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NFL Network To Air Movies Now??

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

From time to time, cable sports networks like ESPN (specifically ESPN Classic) may air movies. Others like MLB Network regularly air feature films, usually revolving around baseball.

So recently, NFL Network was doing a poll over which was the greatest football movie of all-time. They've even done interviews with stars of said football movies. I can't help but think the next logical step is NFL Network actually airing said football movies on their air. Sad, but I guess you can only run the same "Top 10" and "Sound FX" reruns so many times before viewers tire of them. Sigh.
 
I share your apprehension, with one caveat - back in 1968, for the 40th anniversary of the Heidi Game, NFLN aired that movie, and then interrupted the end to show the end of the football game. Steve Sabol, God rest his soul, had a terrific sense of the absurd.
 
IMHO: Baseball is really a better source for movies than football. About the only football movie that can be considered a classic is "Knute Rockne: All American."
 
FredLeonard said:
IMHO: Baseball is really a better source for movies than football. About the only football movie that can be considered a classic is "Knute Rockne: All American."
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Um...

All the Right Moves
Any Given Sunday
The Blind Side
Brian's Song
The Express
Friday Night Lights
Invincible
The Longest Yard (1974)
Lucas
North Dallas Forty
The Program
Radio
Remember the Titans
The Replacements
Rudy
Varsity Blues
The Waterboy
We Are Marshall
 
Just got finished watching "Semi Pro" starring Burt Reynolds.
 
AKA said:
FredLeonard said:
IMHO: Baseball is really a better source for movies than football.  About the only football movie that can be considered a classic is "Knute Rockne: All American." 
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Um...

All the Right Moves
Any Given Sunday
The Blind Side
Brian's Song
The Express
Friday Night Lights
Invincible
The Longest Yard (1974)
Lucas
North Dallas Forty
The Program
Radio
Remember the Titans
The Replacements
Rudy
Varsity Blues
The Waterboy
We Are Marshall
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Without intending to repeat some of that list, I just wanted to say "Google is your friend!"
Type "Football movies" and this is the first thing that pops up:
http://www.sportsinmovies.com/football-movies.asp
 
There's only so much programming that's topical to a single sports format that runs 24/7.

There are too many channels with narrow topics.
 
nomadcowatbk said:
time to revive Scared Straight
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A&E has already done that - Beyond Scared Straight

Back on topic, what NFL Network REALLY should be doing is putting NFL Classics on the RedZone channel UNCUT & UNBUTCHERED during the offeason & adding version of NFL RedZone to Saturdays during football season to supplement ESPN Goal Line since they seem content on using that channel to feature games primarily on the ESPN family of network & TOTALLY IGNORING those broadcast on other networks (Besides FSN & the ACC Network) & ANYTHING that smells of FCS action

Sorry but the movies just don't belong on the sports channels. Let ESPN Classic air those

JMO.....

Cheers & 73 ;D
 
AKA said:
FredLeonard said:
IMHO: Baseball is really a better source for movies than football. About the only football movie that can be considered a classic is "Knute Rockne: All American."
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Um...

All the Right Moves
Any Given Sunday
The Blind Side
Brian's Song
The Express
Friday Night Lights
Invincible
The Longest Yard (1974)
Lucas
North Dallas Forty
The Program
Radio
Remember the Titans
The Replacements
Rudy
Varsity Blues
The Waterboy
We Are Marshall
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I'm very partial to the 1991 film "Necessary Roughness".
 
Pat Cook said:
nomadcowatbk said:
time to revive Scared Straight
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A&E has already done that - Beyond Scared Straight

Back on topic, what NFL Network REALLY should be doing is putting NFL Classics on the RedZone channel UNCUT & UNBUTCHERED during the offeason & adding version of NFL RedZone to Saturdays during football season to supplement ESPN Goal Line since they seem content on using that channel to feature games primarily on the ESPN family of network & TOTALLY IGNORING those broadcast on other networks (Besides FSN & the ACC Network) & ANYTHING that smells of FCS action

Sorry but the movies just don't belong on the sports channels. Let ESPN Classic air those

JMO.....

Cheers & 73 ;D
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I'm pretty sure ESPN can't show games it doesn't have the rights to even if it wanted to, but I still have a problem with Goal Line in that it tends to stick with games for longer periods and won't switch rapid-fire between two red-zone drives the way Red Zone will. Even if it did have all the games, it wouldn't give you the sense that you were absorbing everything happening in the college football universe the way Red Zone does.
 
Morgan Wick said:
Pat Cook said:
nomadcowatbk said:
time to revive Scared Straight
Click to expand...
A&E has already done that - Beyond Scared Straight

Back on topic, what NFL Network REALLY should be doing is putting NFL Classics on the RedZone channel UNCUT & UNBUTCHERED during the offeason & adding version of NFL RedZone to Saturdays during football season to supplement ESPN Goal Line since they seem content on using that channel to feature games primarily on the ESPN family of network & TOTALLY IGNORING those broadcast on other networks (Besides FSN & the ACC Network) & ANYTHING that smells of FCS action

Sorry but the movies just don't belong on the sports channels. Let ESPN Classic air those

JMO.....

Cheers & 73 ;D
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I'm pretty sure ESPN can't show games it doesn't have the rights to even if it wanted to, but I still have a problem with Goal Line in that it tends to stick with games for longer periods and won't switch rapid-fire between two red-zone drives the way Red Zone will. Even if it did have all the games, it wouldn't give you the sense that you were absorbing everything happening in the college football universe the way Red Zone does.
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ESPN shows red zone ops in games televised by FSN

And there's nothing I'm aware of preventing ESPN from showing RZ ops in FCS games as it does with the Top 25 FBS games (Besides ESPN's own OVERSIZED $$$-GRUBBING EGO that is :mad: )

As for Goal Line Vs. RedZone - The former isn't even in HD whereas the latter has both an SD & an HD feed

Cheers & 73 ;D
 
I see that the MLB channel just showed "Pride of the Yankees" and "Cobb." Coming up: "Bull Durham."
 
RicoGregg said:
Jazz_Kat said:
Just got finished watching "Semi Pro" starring Burt Reynolds.
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Methinks you meant "Semi-Tough".

Loved Clara Pelf! :)
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Just watch out for the venom-treated blade in the toe of her shoe.
 
You're right, it was Semi Tough. ::) ;D
 
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