescott 00:11:24  It came on. It came on ESPN. I'm telling you.

Eddie 00:11:29  Because it because the R was broke off of a football show on HBO. That was a realistic show.

Prescott 00:11:36  Playmakers. That's the name of it. It was called playmakers.

Eddie 00:11:39  Playmakers.

Prescott 00:11:40  And it came on ESPN and it came out for one season. And it was so realistic talking about concussions and all that, the NFL told them, you cannot show this show anymore if you want to have an NFL contract. So even though it was a great show, it came out in 2003. So even though it was a great show. even though it was a great show, they couldn't play it anymore because it was just too realistic and the ESPN didn't want all the bad stuff showing, and that's what they give me.

Eddie 00:12:10  You know, any given Sunday did like the reason why I felt like that movie was one of the best is that that was the first movie to show you what it feels like to play like the field in the middle. In the middle of the of a play. I got to be honest. Everybody here that is listening to me, that has played football or even sports in general. Sometimes it all coincides, but in football I've never experienced anything like I do. Like when you have the ball, the sound goes away and all you. Here is your breathing. And then you hear everybody else's breathing. Everything is like in slow motion. And then as soon as the whistle blows, everything speeds up, like. And it's just loud. And then also you hear every sound. Oh it's crazy. And that movie was the first movie to kind of portray that in like in a long scene. And I remember watching it and I kind of, I got anxiety when I was watching it for the first time because I was like, oh my God, like I was it put me right back into this, my cleats.

Eddie 00:13:22  Not, you know, so it amazingly made.

Prescott 00:13:25  It in the theater too. It was it was really good in the theater. All right.

Eddie 00:13:28  Some of the best halftime speeches, right?

Prescott 00:13:30  Oh, man. Gotta get an inch. Anyway, my next one, Little Giants. Spike. Don't care. Spike, don't play with girls. That was a good movie, man. Even though it was, it was cheesy and like, if it if I watch it now, I'll be like, I can't believe I like this movie, but it it brings back fond memories. Man, I like that girl. I'm gonna score a touchdown.

Prescott 00:13:54  I'm gonna score a touchdown.

Eddie 00:13:55  You know why it's special to me is that, John Madden's son coached our freshman football team on my high school team, and I swear on everything to this day, I know he knew about the fumble is an older play from the back, from the back in the day. But the year before that movie came out, we ran the fumble Ruski in high school and won a playoff game with it.

Eddie 00:14:21  And then and then the following year, the annexation of Puerto Rico was on the Little Giants. I swear to God, I'm gonna go to my grave with this. But.

Prescott 00:14:32  But that was the name of my fantasy football team for a long time, The annexation of Puerto Rico.

Eddie 00:14:38  Yeah.

Prescott 00:14:39  Yeah, man. All right, next one. Remember the Titans. Ooh! Denzel. All the all the missed stuff. Like, the only thing I would say that movie was fake about was they had grown men playing high school kids. It's like, come on, man. Avon Barksdale from, The Wire was on there. He's like, he's 37 years old. Like he's playing a 18 year old.

Eddie 00:15:02  Hey, but they look right. They look older back then. But I gotta.

Prescott 00:15:06  Get sunshine, man. That was crazy. The big dude just wanted to hit somebody, play football. I know he wasn't getting a scholarship, but he got to be out there. Oh, man. Ref, those are some good characters.

Prescott 00:15:18  A good story, it actually had a good story behind it.

Eddie 00:15:21  I told I told my kids the other day because they not the other day. We're talking about stuff and you know what's going on in the world and civil rights and everything. And I go, you know that movie? Remember the Titans. That that is should be something that's shown in school. Yeah.

Prescott 00:15:37  In schools.

Eddie 00:15:38  Yeah. It is a absolutely amazing way to portray what I mean. It's scary and sad and to see what people had to go through back then, not at the school but like it's a it's an amazing movie. That was it. They were able to tell it with a football story. Yeah.

Prescott 00:15:59  I loved it.

Eddie 00:15:59  All right. That battle, a Battle of Gettysburg speech with the man.

Prescott 00:16:04  Who.

Eddie 00:16:05  Feels right now.

Prescott 00:16:06  He can. Man, man. He can act a little bit. That Denzel guy. he's pretty good. The, the next one, the program. You remember that one?

Eddie 00:16:19  I love the program.

Eddie 00:16:22  Man, I bet.

Prescott 00:16:23  That that movie was very good. Like, that movie was also very realistic on a on a college level as to what goes on behind the scenes, like what they want to do to win. And my and my. If I hadn't married my wife, I would have married Halle Berry. She was in it. And so.

Eddie 00:16:41  She was.

Prescott 00:16:42  A man.

Eddie 00:16:43  You know what's crazy? There's two things about that movie. I my I was a junior in high school when it came out, and we were we were playing a big team, and our coach took us to go see that movie. as a team. So. And we went and saw it, and it was the version that they you can't see that version anymore. It had the, the. Yeah, they were laying in the street and watching the cars flying right by him. And they had to cut that.

Prescott 00:17:13  Scene because they knew dumb kids would try it. So they had to cut it out.

Eddie 00:17:16  Yeah, exactly.

Eddie 00:17:17  And then, the other thing is, you know, when I was in high school, there was a, there was a kid that showed up to to our locker room on game day with his face painted, with a skull. Oh, yeah. It was just. It was about a year after this movie came out, and he came into the locker room and we all looked at him and we were all like, we didn't want to say anything, but we all. He went and watched it off real quick. About 20 minutes later.

Prescott 00:17:45  My my favorite football scene is in that movie where the guy who was definitely going to the NFL, who messed his leg up. they were they were like, like, testing him while he was watching films. Like. All right. When when we call Robert, what do you do? I hit him so hard, his girlfriend dies. Like, man, that that scene was one of the best scenes. Like, he was going through it. He was saying it was such a serious face.

Prescott 00:18:09  Once you wash it, you gotta.

Eddie 00:18:10  You gotta you gotta preface this with the scene right before it, right? Because he was right before it. He was sitting there with his, tutor, or he was sitting in class and his teacher kept saying, come on, I need you to study. You got to know, you got to get.

Prescott 00:18:24  And he.

Eddie 00:18:24  Couldn't.

Prescott 00:18:24  Fail.

Eddie 00:18:25  And then then his tutor is sitting there just thrilling him and he's like, come on, you got to get this. And he's like, I just don't know. And he's like standing close. But then all of a sudden he shows up in practice and he's like, he knows.

Prescott 00:18:37  And then he's like a football genius. Yeah. He's like, yeah, he got it down, man. It was amazing. All right. So the next one a lot of people don't have it. Like I haven't really watched it but I liked it. Concussion with Will Smith. He's another pretty good guy actor. But I don't know if y'all familiar with it, but it's the true story of the African doctor who discovered CTE, the plaque on the brain.

Prescott 00:19:03  And for the longest time, somebody predicted that somebody who was not affiliated with football was going to figure this out because the NFL, that's that's the dark side of NFL. They go through a lot to push this under the rug to make sure it's not a big thing to, you know, push down studies. But this movie brought it to the forefront to where even junior say, y'all, like when he shot himself in the chest so they could study his brain. Because he said, I want you to check out my CTE. But concussion was a very powerful movie. Tell the truth. Tell the truth. I remember that.

Eddie 00:19:38  I never watched it. I never watched it. you know, I think I was going to. But it just it was too real.

Prescott 00:19:44  It's. Yeah. You know, it's it's really good.

Eddie 00:19:46  It's really like a a toothache. And I know I need to go see the doc, the dentist, but I'm not going to see it. Yeah. You should watch it.

Prescott 00:19:54  You should watch it. go, eat a couple of edibles and watch it, man. You like it? Yeah. But, All right. Next. This one is my guilty pleasure. It's not, like, one of the best movies, but I like watching it. The longest yard, but not the first. Longest yard. The one with, Chris Rock. Adam sandler. Tracy Morgan, that longest yard. Oh, I really like that. A lot of people hate it. A lot of people hate it. So when I was doing my research.

Eddie 00:20:26  Said Adam Sandler. Nobody gives Adam Sandler movies any other dude. They're always good.

Prescott 00:20:31  And I got two Adam Sandler movies on this list. But anyway, and.

Eddie 00:20:35  And the fact that he was in the. They had a, you know, a lot of wrestlers in that movie scene, which is really cool. Yeah.

Prescott 00:20:41  He did a lot of them. I like that big, like Palestinian looking guy that they had to go deep in the basement to get the psycho guy.

Eddie 00:20:49  It's like.

Prescott 00:20:50  Promise, I promise I won't stab you.

Eddie 00:20:54  Yeah, the the best one was, Terry and Terry.

Prescott 00:20:59  Oh, Terry.

Eddie 00:20:59  Crews. Terry crews. I was pulling up.

Prescott 00:21:07  Steve Austin was in there. Nelly was in there, man. There's a lot of people in that movie, man.

Eddie 00:21:11  Oh, where the where the fucking x where the the. He didn't even wear a number. He wore Roman.

Prescott 00:21:19  Yeah. And then, I would say my next one is another Adam Sandler movie, The Waterboy. That one was an excellent football movie that gave everybody so many, so many good lines. What better sucks? You can do it all kind of stuff, man. That that movie was, was that that was another guilty pleasure between The Longest Yard and.

Eddie 00:21:44  No, no, no. Now we're gonna fight because that wasn't on your list for all that. No.

Prescott 00:21:50  That's totally.

Eddie 00:21:50  Oh, that's on my list.

Prescott 00:21:52  So that's why I had it on my my, my honorable mentions.

Prescott 00:21:55  I meant to put it on that list so you can have a.

Eddie 00:21:59  Wasn't even on your take offs either, but.

Prescott 00:22:03  So I should have put it there. Why not delete anyway? Next. Okay. I'm gonna keep going. Before we run out of time. Next one is the blind side with the eight Sandra Bullock. That's my. That's my crush. I've been having a crush on her since speed with Keanu Reeves. I love this.

Eddie 00:22:22  Little Miss Congeniality. Oh, maybe after that movie, she. But, yeah, she's she's not quite.

Prescott 00:22:28  Sandra Bullock but I like that one. Y'all don't know. That's the one where it actually was rooted in in in history because they the guy who wrote the book. It's a really good read. He broke down about how.

Eddie 00:22:40  The reason why Taylor get paid.

Prescott 00:22:42  Yeah, because Lawrence Taylor was such a menace when he came to the league. Back in the day, left tackles weren't the best athletes. They were just lumbering big guys on the left and right tackle for Lawrence Taylor was so fast, so menacing that they had to change the way they draft left tackles.

Prescott 00:22:57  Now you get former basketball players with good feet because Lawrence Taylor destroyed the league, and that's when this guy came in. He was just like like worlds beyond in in, in in high school, even though he didn't turn out to be a, you know, all World Hall of Fame and NFL back in high school. He was good. And then the story was good too. And so that's how they they made it into a movie. But. But it was a pretty good movie.

Eddie 00:23:22  True, true. That that line that they say, when she says, I always pay my mortgage first, and then I pay my insurance guy no matter what. Right. So that that means that you pay your quarterback and you pay your left back. That's what you do.

Prescott 00:23:40  All right. My last one. It's a little, little known movie. A lot of people don't know this one. It's called the Long Shots. So this and the reason why this is important is because they filmed from. Yeah.

Prescott 00:23:57  The Ice Cube movie with Keke Palmer, with Keke Palmer, where she was the first girl peewee football player that took the team all the way to the whatever they have championship. I don't know what they call it the the Super Bowl. And she wanted it was the first girl that did it and he was the coach. But what's crazy is they filmed it in like I grew up in Shreveport. They named the city in the movie Minden, Illinois. But it's a little city outside of Shreveport called Minden. So they use all the Minden stuff, like the Minden.

Eddie 00:24:28  Store.

Prescott 00:24:29  On the water. Yeah, so they can use all the signage. But it was based in Minden, Illinois, which is not a real place. And so the place I used to play basketball at, it's a Christian school, and I used to go there on Wednesday nights and play was where they filmed all the football scenes, and then they filmed all the town stuff in Minden.

Eddie 00:24:46  Yeah. Were you there when they were filming it?

Prescott 00:24:49  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I lived there when they filmed it.

Eddie 00:24:51  Did you get to see anybody?

Prescott 00:24:53  No. I'm sorry. I was not living there. My brother was living there. I moved in 2005. They. They filmed it like in 2006 or 2007, so I just left. But. But I used to go back and and, and, visit. But anyway. But that's my top ten and then I'll do a quick run through of my honorable mentions. I had Jerry Maguire, Rudy and I left draft on my top ten. I meant to put it on my honorable mention, but that's. That was my honorable mention. I just realized I messed that up. But Jerry Maguire, Rudy and Draft, those are my three honorable mentions. So let me go through it again. Any given Sunday little giants. Remember the Titans, the program. Concussion, the longest yard waterboy I skipped one, the blind side, the longshots. I skipped one Friday Night Lights. That was in my top ten. Friday Night Lights.

Eddie 00:25:45  That's the one that I had for you before.

Prescott 00:25:48  But yeah, that is I. I read that book and like, the as good as the movie is, the book does not do it. Just like the movie doesn't do the book justice. The book is top shelf. The the movie is great, but the book is top shelf. They go in so much detail about stuff that was going on at the time, and all of it's true. The guy lived with the team for the entire year, which sucked because he was he was with the team the year before they won state championship. So they lost to Dallas Carter. Like, yeah, because in the movie it's the state championship. But in real life it was the game before the state championship and the state was with them. Now that.

Eddie 00:26:29  Dallas.

Prescott 00:26:30  Carter in the book yeah, yeah, against it was a game.

Eddie 00:26:33  In Indiana. They played Dallas Carter in the in the chips. If they lost the chip.

Prescott 00:26:37  And then the next year is when they won the championship. The, the the year before it was the state semis that that that they lost to Dallas Carter.

Prescott 00:26:46  And then and then Dallas Carter went on to to win the next game. That was the only thing that was like very, very wrong in the movie. Other than that, everything else was was pretty good. Boobie Miles, all of that, all the characters matched up pretty good with the book.

Eddie 00:27:04  And another amazing habitat.

Prescott 00:27:07  It is.

Eddie 00:27:07  Another.

Prescott 00:27:08  I actually met a guy that was in that movie too. He was he he was a he was a coach, but he was an extra in the halftime scene. They shot it in Houston at the Astrodome. And, Yeah, and they.

Eddie 00:27:24  Shot that game. And the astronaut.

Prescott 00:27:25  Yeah, yeah. And they shot it in the the locker room. And the guy I know personally, he was one of the coaches at halftime who got so mad, he just went and knocked everything off the table like a big water jug. And he's so mad. He's like, y'all are really effing. And he just threw everything off. And that was his one role.

Prescott 00:27:41  That's great. And that was a guy I actually knew personally. But yeah, other than that.

Eddie 00:27:44  That was crazy about that. is there boobie Miles is peppered throughout that in the coaching staff? Yeah. Did you know that?

Prescott 00:27:51  Yeah, he's a real one, right?

Eddie 00:27:54  Yeah. The real.

Prescott 00:27:55  Yeah. I did read that.

Eddie 00:27:57  That that halftime speech. I always remembered that. I don't think it was in the book that he actually read that. Like he says that. But in the movie, when he said the halftime speech, when he said.

Prescott 00:28:10  It's definitely not, That's definitely.

Eddie 00:28:12  30 minutes. 30 minutes for the next 30 years of your life is. I mean, for people that never have played sports or football or they kind of sport, they laugh at that, that go, yeah, okay. Okay, buddy, whatever you say. But I mean, it literally is like that. You feel it for the rest of your life. You'll talk about it for the rest of your life.

Prescott 00:28:35  So because it's crazy how much you because like take football example for example. I'm a referee. We've been doing spring scrimmages already. So you start in May and June and then you go through summer and and then back in our day, there were two days. They were all that throwing up in the summer heat, playing those games, lifting weights, doing all that. And then you go all the way and say you good enough to get to that final thing. It's like, man, all that work for months and months and months. It's boiled down to 30 minutes of your life and you're like, and it all requires how much effort you give. Do you run the play right? Do you execute? And that's why I was like, man, 30 minutes for the 30 years is perfect because man, that's short amount of time because you'll be 50 years old. You still remember that high school state championship game?

Eddie 00:29:24  It's like it's still remember what the locker room smells like. I still remember what what the feelings were like playing.

Prescott 00:29:31  With these people.

Eddie 00:29:32  Putting on your putting on a shirt that you've worn, that you've sweat sweated in seven days in a row, putting it on again when it's all stiff and oh.

Prescott 00:29:41  Yeah.

Eddie 00:29:42  You'll never it's not another.

Prescott 00:29:43  It's a less, it's a less intense military because of course, nothing compared to the military. But it's like the same thing. You're going through boot camp, you're side by man. You could be side by side with somebody you can't stand. But once you get on that field, y'all brothers, man, you working for a common goal. So.

Eddie 00:30:02  Let me go through my ten. I know we're a little bit long here, but this I think this is fun. This is a good set. And I mean, if you get at least if you even get one movie out of this that you get to watch that you've never seen before. It's worth it, right? So, mine goes first one is Varsity Blues. Now Varsity Blues, kind of changed a lot of people's lives when they were young because we got to see the very first the iconic whipped cream bikini.

Eddie 00:30:32  we all know, but that movie was, was West Texas football. I mean, that was that was Texas high school football. And his best, Alley lager was one of the hottest chicks in the world at that moment.

Prescott 00:30:47  Oh, my.

Eddie 00:30:47  Gosh. And, you know, the guys that starred in it, too, were some of the biggest stars in the world at the moment, too. So it was such a good, fun movie filled with drama and everything.

Prescott 00:31:00  James Vanderbeek from Dawson's Creek. I remember that guy.

Eddie 00:31:04  Yeah.

Prescott 00:31:04  Paul Walker was in that movie. It's crazy.

Eddie 00:31:08  I mean, there were so many.

Prescott 00:31:11  Yeah.

Eddie 00:31:13  But my second movie. It might not be something that any anybody really knows about, but this is something that is one of my favorite football movies. If you get a chance to go and watch this movie, you'll you'll thank me. It's called The Best of Times. And this was a movie that was made, I think, in the late 80s. it was shown to us my freshman year.

Eddie 00:31:37  I think we had to buy that week. So the coaches thought it would be cool to show us a movie or something. And they showed us that we watched this movie as a team. And I remember thinking how inappropriate was at first. You know, they'll show this like 14 year old kids, but oh my God, the movie was so it has Robin Williams and and Kurt,

Prescott 00:31:58  Kurt.

Eddie 00:31:58  Russell Russell. And it's about a high school team that Loses their championship game when they're in when they're in high school. And then when they get older in life, you know, they're 30, 40 years old that they actually play the game again. And it it's it's freaking hilarious and funny. And Robin Williams is everything in it.

Prescott 00:32:22  So I've had to watch it. I I've never seen this. I mean it's.

Eddie 00:32:27  It's so such good. I'm getting chills thinking about okay, so the next movie is another one that maybe might be off the beaten path, but a lot of people need to see this.

Eddie 00:32:39  This movie is called All the Right Moves. The Tom cruise. This was a movie about high school football in Pittsburgh, and the blue collar, players and the blue collar families that were going through, you know, was really dramatic. you know, families losing jobs and, you know, all all well, all that comes into trying to focus on being the best football player that you can be for high school. the coach was iconic. It was, have you ever seen the the show coach or.

Prescott 00:33:16  Oh, yeah. Yeah, the guy coach.

Eddie 00:33:18  It was him. Yeah. but, one of the scenes in this movie is really pulls on my heartstrings. It was a a high school party. And, you know, the the football players are all sitting around talking with the cheerleaders and everybody. And Tom cruise stands up and he's drunk and he's talking to these guys, and he's like, he starts talking about the day that God created man, and he's breaking it all the way down. And then he gets like fifth day.

Eddie 00:33:48  He's like. And then on the fifth day, God made cheer and cheerleader was beautiful. And then and then on the sixth day, he created the football player and he said, and people paid money to see him hurt. And then he's like. And then on the seventh day they played football. And like the way that Tom cruise says this, like, I'm kind of getting choked up right now because, I mean, it is so like emotional when he says that. I remember watching it for the first time with my dad, and, I mean, my dad was like that. I looked over at my dad when it was happening and he had tears in his eyes. Yeah, pretty freaking good movie. So you got to check it out really good. next one is Brian's Song, another one that will pull on your heartstrings more than any of these movies that.

Prescott 00:34:42  You've been on there.

Eddie 00:34:44  you almost did what you saw. It was something that a lot of us, you know, older guys have seen this movie.

Eddie 00:34:53  It was about Gale Sayers and, and Brian, picked a piccolo.

Prescott 00:34:59  Hello, piccolo.

Eddie 00:34:59  Yeah. And the relationship that they had, Brian Piccolo had, cancer. he was he got drafted. he worked really hard, and he was competing with Gale Sayers to, for the for that starting position with the bears and the relationship that they, that they made and everything that they went through and sacrificed.

Prescott 00:35:21  Saying about this movie, is it like, I don't know if you guys remember, but back in the day, like before we had streaming like Netflix, Hulu, we used to have things that were literally labeled TV movies, and these are movies that went straight to TV because they felt it wasn't good enough to go to the theaters. So they'd make they'd be like, oh, it's a TV movie. So like whenever you heard that in the 80s and 90s, then you knew that, oh, it's a ho hum.

Eddie 00:35:47  It's like an after school movie.

Prescott 00:35:49  Yeah, exactly. And so this was a TV movie that just blew, blew up like it never made it to the theaters.

Prescott 00:35:56  But it was it was pretty good.

Eddie 00:35:58  James Caan was. He starred as Brian Piccolo. That was really good. Really good. actor. the next movie. I don't know if a lot of people have heard this movie either, but this was one of my favorite movies when I was younger. But Lucas did. Have you ever seen Lucas?

Prescott 00:36:12  Corey have not seen them.

Eddie 00:36:14  Okay, so this is about a high school kid. He's kind of a nerd. he's an outcast. He doesn't have a lot of friends. he decides to try out for the football team to, you know, to. Because there's the the new girl that got there. She's a cheerleader. The. And she starts showing attention to the quarterback. And the quarterback is he's Charlie Sheen and he actually is he kind of takes Lucas under his wing. Lucas is played by Corey Haim. And it's just a it's just a feel good. you know, growing up a movie that is. I mean, you'll you'll laugh, you'll you'll cry, you'll You know, laugh again.

Eddie 00:36:57  there's a point in this movie where, he sneaks onto the field and his coach is so pissed off that he snuck on the field, and he's the only one open at the end of the gates, waving his arms in the in the in the endzone. And everybody, even in the stands, they're like, all pointing to Lucas like that. And the coach yells to the quarterback, don't throw it to Lucas. So funny. my next one is, The Waterboy. I mean, you talked about it.

Prescott 00:37:29  yeah.

Eddie 00:37:30  Adam Sandler.

Prescott 00:37:30  Told it.

Eddie 00:37:31  From you. Freaking amazing. next one is the replacements again. Oh, man. with a comedy feel. Keanu Reeves can't go wrong with him. there's a the the love interest in that movie. I still don't know who she is, but I. My God, I was in love with her. You love her? Yeah.

Prescott 00:37:53  I don't know, That is.

Eddie 00:37:54  A real good movie.

Prescott 00:37:56  Really good movie. That was. I was close to putting that on my list too.

Eddie 00:38:00  It's about an about, a fictional NFL, like, league that goes into a, today. All the players are striking. So there's a strike because of that. And then the NFL owners are like, what are we going to do? So they bring on replacements like they just say they advertise for just the everyday Joe to come.

Prescott 00:38:23  Yeah.

Eddie 00:38:24  And it really did happen back in 84. When did these guys. Could you imagine like it was like you get this this letter in the mail was like, hey, do you want to try out for the Arizona Cardinals? And you go and you're all the crazy.

Prescott 00:38:36  That that happen.

Prescott 00:38:38  That happened today is like Dak and City are are are on strike. And so like I'll show up like man I can catch this ball.

Eddie 00:38:45  And the thing about it was this movie was like these guys show up. And then the NFL players were all in the parking lot, all pissed off of them from.

Prescott 00:38:52  Flipping cars and all kind of stuff. Yeah.

Eddie 00:38:55  and then, sorry.

Eddie 00:38:56  The next one is Heaven Can Wait. I don't know if you know that. There. This is a movie that was remade as well. So there is a newer version of this. But the first, the older version is really what I was talking about. this is a movie about, a la Rams quarterback that actually accidentally passes away, goes to heaven, and he he's not ready yet. He wants to go back and he wants to play. And he convinces God who's played by, who I don't it's not Bob Hope. It's Warren Beatty, the famous older guy. Warren Beatty I don't think it's Warren Beatty. It's somebody else. I'll get it for you. But, he convinces him to send him back, so he goes back down to play as an angel. But it's a good movie. next one is Gridiron Gang. have.

Prescott 00:39:49  You seen it? I remember that, yeah. I like that one.

Eddie 00:39:51  Well, the Rock. The Rock is one of my favorite characters in all of all of cinema.

Eddie 00:39:57  Gridiron gang was good. It's about, a prison, boys prison. That. Is that actually allowed? a would create a football team because they they figured that, you know, instead of you having regular jobs in there, you know, football is something that's going to teach you morals and and the things that you need in life. And they created it. And, it was it's a real story, a true story.

Prescott 00:40:24  Your boy was in there. Exhibit.

Eddie 00:40:27  exhibit. He was. He was kind of a different character in that movie. He was my first movie.

Prescott 00:40:33  I like my team, man. My team.

Eddie 00:40:36  And then finally, the last one I figured was, was a movie that I love from my childhood was called Necessary Roughness.

Prescott 00:40:44  I just want to say, man, if you hadn't said it, I was going to say that next because I almost put it on the list.

Eddie 00:40:50  It's such a good movie. It's a comedy about a, a college, a small college in Texas that it just can't find a way to win.

Eddie 00:41:00  And they they recruit a really older, quarterback. And, I mean, he's older than the coaches and the teachers, and it's just the the shenanigans that they get through. The one of the one of the great characters in that movie, Sinbad is in that movie.

Prescott 00:41:17  Sinbad is in there many Evander Holyfield is in this movie.

Eddie 00:41:20  It's crazy. There's so many Jason.

Prescott 00:41:23  Bateman, Rob Schneider, there's a lot of people in.

Eddie 00:41:25  Here that's such a good guy. It's really good. also the, the introduction of Kathy Ireland. Oh, okay. I don't know who Kathy Ireland is. She was she starred in a lot of, Sports Illustrated swimsuit editions. Yeah. And she, she actually was, a kicker on the team and nobody wanted her on the team and she ended up winning the game. Oh, you need a spoiler. Spoiler. And then. So there's this. I only have a couple of honorable mentions. I know we're running real long. I had, the last Boy scout.

Eddie 00:42:01  Check it out. Really good. Good, good. Top football movie. Invincible. I know it's about the Eagles. The Eagles, but, Mark Wahlberg did a one.

Prescott 00:42:12  It's good man. Man.

Eddie 00:42:13  I like such a good movie. Again, this is another, the the general public gets to try out for the team and make it and become a hero. And then the last one that I had was something from my childhood called Wild Cats with the. With Goldie Hawn. awesome high school football movie. funny comedy. A mom has to take over, coaching the high school team. She has no idea what to do. She doesn't even know anything about football. And, the Characters.

Prescott 00:42:46  Wesley Snipes is in there. Woody Harrelson is in there.

Eddie 00:42:49  Tim Harrelson and there's one of those. His first. My God, if he's not high the whole time in that movie. There's also this other, this one part that you'll you'll laugh your butt off is when the the cheerleaders are kind of kind of, you know, they're they're in like an inner city area.

Eddie 00:43:07  So they don't have like, the regular rah rah cheerleaders. They have like these ghetto cheerleaders and they're like talking. They're like really talking to the other team. And then the other team's like, oh my God, you got to watch this. Really? Really.

Prescott 00:43:22  Yeah. Anyway, but that's, we thought we'd do that in the dead season if if not if next week we'll do we'll try to pick more sports movies. We just did football, but there was so many. We tried to do sports movies at first, but I didn't realize how many sports movies there are. Just just look at the football ones. Like there's so many. It's so hard to pick in.

Eddie 00:43:41  I have two more pages full of football movies that we had, movies that I didn't even know. But this was fun. I really like this because it's passionate. I'm passionate about these.

Prescott 00:43:51  Yeah. So yeah. Get in there. Tell us your favorite football movie and we'll start.

Eddie 00:43:56  Tell us about anything that we might have forgotten or.

Prescott 00:43:59  Yeah, we need to rewatch.

Eddie 00:44:01  Lines, the favorite favorite lines or one liners from the movies too, because I love it.

Prescott 00:44:07  I love it too. Anyway, so that's how we'll end it right there. Y'all keep it classy, Eddie. Tell the people. Bye, man. So we can head on now.

Eddie 00:44:15  Yeah.

Prescott 00:44:16  You know, we didn't know.

Eddie 00:44:17  You know how it is. So make sure that you're telling your kids and your loved ones you love them because you might not get another chance. We love you. Can't wait to see you till next year. Next week.

Prescott 00:44:28  Say, man, I'll be back here next week. He might be back next year, but I'll miss you guys too much. But that's how we'll end it. Sports movies. They're the best. Keep you entertained, football. So we'll see ya next week.

Prescott 00:44:40  I'll holla