Flea Flicker's Favorite Football Flicks

The media starts their endless stream of mind-numbing questions for the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks this week. The only bad thing about earning a trip to the Super Bowl is dealing with the stupidity that comes with the big game. While the two teams deal with that stuff, let's look at movies. Football movies.

Here are the Flea Flicker's Fifteen Favorite Football Flicks:

15.  All The Right Moves (1983)
Tom Cruise was even made believable as a cornerback, somewhat.

14.  We Are Marshall (2006)
This is simply a great story.

13.  Rudy (1993)
Some might have this movie at the top of the list. Some might not have it at all.

12.  Any Given Sunday (1999)
When accepted as fiction, it's fun.

11.  The Program (1993)
Ah, college football.

10.  The Express (2008)
This might have been higher if they hadn't made Art Modell the Cleveland Browns owner in the 1950s. Accuracy goes a long ways

9.    Everybody's All-American (1988)
Adapted from Frank Deford's terrific book. This might be the best look at the incredible high's and the incredible low's of football stardom.

8.    Draft Day (2014)
Some of the trades are stretching reality but this is a very well done movie fantasizing an incredibly interesting day.

7.    Brian's Song (1971)
Even non-football fans can smile and cry with this movie.

6.    Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
It's a timeless look at a very important figure in football history.

5.    Paper Lion (1968)
Alan Alda is perfectly cast as the always entertaining George Plimpton.

4.    Heaven Can Wait (1978)
A football remake of Here Come's Mr. Jordan (1941). More romance than football. This is an excellent movie.

3.    Undefeated (2011)
Probably the only movie on the list to take home an Academy Award. Great flick.

2.    Remember The Titans (2000)
All of the actors are terrific. The story is terrific.

1.    Friday Night Lights (2004)
This movie gets top billing because of the television series that director Peter Berg spun off of it. Both are based on the excellent book by Buzz Bissinger. The movie is good. The television series is fantastic.

I have yet to view the recently released When The Game Stands Tall. I'm hoping that it can find it's way onto this list.