But let’s be honest, usually the whole movie is not great. Old School is an instant classic, but the second half of the film feels like advanced algebra class. Wedding Crashers should have won an Oscar, but once John and Jeremy Ryan are asked to leave the estate by the Secretary after the “Kentucky Derby” of weddings, it’s just downhill, man.

But there are those select few moments in sports movie history that just scratch me right where I itch. You know the type of scene I’m talking about – the ones you could literally watch over and over again, day after day, repeating the lines verbatim until your friends/parents ask you to keep quiet. It’s those scenes that make the cake. It’s those scenes that we never forget.

It’s those scenes that made the list.

The Top Ten Sports Moments in Movie Histoty:

10. Movie: Naked Gun  Moment: Lt. Frank Drebin as the umpire
Leslie Nielsen was a moon-walking, dust-buster using, early-strike calling umpire who was under cover as he attempted to find the Queen of England’s assassin amongst the ball players. What a great scene.

9. Movie: For Love of the Game Moment: The zone out
This is an awful movie, one that I refuse to ever watch with my fiancée… again. But the scene where Billy Chapel zones out the cheering crowd and all of the other distractions around him to focus in on only the catcher’s mitt is peachy. It was just what the little league coach told you to do.

8. Movie: Bloodsport  Moment: The final fight.
Immersed in the underground life of semi-illegal martial arts, Frank Dux has traveled halfway across the world to fight in the most dangerous martial arts tournament known to man, the Kumite. He gets to the final round against the deadly Chong Li, who is known for killing his opponents. Dux is blinded by Li who throws a special powder in his eyes, but he uses his training to sense the man coming and still wins the battle, and the girl.

7. Movie: Airborne  Moment: The final race scene.
Mitchell Goosen is in for the ride of his life. As two rollerblade gangs square off in a multi-mile, all-terrain rollerblade race through the city streets of Cincinatti, across stairs and around tight turns, it’s the first team to get three players across the finish line that take the title. Goosen executes a ridiculous jump off of a parking garage and crosses the finish line to give his team the victory, earning him acceptance in his new high school.

6. Movie: A League of Their Own  Moment: Anything with Jimmy Dougan
Dougan is the manager of the ladies’ baseball team and refuses to help out, spending most of his time in a drunken stupor on the bench. Having finally noticed something worth yelling about, he rises from the bench and muttered, “There’s no crying in baseball!” and the rest is cinematic history.

5. Movie: Swingers  Moment: The Gretzky head bleed
Just chilling before going out in L.A., the boys are playing NHL ’94, possibly the best video game of all time. Trent Walker (Vince Vaughn) checks Gretzky up high, knocking him onto the ice. He rubs it in to his friend, as Gretzky lies there bleeding profusely from his skull. Classic game, classic moment.

4. Movie: Bull Durham  Moment: Pick you favorite sports scene and it belongs right here.
The meeting at the mound, the scenes on the bus – whatever you want. There are a bunch of great scenes in Bull Durham and nobody in their right sports mind would ever argue with you.

3. Movie: Rudy  Moment: Turning in of the jerseys / Rudy gets in the game
First, player after player enter the coaches office requesting that Rudy Ruettiger play in their starting position in order to get the little guy in the game.

Finally Rudy gets his wish. With just seconds left in the game, #45 enters the game on defense as the crowd erupts into applause. He gets up to the line of scrimmage and sacks the quarterback back as time expires only to be carried off on the shoulders of his adoring teammates.

If Notre Dame tackled anyone this season, they might get similar applause.

2. Movie: Rocky III  Moment: Training scenes / the last fight
As Survivor provides the soundtrack, Rocky prepares for his fight without the use of any sort of modern technology. He runs through the Russian snow, lifts giant boulders and chops wood. Providing a fantastic opposition, Ivan Drago trains in a state-of-the-art facility with scientists and steroids.

Then they get to the fight. Deep in communist Russia, the early rounds are all Drago who just pummels the American. Finally Rocky starts hitting the giant Russian back. He finally cuts him and batters the Russian’s body as he grimaces with pain in the last rounds. Amidst the Russian crowd cheering for Rocky, Drago refers to the American as being like piece of iron. Rocky finally knocks Drago down with an assortment of left hooks, and despite the pleading of his wife and manager, Drago is unable to rise to his feet. I still get chills watching this whole scene.

1. Movie: Necessary Roughness  Moment: The final pass
Down a few points, 40-something, comeback quarterback Paul Blake escapes the pocket in the final seconds of his winless team’s game against the #1 Texas Colts. With the massive LB Flattop charging at him, Blake spots little Charlie Banks in the back of the end zone. He fires the ball at the receiver just as Flattop arrives to squash the quarterback. Out of nowhere, Manumana, the Somoan center, flies in to block Flattop, shattering his helmet and sending him to the turf bleeding from his mouth. Banks catches the touchdown and the Armadillos finally win a game.

And if that wasn’t enough, you’ve got Kathy Ireland and the best theme song in the history of movies.