# The Big Five - Sport Movies 🎥

An episode of [The Howie Games](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1146329262), 7 Jun 2026, 55 min.

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What are the five greatest sporting movies of all time? 🍿 On the debut episode of The Big Five, Howie and The Chief, Jason Dunstall, count down their top five sporting movies ever made. From underdog stories and Hollywood blockbusters to cult classics and tear-jerking triumphs, the boys go head-to-head over which films belong on sport's ultimate podium. The lists are locked in but the arguments are just getting started. What's in your Big Five? 🎬🏆🍿🏆 SUBMIT YOUR ANSWERS IN THE OFFICAL BIG 5 SURVEY: https://forms.gle/9d9M7XddvMkYJWns6 NEW BIG FIVE EPISODES EVERY MONDAY! NEXT: Big Five Sporting GOATs (Male) 🐐 Subscribe to The Howie Games on LiSTNR, Spotify or Apple Podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:02] Listener.
[0:12] Big, big five.
[0:14] Yes, the big, big five.
[0:16] Chief, I'm going to introduce you in a moment, but that's the first time you've heard the sting.
[0:20] What do you think of what we've got here?
[0:23] It was something, wasn't it?
[0:24] Now, this is your first time seeing the studio set up.
[0:29] For those watching at home, rather than just listening, it's a magnificently designed set here on the Howie Games Big Five.
[0:34] What are your thoughts?
[0:35] What's that photo of you over there?
[0:37] That's a really old one.
[0:38] I don't know where we are there.
[0:39] We must be overseas somewhere on one of the footy trips.
[0:42] Who are you with?
[0:42] Back in the 80s.
[0:43] Dermot, Felix, Peter Russo, Russell Morris, Dipper and myself.
[0:47] The big Dipper gets a run.
[0:48] And in the back, there's you and my young bloke.
[0:51] He's now 13, the big penguin.
[0:53] I reckon he's four at a Renegades game.
[0:55] I don't remember that.
[0:56] No.
[0:56] What I certainly don't remember is this one.
[0:58] Somehow you've AI'd yourself on a surfboard in a tube, in a barrel.
[1:03] That's getting shacked, my friends.
[1:05] That takes pride of placing the office at home.
[1:07] Right, if you're joining us for the first time, after 10 years of the Howie Games, we've decided to do something different.
[1:12] So this is based around what you and your mates or your girlfriends do when you're out for coffee or you're at the pub or if you're at school with your mates and you're talking about who's better.
[1:22] Who do we think is better out of this and that?
[1:25] Who's better out of LeBron and Jordan and Shaq?
[1:28] That is what the Big Five is all about.
[1:31] And to get us through it.
[1:33] is a man that I used to travel down to watch from Taralgon.
[1:36] I'd go down to Waverley.
[1:37] He'd kick 10.
[1:38] I'd go back.
[1:38] I'd hopefully see the replay.
[1:40] His name is Jason Dunstall.
[1:41] Kicked 1,254 AFL goals.
[1:43] From here on, he will be called the chief.
[1:45] It's a big deal, chief, because 10 years I've been running this show solo, and you are my number one draft pick to join us.
[1:51] Well, it's a space in which I'm very unfamiliar, Howie.
[1:54] You know that, the whole podcast thing.
[1:57] In fact, technology can make the biggest space for me.
[1:59] But they are topics that we all talk about.
[2:02] I mean, one in particular that we're getting into is something that my brothers and my nephews, we have a ski trip every year.
[2:09] This comes up just about every year when we're having a few beers and we talk about one topic in particular.
[2:14] And the debate gets quite willing at times.
[2:17] I was in a pub in Sri Lanka with some cricketers and there was nearly an all-in brawl about who was the best fielder of all time as far as fielding goes.
[2:25] So we'll cover all sorts of topics.
[2:28] We're about to introduce today's topic.
[2:30] But before we start...
[2:32] I thought this topic, I'll spend 10 minutes, I'll have a quick look on YouTube, a bit look on the Wikipedia, maybe a bit of chat GPT.
[2:42] Four hours later, Chief.
[2:44] I'm deep on YouTube.
[2:45] How much time is it taking you to compile this one?
[2:48] I've spent a few hours.
[2:50] And the important thing to remember is there's no right or wrong.
[2:53] No.
[2:53] This is purely and simply a taste, a preference, and we can give reasons why.
[2:59] And there'll also be mentions of others that missed the cut for whatever reason.
[3:02] I had so much trouble leaving things out, going, how can I possibly leave that out?
[3:07] But there's only five spots.
[3:09] I'm embarrassed about some.
[3:10] So today we are doing the big five sports movies of all time.
[3:14] Wow.
[3:15] I'm embarrassed about some of the movies I've left out.
[3:18] I hear you.
[3:19] I hear you.
[3:20] And I had a discussion with my wife, Erica, about it.
[3:23] And she said, if I did not include...
[3:27] Rob Lowe in Youngblood.
[3:30] She divorced me, Chief.
[3:32] Oh, my goodness.
[3:33] And I said, was it for the movie?
[3:34] Because I looked at the trailer.
[3:36] I think it was about Rob Lowe rather than it was about the actual movie.
[3:39] Youngblood.
[3:40] Well, it's had Patrick Swayze in, I think.
[3:41] It did.
[3:42] It did.
[3:42] Cracking film.
[3:43] Didn't even get on my radar, Youngblood.
[3:45] But there's some.
[3:47] So I feel sick.
[3:49] Hmm.
[3:51] that I haven't got Bend It Like Beckham in there.
[3:54] And that's Bend It Like Beckham, really?
[3:56] Yes.
[3:56] Keira Knightley.
[3:57] Great.
[3:57] Keira Knightley.
[3:58] And see, to me, that's a bit like Rob Lowe.
[4:00] A young Keira Knightley probably got me at a young age.
[4:04] See, the other thing is when you say young, but all of a sudden I started separating them into micro-genres like your hockey movies, your footy movies, your baseball.
[4:14] And then you'd have to go, which is the best of those before you can say, does that make the –
[4:18] So do you feel, because I had trouble with American football, right, and I love the movie Draft Day and I love Any Given Sunday and I haven't got either of them in because I, in my big five, don't think you can put...
[4:33] two movies of the same genre in your book.
[4:35] Well, I've done the same thing.
[4:36] I've done the same thing.
[4:37] So you've separated them.
[4:38] So I've picked one from that column, one from that column, one from that, yeah.
[4:41] Is there one you didn't squeeze in that you're like, ah?
[4:44] A heap of them.
[4:44] A heap of them.
[4:46] Well, probably the easiest way for me to explain it is when we get to the movie I have put in, what in that category missed out?
[4:53] Well, there's a couple – baseball, I think –
[4:57] Baseball.
[4:58] That was so hard.
[5:00] What is it about baseball, whether it's Major League, which I couldn't get in, Moneyball, which like the natural, one of the great sports movies?
[5:09] See, now you're mentioning all my hard luck cases.
[5:12] Okay, but what do you reckon it is about?
[5:14] I think of all the genres, baseball chieftain is the one to me that evokes fantastic films.
[5:19] I don't know why it is.
[5:21] It's funny because there's...
[5:24] What's the right way to say this?
[5:25] It's a longer game with less action.
[5:27] Yes.
[5:27] But the highlights of it are incredible.
[5:29] And maybe there's more time to tell a story.
[5:31] And those movies you're talking about have incredible stories and themes that run through it.
[5:35] Like I watched Moneyball again recently.
[5:37] Right.
[5:38] Billy Bean, it's a bloody good show.
[5:40] Quality.
[5:41] It's a really good show.
[5:42] You didn't fit it in?
[5:43] I couldn't get it in.
[5:43] See, I couldn't get it in either.
[5:45] Like Major League, when Charlie Sheen comes down with the haircut and they start playing the theme, Chief, I got shimmers watching it back and I couldn't.
[5:54] So why if baseball is no good?
[5:57] I looked everywhere.
[5:58] Similarly, Ponderous Sport is a sport I love, cricket.
[6:02] There is not one decent cricket movie out there.
[6:05] No.
[6:05] No.
[6:05] Not one.
[6:06] Nope.
[6:07] All right.
[6:07] So what we do, we're going to do our...
[6:11] 5, 4, 3, 2.
[6:12] Yes.
[6:13] And then before we get to 1, this is not easy because it's art and everyone's got a different opinion.
[6:18] You've got to put your worst sports film in.
[6:20] Yes.
[6:21] And then we get to number 1 and then audience.
[6:23] So we conducted a survey.
[6:24] You can see on the show notes how you can get involved in the show.
[6:28] All I say, Chief, over 3,000 entries.
[6:32] And we don't want hate on social media about this.
[6:35] We'll get it.
[6:35] We'll get it.
[6:35] But you know what will be interesting is you'll put something on your list or –
[6:40] The people out there will put something on their list and I'll go, I completely forgot about that.
[6:44] And you go, oh, my God, that was brilliant.
[6:46] But you can't change.
[6:47] No, you can't.
[6:48] And I'll stick fat with the ones I've got.
[6:51] We start the first ever episode of the Harry Games Big Five with the Chief.
[6:57] We are talking sports movies and we start with number five.
[7:01] Five.
[7:01] Five.
[7:01] Five.
[7:03] Number five.
[7:05] You weren't expecting that little bit of sizzle.
[7:07] I wasn't expecting that.
[7:08] There's a bit going on.
[7:09] Now I'm going to give you a line from the movie, Howie.
[7:11] Okay, so you're going to deliver it.
[7:12] I have to try and guess it.
[7:13] Okay, let's go.
[7:15] Where the hell have you been, Jimmy Braddock?
[7:18] Okay.
[7:21] Cinderella Man?
[7:22] Yes.
[7:22] Russell Crowe.
[7:24] Great, great.
[7:25] Jimmy Brown.
[7:25] Where the hell are you playing Jimmy Brown?
[7:29] Now, this is controversial off the top because Rocky misses the cut.
[7:33] I've put Cinderella Man in.
[7:34] So, Russell Crowe plays the lead.
[7:36] We are talking US Depression era, right?
[7:38] Yep.
[7:39] He's a retired boxer because he broke his hand.
[7:41] He's got René Zellwig as the wife.
[7:43] Yes.
[7:44] Got kids.
[7:45] Can't feed them.
[7:46] There's no money.
[7:47] He's working on the wharves, working on the docks, trying to make ends meet, but you only get picked.
[7:51] They pick a handful of people each day down there of thousands clamouring to try and get work.
[7:56] Broke his hand so he had to retire from boxing.
[7:58] His wife hates boxing, hates the violence anyway.
[8:02] His manager and longtime friend who steals the show, Paul Giamatti, is absolutely brilliant.
[8:07] What's his character?
[8:08] He's the manager.
[8:09] Okay.
[8:10] So he, at one stage, he goes to Russell Crowe because he's still in the boxing game, his manager.
[8:17] Corn Griffin's the number two contender for the heavyweight title.
[8:21] The bloke that was picked to fight him pulls out late.
[8:25] So the manager rings Jimmy Braddock, Russell Crowe, and says, do you want to take it?
[8:30] He's given up fine, but he said, it's worth this much money.
[8:32] He goes, I'll take it.
[8:34] So he goes, he's like eating a plate of beans, trying to get some sustenance in because he's had no food.
[8:40] And the fight goes on and they're all expecting him just to get smashed.
[8:45] Mate, he drops him.
[8:46] He drops Corn Griffin.
[8:47] And that's where the line, where the hell have you been, Jimmy?
[8:50] Because his hand is healed.
[8:51] Based on a true story?
[8:52] Based on a true story this show.
[8:54] So then all of a sudden he gets the money.
[8:59] And then there's the quandary between...
[9:00] He's in the fur coats and stuff, isn't he?
[9:02] No, the wife saying, I don't really like you doing it, but we need the money to survive.
[9:06] And his manager starts getting in fights.
[9:08] And he starts winning.
[9:09] It's hilarious.
[9:10] And then he takes...
[9:11] The big fight is Max Baer, the world heavyweight champion.
[9:15] The German?
[9:15] Who's killed a couple of people in the ring, Howie.
[9:17] Right.
[9:18] He's a big German, isn't he?
[9:19] Yes, he's enormous.
[9:20] He's enormous.
[9:21] Enormous.
[9:21] Enormous.
[9:22] Enormous.
[9:23] And the build-up to everything, I loved it.
[9:26] I just absolutely loved it because of the era and everything that it went through.
[9:31] Right, so write it down because we've got our special high-tech whiteboards here that Cass has put together.
[9:36] The only concern for me about Cinderella Man?
[9:39] Yep.
[9:41] I completely forgot about it and now I think I should have been in because now I'm looking at where I am with number five.
[9:46] So Chief's top five sport movie comes in number five.
[9:49] We're on the board.
[9:50] We're off and running.
[9:50] Cinderella Man.
[9:51] Okay.
[9:52] Are you ready?
[9:53] Yes.
[9:54] I will say one last thing about it.
[9:56] I had it written in my notes.
[9:57] Go on.
[9:58] Based on a true story, he wins the world title, beats Max Baer, goes on to fight Joe Lewis.
[10:04] who called him the bravest man I ever fought.
[10:08] Right.
[10:08] Jimmy Braddock.
[10:09] Right.
[10:09] Well, Russell Crowe will be happier in.
[10:12] Okay, number five for me.
[10:14] Are you ready?
[10:17] He is not human.
[10:19] He is like a piece of iron.
[10:20] Oh, let's set up Rocky IV.
[10:23] Yes, Chief.
[10:24] With Dolph Lundgren.
[10:25] Yes, Chief.
[10:26] You see?
[10:27] You see?
[10:28] He's not a machine.
[10:29] He's a man.
[10:30] You're bravado.
[10:38] And you did it more like Arnold Schwarzenegger than like Dolph Hogan.
[10:42] I'll try again.
[10:44] But it's actually in the film, it's in Russian, and the subtitle comes up to say what it is.
[10:50] He is not human.
[10:51] He is like a piece of iron, which was at the end of the second round.
[10:54] So Rocky IV.
[10:56] Well, I haven't got any other Rockies in.
[10:58] For me, it's the best Rocky ever made.
[10:59] Why?
[11:01] Because I get the grit of one, but the big show-stealing scenes, like when Apollo Creed comes out at the start of the film and he's going to fight Ivan Drago, you've got James Brown singing about America and it's the Stars and Stripes.
[11:18] But I think the reason, Chief, is I look back at the film, there's 30 minutes of montages.
[11:26] Just get pumped up to the music.
[11:28] And for me, Chief...
[11:30] See if you can pick what it is.
[11:32] There is a montage that for me, so montage, we're talking lots of pictures to music, no real talk.
[11:38] The greatest montage in a sports film ever put together is in Rocky IV.
[11:44] Is it?
[11:44] Yes.
[11:44] When he's training.
[11:46] Yes, Chief.
[11:47] When he's up on the mountains.
[11:47] Yes, Chief.
[11:48] Druggles!
[11:49] Yes.
[11:49] And it's echoing through the mountains.
[11:51] Druggles!
[11:54] I knew you were going to jump into that.
[11:56] So he's old school, chopping wood in the snow.
[11:58] Yeah, running a cart through the snow of heavy logs and stuff.
[12:02] And Drago is like what we're seeing at the moment with the enhanced games.
[12:05] Correct.
[12:06] He's wired up.
[12:06] Exactly right.
[12:07] He's getting juiced up to the max.
[12:08] Everything's getting measured, timed.
[12:10] So a couple of things about the film.
[12:12] It was the highest grossing Rocky to that point.
[12:16] So it's a pass the other three for the amount of money they made.
[12:18] There's also time involved, so it's later.
[12:21] Exactly.
[12:21] But yeah, yeah, yeah.
[12:23] So this is the teaser for it, right?
[12:25] I can't do my moosy voice.
[12:26] This is my best chance.
[12:28] He could have stopped the fight.
[12:30] he could have saved his best friend's life.
[12:33] But now the one thing he can't do is walk away.
[12:37] Rocky IV in cinemas now, Chief.
[12:39] It's a cracker.
[12:40] Because poor old Apollo bites it.
[12:42] So it was filmed in Wyoming.
[12:44] It wasn't filmed in Russia.
[12:46] So for me, I've got to go Rocky IV.
[12:50] I reckon you'll get some blowback there because Rocky I and even Rocky II were the classics.
[12:55] Rocky III, you have Mr T come in.
[12:58] Rocky V, nearly the worst movie ever made.
[13:01] Except for the last 20 minutes.
[13:02] Yes.
[13:03] When he goes, my ring's outside.
[13:05] Hey, Tommy, my ring's outside.
[13:07] And then it's on a street fight.
[13:08] Have I got my Roman numerals right?
[13:10] Is that Rocky IV?
[13:11] That's four.
[13:11] Well done.
[13:12] Well done.
[13:12] Rocky IV for me.
[13:13] So we've both started with boxing films.
[13:15] The boxing, yeah.
[13:16] But boxing, even from a sports story perspective, it's great pictures, Chief.
[13:21] Yeah.
[13:21] Boxing is great pictures.
[13:22] Yeah.
[13:23] Okay.
[13:23] So you've got no problem with Rocky V in there?
[13:24] No problem.
[13:25] Okay.
[13:25] That's all right.
[13:26] So now we just don't chop off our little stinger here because the production team went into a lot of work here.
[13:30] It's time for number four.
[13:32] Number four.
[13:33] Touchless four.
[13:34] Number four.
[13:36] Right on, Chiefie, where are you going?
[13:38] I had a line, but I'll give you...
[13:40] I probably don't get it from the first line.
[13:42] It's as simple as...
[13:43] So you haven't written this down?
[13:45] This is a story to your mind?
[13:45] No, I've got it, but there's another line that I think is better.
[13:47] Okay.
[13:48] I'll make it.
[13:51] I'll make it.
[13:53] I need some more information.
[13:54] I'll give you another one.
[13:54] Okay.
[13:55] We're going to run the picket fence, but don't get caught watching the paint dry.
[14:00] I have got no idea.
[14:02] So it's a basketball movie.
[14:04] Basketball movie.
[14:05] Okay.
[14:07] There's one basketball movie that I nearly threw in, but I'm not sure this is yours.
[14:11] White Men Can't Jump?
[14:12] No, that's not it.
[14:14] Right.
[14:14] I struggle not to put White Men Can't Jump in with Billy Snogs.
[14:17] The ones that probably just missed the cut for me were Coach Carter.
[14:22] Oh, Coach Carter.
[14:23] You didn't put it in.
[14:24] Didn't put it in.
[14:25] And he got game with Denzel Washington, which is great as well.
[14:28] So what are we going with here?
[14:31] I'm not big on basketball.
[14:32] Gene Hackman.
[14:33] Gene Hackman.
[14:35] It's not the Basketball Diaries.
[14:36] That's Leonardo DiCaprio.
[14:39] Oh, he's writing it down.
[14:40] He's going to keep the suspense going.
[14:45] Hoosiers.
[14:46] Mate, do yourself a favour.
[14:47] I don't think I've seen it.
[14:48] Oh, my goodness.
[14:49] So it's a small town Indiana high school trying to win a state championship, right?
[14:53] Set it up for me, Chiefie.
[14:54] Gene Hackman plays the coach, Norman Dale, who was a great coach but has a chequered pass because he lost his temper and he got in a fight with a player.
[15:02] So he's been scrubbed.
[15:04] Right.
[15:05] The coach of the high school dies.
[15:08] He gets an opportunity to come in, maybe a little bit of redemption.
[15:11] And the problem is he comes to the team.
[15:14] It's basically...
[15:16] The school's run by the townspeople.
[15:18] Everyone's invested in what's going on and they love their kids playing sport.
[15:21] Not a true story, this one.
[15:23] It's loosely based.
[15:24] Okay.
[15:26] Adapted.
[15:26] The best player, the best player, Jimmy, walks out when the coach dies because he had a close relationship.
[15:32] So Gene Hackman comes in, authoritarian, disciplined, rules, all that sort of stuff.
[15:38] Two players walk out.
[15:39] One eventually comes back.
[15:41] They start really poorly.
[15:43] Is he under pressure when they start poorly?
[15:45] The townspeople have a meeting and vote to sack him.
[15:48] Right.
[15:48] You're out.
[15:49] Then Jimmy walks in to the town meeting.
[15:52] He's the gun player.
[15:53] He's seen how he's disciplining the players and trying to bring some rules and regulations in.
[15:58] Come on, Jimmy.
[15:59] And Jimmy gets up, can I say something?
[16:01] And everyone goes quiet.
[16:02] He says, I think it's time for me to play.
[16:05] And the joint goes up.
[16:06] They nearly tear the roof off.
[16:08] He goes, but one condition.
[16:09] Right.
[16:11] If I play, coach stays.
[16:13] He goes, I go.
[16:15] I don't know if he'll make any change, but I figure it's time for me to start playing ball.
[16:20] I told you once I got rid of him.
[16:31] One other thing, I play, coach stays, he goes, I go.
[16:37] Right, so he backs the new coach.
[16:39] Backs the new coach.
[16:40] Comes in and then they start hustling.
[16:42] Then they're moving.
[16:44] They go all the way to the state championship final.
[16:47] Dying seconds.
[16:48] They're a point down.
[16:51] Everyone knows the ball's going to Jimmy, right?
[16:54] So they've got the last time out.
[16:56] And Gene Hackman, very smart coach, he goes, look, they're all expecting it to go to Jimmy, so we're going to use you as a decoy.
[17:04] And he runs, sets up this little play.
[17:07] And he's looking at the players and they're all looking at him.
[17:08] And he goes, what?
[17:11] He goes, what?
[17:12] And then he looks at Jimmy and Jimmy just goes, I'll make it.
[17:16] So he says, all right, get the ball to Jimmy.
[17:18] And he goes, I'll make it.
[17:20] And he makes it.
[17:20] Enormous.
[17:21] So the line you quoted me was?
[17:23] I'll make it.
[17:24] I'll make it.
[17:26] And that's where it's from.
[17:28] It's brilliant.
[17:28] I don't think I've ever seen this.
[17:30] Oh, mate, do yourself a favour.
[17:32] You'll love it.
[17:32] So that's what we do on The Big Five.
[17:34] We explain, we discuss, we debate, but also provide a bit of information.
[17:38] So I'll go home and watch that one.
[17:40] What year are we sort of talking?
[17:42] 86.
[17:43] 86.
[17:43] Yeah.
[17:44] Okay, so you've got it.
[17:45] So you've got Cinderella Man, who's here?
[17:46] So my number four.
[17:48] Now.
[17:50] I've been looking forward to looking you in the eye and delivering this line to you, Chief, as my hero.
[17:55] I've got to get in the right frame of mind here.
[17:57] Okay.
[17:58] So I'm a female character here.
[18:00] Okay.
[18:02] Here we go.
[18:02] Here we go.
[18:05] Don't interrupt me on this one, though, even if you know it.
[18:09] You complete me.
[18:11] Shut up.
[18:13] Shut up.
[18:13] Shut up.
[18:17] Oh, Howie.
[18:19] I can't sit here and look at you looking at me saying, you complete me.
[18:23] Jerry Maguire.
[18:23] Jerry Maguire.
[18:25] Just shut up.
[18:28] Just shut up.
[18:30] You had me at hello.
[18:32] René Zellweger again.
[18:34] So 1996, René Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr. As, can you remember his name?
[18:42] I will too.
[18:44] Rod.
[18:45] Tidwell.
[18:45] Tidwell.
[18:46] Tidwell.
[18:46] Good.
[18:47] Rod Tidwell as the disgruntled player.
[18:50] And you've got little, do you remember the little kid's name with the glasses?
[18:54] Who's now a bodybuilder.
[18:56] Ray.
[18:57] That's right.
[18:57] What about the worst part of the movie?
[18:59] Oh, no, there's no bad parts of Jerry Maguire.
[19:01] At the end, when they're walking him and the baseball's come out of the ground, he goes, throw it back.
[19:06] Yeah.
[19:07] And he goes like this.
[19:08] And all of a sudden it's a...
[19:10] It's been launched a kilometre away.
[19:13] So Ray was played by Jonathan Lipinski.
[19:15] Yeah.
[19:15] Couldn't throw the ball, but you're right, they cut it in.
[19:18] Yeah.
[19:18] So it cost...
[19:19] Very emotional movie.
[19:20] It cost Jerry Maguire...
[19:22] $50 million, but it made $273 million at the box office.
[19:26] Oh, wow.
[19:26] Nominated for five Academy Awards.
[19:28] Yep.
[19:28] Best Supporting Actor was Cuba Gooding Jr. My favourite scene.
[19:35] A part... Oh, actually, you know who it was originally written for?
[19:37] You won't know.
[19:39] So the part that played by Tom Cruise was originally written for Tom Hanks, but by the time it was written, he'd moved on to another film.
[19:46] Yep.
[19:47] Then they offered it to Woody Harrelson.
[19:49] Who said no?
[19:50] Woody said no.
[19:51] He said no to the part of Jerry Maguire.
[19:53] You idiot Woody.
[19:54] So it goes to Tom Cruise.
[19:57] Reebok, Chief, in my research, paid $1.5 million to have an ad in the film during the credits.
[20:03] Oh.
[20:04] But it got left out, which caused a lawsuit.
[20:07] And then when it was released in DVD, it was back in there.
[20:10] It was back in there.
[20:11] Because the big contract in the movie was with Nike, wasn't it?
[20:15] Was that Cush?
[20:16] Cushman.
[20:16] Yes.
[20:17] So that was the big scene.
[20:18] Yeah.
[20:19] When he was trying to – he thought he had Cush.
[20:21] Yep.
[20:21] And then he went number one and he went on to –
[20:26] Jay Moore played the character that took him who was – Bob Sugar.
[20:29] Yeah.
[20:29] Bobby Sugar.
[20:30] At his old company.
[20:31] So my only concern – but it's it because I love the film.
[20:34] I couldn't quite figure out whether it was a rom-com or a sports film.
[20:40] Where do you sit on that?
[20:40] It probably dabbled in both, didn't it?
[20:43] Yep.
[20:43] It dabbled in both.
[20:45] So mind you, when I made my... Selections?
[20:49] Overall, just my...
[20:51] When I organised my field of movies, Jerry Maguire was in there.
[20:53] It got a run?
[20:54] Yeah.
[20:54] I just couldn't get it into my top five.
[20:56] And I could have gone with, show me the money, but I wanted to look into your eyes, Chief.
[21:00] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[21:01] And you had me at, hello.
[21:03] Oh, now, I love my number three.
[21:06] It could have been number one, but it is time for...
[21:11] Righto.
[21:11] What do you got for it?
[21:12] I hope you get this from the line because I love this.
[21:14] Okay.
[21:14] I love this movie.
[21:15] And this will generate a lot of chat for a reason you'll find out in a moment.
[21:18] Okay.
[21:19] The line is clear the mechanism.
[21:24] Right.
[21:25] So I presume the mechanism, I don't know, I presume the mechanism is someone's brain.
[21:29] You're trying to clear your brain.
[21:31] So I know Charlie Sheen had a problem with his brain in Major League, but I don't think a man of your intellect's gone with Charlie Sheen.
[21:38] Clear the mechanism.
[21:40] What's the genre?
[21:41] What type of sport are they playing?
[21:42] You're in the right game.
[21:43] Baseball.
[21:44] Clear the mechanism.
[21:47] The Natural?
[21:48] Here's the thing.
[21:48] Not The Natural?
[21:49] The Natural was, I felt sick leaving The Natural out.
[21:53] Because that was a little older and I grew up with that movie thinking, there goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was.
[21:59] I loved it.
[21:59] I loved it.
[22:00] Robert Redford was absolutely brilliant, but it didn't get it.
[22:02] I put this one in.
[22:03] Field of Dreams?
[22:03] So here's the thing about baseball.
[22:06] Yeah.
[22:06] Kevin Costas made like six of them because he loves his baseball.
[22:09] And all of them are great.
[22:11] Bull Durham.
[22:12] Field of Dreams, as you say.
[22:14] But I went down this path.
[22:15] Yeah.
[22:17] For love of the game.
[22:18] For the love of the game.
[22:19] Clear the mechanism.
[22:26] Yeah, now that's one that I haven't considered.
[22:27] Kelly Preston plays the girl that he ends up falling in love with and John C. Reilly, the catcher, the long-termer.
[22:33] It's brilliant because he's an ageing pitcher, Billy Chappell.
[22:36] Yeah, played by Costner.
[22:37] Yes.
[22:38] In the midst of pitching, the perfect game, a no-hitter.
[22:41] He's near retirement.
[22:43] He plays for the Detroit Tigers.
[22:44] They're completely out of the mix, and they're playing the Yankees.
[22:48] And the Yankees are off to there preparing for the playoffs.
[22:52] And so throughout the course of the match, he's reflecting on his relationship with Jane Aubrey, who's played by Kelly Preston, how they met.
[23:00] loved her, all these sort of things.
[23:01] But he'd always put his sport first and that relationship went by the wayside.
[23:06] gets injured, has to come back, does all those sorts of things.
[23:09] And here he is pitching a potential no-hitter, and he's just getting completely lost during the game.
[23:15] The team gets sold while the game's going on.
[23:18] While it's being played.
[23:19] While the game's going on, and he's been asked just beforehand, in one of the innings breaks, he gets told, team's been sold.
[23:27] They want to know if you want to be traded to the San Francisco Giants or if you're retiring.
[23:32] So he's got that to ponder as well as he's pitching through.
[23:35] And he ends up.
[23:37] pitching the perfect game.
[23:39] And it's extraordinary.
[23:41] The way they build up to it is absolutely incredible.
[23:44] And there's a line.
[23:46] There's two lines at the end of the movie.
[23:47] So when he pitches the perfect game, the commentator, who you'll love, he goes, the cathedral that is Yankee Stadium belongs to a chapel.
[23:56] which I think is a brilliant commentator's line.
[23:59] That's a Hutto style line.
[24:00] That's clever, isn't it?
[24:00] That is good.
[24:01] And then he just signs a baseball.
[24:04] This is probably before the game's finished.
[24:06] Just signs a baseball for the kid that's like the little messenger to run up to the box where the owners are entertaining the new owners.
[24:14] Tell them I'm through for love of the game.
[24:16] And he retires and he goes to chase the girl, whatever.
[24:19] Loved it.
[24:20] Loved it.
[24:20] And as you say, this is an opinion caper.
[24:23] I'm going to say, for the love of the game...
[24:27] was the third best baseball movie Kevin Costner made.
[24:29] And most people will say that.
[24:31] So what was it about that grabbed you?
[24:33] Even more, it was a box office flop.
[24:34] Right.
[24:35] So what did you like so much about it?
[24:36] I just fell in love with the movie.
[24:38] I got so involved in the story and the emotion and everything that happened.
[24:42] At one stage, John C. Reilly, the pitcher, who's a great actor, great part actor.
[24:47] He comes out and Billy's just sort of off with the fairies.
[24:49] And he goes, anyone had a hit yet?
[24:52] And he goes, Billy, no.
[24:56] He goes, no, I ain't seen this.
[24:58] Billy, I ain't ever seen this because it's the perfect game.
[25:00] And he just goes, oh, really?
[25:03] It's hilarious the way they get lost in it.
[25:05] Okay, put it up.
[25:06] Put it up.
[25:08] I'll be honest, you've lost me a bit on that one.
[25:09] Yeah, and that'll lose a lot of people because I know Field of Dreams and Bull Durham will be placed ahead of them.
[25:14] Bull Durham is a quality, quality film.
[25:15] Yeah, I agree.
[25:16] There's some lines in that you can't say, but they're very, very funny.
[25:19] Okay, so you've gone Cinderella Man, Hoosiers, and now Kevin Costner for the love of the game.
[25:25] All right.
[25:26] My number three chief has got some of the most iconic
[25:34] Stoner lines.
[25:36] Oh, here we go.
[25:37] Stoner lines.
[25:38] Yes, Chief.
[25:39] This was released in 1991.
[25:41] This is one of the great sports scenes of all time.
[25:45] If you grew up in the world I grew up in.
[25:48] I want to have a guess right now.
[25:49] No, you can't.
[25:50] You can't.
[25:52] So, does any of you have anything remotely interesting to tell me?
[25:56] Pause.
[25:58] I caught my first tube today.
[25:59] Pause.
[26:00] Sir.
[26:00] Sir.
[26:03] It's a classic line.
[26:05] And then the second classic line, if you haven't got it from that, which involves an Australian actor, anybody been out there?
[26:13] No one's been out.
[26:14] No one's going out.
[26:16] Don't be fucking crazy, man.
[26:18] It's death on a stick out there, mate.
[26:20] Everybody been out there!
[26:21] No one's been out, no one's gone out.
[26:23] It's going to be fucking crazy, man.
[26:25] Death on a stick out there, mate.
[26:27] I knew it was point break, but I don't remember that first line.
[26:30] So he goes in to see the FBI director who's got, with Gary Goosey, if he got in the report, he's like, caught my first tube today, sir.
[26:36] Now, for Christ's sake, does either one of you have anything even remotely interesting to tell me?
[26:42] Caught my first tube this morning.
[26:45] Utah, give me two.
[26:46] Give me two.
[26:47] Keanu Reeves, Johnny Utah, who is the Ohio State quarterback.
[26:52] Patrick Swayze is Bodhi, who's this sort of spiritual type guru.
[26:57] Gary Busey is the FBI agent.
[26:59] Anthony Keaties is in it, plays one of the surfers.
[27:02] And it's basically Gary Busey is trying to figure out who's robbing the banks.
[27:07] So you've taken, for me, you've taken a bit of licence to make this a sports movie.
[27:12] Surfing's a sport.
[27:13] It's a crime movie.
[27:13] No, it's not.
[27:14] It's a crime movie.
[27:15] It's a sports movie.
[27:16] But they're not competing.
[27:17] No.
[27:18] They just surf out of the love of hobby.
[27:20] Yes.
[27:20] It's a hobby for them.
[27:21] Yeah, no, I agree with that, but you're still wrong.
[27:25] But I love the movie.
[27:26] So the first break in the case in the days of when this film is released, 1991, is they get the crime scene investigators on there and they discover that from the CCTV footage... Yep.
[27:44] One of the bank robbers has unusual tan lines.
[27:46] Tan, correct.
[27:47] And then when they get a bit closer, they investigate some residue.
[27:50] Wax.
[27:51] Sex wax on the airport.
[27:52] Which is used for the board, yes.
[27:54] So a wonderful film.
[27:57] It was made for $24 million.
[27:58] It made $83.5 million.
[27:59] What did you think of the remake?
[28:01] No good.
[28:02] No good.
[28:02] No good.
[28:03] I haven't watched the remake.
[28:04] I never watched the remake.
[28:05] Don't bother with the remake.
[28:06] So Swayze busted four ribs in the making of this film, Chief, because he wanted to do all his stunts.
[28:13] So him and Johnny Utah, who was played, of course, by Keanu Reeves, they learnt to surf.
[28:21] So Swayze busted four ribs.
[28:23] It wasn't at Bells Beach, though.
[28:25] This is the great misnomer.
[28:26] When anyone says, I'm travelling overseas, I live near Bells Beach, oh, that's where they film Point Break.
[28:31] No, Chief.
[28:31] That is not Bells Beach on that final scene where it's death of stick out there.
[28:35] It is for all the servers out there.
[28:37] Indian Beach in Oregon is where they filmed it.
[28:41] So, of course, it's a sports film.
[28:47] Loose derivation there, I think.
[28:49] Maybe.
[28:49] All right.
[28:50] Point break goes with me at number three.
[28:52] Number three.
[28:53] It's death on a stick out there, mate.
[28:59] Right.
[29:00] Time for number two.
[29:05] We're getting to the business end now.
[29:07] This one I have.
[29:08] So I have zero problem with my top two.
[29:11] Zero problem.
[29:13] Okay.
[29:14] But.
[29:15] I'm going to give you a line.
[29:16] Okay.
[29:16] I've been a bit shit on the lines.
[29:18] All right.
[29:18] Okay.
[29:19] Where does the power come from to see the race to its end?
[29:25] From within.
[29:29] Is this a horse racing field?
[29:31] Can you give me another line?
[29:34] Well, I'll give it away.
[29:35] Okay.
[29:36] Give it away.
[29:36] I believe God made me for a purpose.
[29:39] He also made me fast.
[29:42] I still haven't got it.
[29:44] Oh, no.
[29:47] You're disappointed with me, aren't you?
[29:49] I'll give some of the characters names.
[29:50] I can't deal with your disappointment.
[29:52] Harold Abrams.
[29:53] Harold Abrams.
[29:54] Eric Little.
[29:56] Sam Musabini.
[29:58] Oh, my goodness.
[30:00] We're talking about the 1924 Olympics.
[30:03] 1924 Olympics?
[30:05] Yep.
[30:06] What are we?
[30:08] The English track team, the British track team.
[30:10] Chariots of Fire?
[30:11] Chariots of Fire.
[30:11] Chariots of Fire.
[30:13] I believe that God made me for a purpose, for China.
[30:19] But he also made me fast.
[30:23] And when I run, I feel his pleasure.
[30:26] How could you not get that?
[30:30] The soundtrack's chilling, isn't it?
[30:33] Which was Vangelis, wasn't it?
[30:34] Yeah.
[30:34] So Chariots of Fire.
[30:35] So it wasn't...
[30:36] So in my head, that's about breaking the four-minute mile, but it's obviously not.
[30:39] No, no, absolutely not.
[30:41] Right.
[30:41] This is an old film.
[30:42] It is.
[30:43] My only memory is the blokes running along the beach.
[30:44] 1981.
[30:46] Chariots of Fire.
[30:47] And tell me the line again.
[30:49] The line that I use was, where does the power come from to see the race to its end?
[30:54] Right.
[30:54] From within, which comes right at the very end.
[30:56] So I'll give you a snapshot of it.
[30:58] A couple of sprinters.
[30:58] And I'm older than a lot of people, so some of the movies go back a bit.
[31:01] I get that.
[31:02] So there's two sprinters in the British track team called Harold Abrams, who is an English Jew.
[31:08] And then you get Eric Little, who is a Scottish Christian.
[31:12] Right.
[31:13] Very devout religious.
[31:15] And they compete a couple of times and little beats Harold Abrams.
[31:19] He's played by Eon Charleston.
[31:22] Harold Abrams is just driven by this competitiveness to...
[31:27] to win the Olympic gold.
[31:29] In what distance?
[31:30] 100 metres.
[31:31] 100 metres, right.
[31:31] Sprinters.
[31:32] Okay.
[31:32] Sprinters.
[31:33] They also run the 200, but the 100 is their pet race.
[31:36] This is where they're running along the beach, yeah?
[31:37] Yeah.
[31:37] Okay.
[31:38] Yeah.
[31:39] And so that's the whole British track team you see on the beach.
[31:41] They go to Paris for the 24 Olympics.
[31:43] Yeah.
[31:45] He's beaten in his heat, Harold Abrams, but he makes it, qualifies through to the final.
[31:49] But the problem is Eric Little can't run in the 100 because it falls on a Sunday, which they consider the Sabbath, and he's a devout Christian.
[31:57] So he won't run.
[31:59] They've got royalty over there trying to get him to change his mind, all these sorts of things.
[32:03] Won't.
[32:04] Sticks fat.
[32:05] He's copying abuse from his own people.
[32:07] Sticks fat.
[32:08] Can't run.
[32:09] So to cut a long story short, he doesn't run in the 100.
[32:12] He's got a lot of money.
[32:14] The Americans who are favoured to win.
[32:15] Harold Abrams gets a private coach.
[32:17] Sam Musabini helps him do a couple of things.
[32:19] And Harold Abrams wins the 100.
[32:22] And it's incredible.
[32:23] True story?
[32:25] Based on true story again.
[32:26] So the chap's name we're talking about, he actually went and won in 924.
[32:29] Harold Abrams.
[32:31] Don't quote me on that.
[32:32] Okay.
[32:33] I thought it was.
[32:33] I could be wrong.
[32:35] Chief.
[32:35] I could be wrong.
[32:36] Now, on the big five, there is no fact checking.
[32:38] Thank goodness for that.
[32:39] We don't want any feedback.
[32:40] We've got anything wrong.
[32:41] We're not interested.
[32:42] It could be completely fiction.
[32:43] I'm not quite sure.
[32:44] I'm going to have to double-check this now.
[32:45] Hang on.
[32:46] Hang on.
[32:47] We'll go out to the tally room and they'll investigate because you've declared it was based on a true story.
[32:53] We'll get to the tally room.
[32:54] Who won the 1924 Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter sprint?
[32:58] We'll get to the tally room when they've got that information, Chief.
[33:01] Okay, hang on.
[33:02] Let's have a listen to the tally room.
[33:03] It's MJ.
[33:05] It is based off a true story.
[33:06] Okay.
[33:07] Yes.
[33:07] Who won the gold medal?
[33:08] Harold Abrams.
[33:10] Harold Abrams.
[33:11] Yes.
[33:12] Yildi.
[33:14] Thank goodness.
[33:14] You had to be doubting yourself there for a minute.
[33:17] Unbelievable.
[33:18] It was the cultural involvement and the storylines and the themes across that movie was spectacular, plus the scenery and the soundtrack.
[33:27] I've got a very distant memory of watching it with my nan and pop in their front room in Belle Reve, Chief, on the days of the VHS, and my pop was smoking like a chimney, and he used to consume cool mints to get rid of the smell, and I reckon I threw chariots of fire, because I'm six, I reckon I went through a box of cool mints.
[33:49] And that's about my only memory of Chariots of Fire.
[33:52] See, another athletics movie you probably haven't watched, have you ever watched Without Limits?
[33:55] No.
[33:56] I'd love to have put in a story about Steve Prefontaine.
[33:58] Okay.
[33:59] Prefontaine classic.
[34:01] Named after him.
[34:01] Right, so that's another one you couldn't put in.
[34:03] What's it called?
[34:04] People should check it out.
[34:04] Without Limits.
[34:05] Without Limits.
[34:06] Donald Sutherland's brilliant.
[34:07] Okay.
[34:08] Number two.
[34:10] There's some famous lines from this film, but I'm going slightly not the big showstopper.
[34:17] At number two and it's not a big showstopper?
[34:19] No, the line is not a big showstopper.
[34:21] The film has one of the great lines in the history of sports cinema, Chief.
[34:26] Okay.
[34:27] But this is a little girl talking to a man and she says to him, are you a ghost?
[34:34] He replies, what do you think?
[34:36] She says, you look real to me.
[34:40] Are you a ghost?
[34:42] Mmm.
[34:43] What do you think?
[34:45] You look real to me.
[34:47] Well, then I guess I'm real.
[34:48] Sports movie.
[34:49] Yes, Chief.
[34:51] This is definitely sport.
[34:52] It's not like Point Break.
[34:53] Okay, I'll give you a second line.
[34:54] Yes.
[34:56] Hey, is this heaven?
[34:58] No.
[34:58] I got you.
[34:58] It's Iowa.
[34:59] Is this heaven?
[35:01] No.
[35:03] It's Iowa.
[35:05] Okay, so let's feel the dream.
[35:06] And the most famous line is, if you build it, he will come.
[35:10] If you build it, he will come.
[35:17] It was originally They Will Come, then it became He Will Come.
[35:21] He.
[35:21] 1989.
[35:22] So unlike For the Love of the Game, this is Kevin Costner's best baseball film of all time.
[35:28] It's based on a novel, Shoeless, by W.P.
[35:31] Kinsella.
[35:31] Shoeless Joe Jackson.
[35:32] Exactly.
[35:32] And he plays, so the author was Kinsella, and he plays Ray Kinsella.
[35:37] Kinsella, and Ray Liotta plays Shoeless Joe Jackson.
[35:40] Exactly.
[35:40] So you've got Kevin Costner, James L. Jones.
[35:43] Brilliant.
[35:43] Has he got one of the best voices you've ever heard?
[35:45] What?
[35:45] grabs you about your man, Jarlin, because he plays the author Terence Mann.
[35:48] Yeah, he's a powerful actor.
[35:50] He gravitas, Chief.
[35:51] It's the voice.
[35:52] Yes.
[35:53] Yeah, he's great.
[35:56] He'd be like your Super Bowl $2.5 million voiceover man, I reckon, if he was voicing a Super Bowl ad.
[36:02] Has voiced over a lot of films.
[36:04] No doubt.
[36:04] Because the voice is so great.
[36:05] So it cost 15 mil to make.
[36:06] I like the numbers.
[36:07] Just 15?
[36:08] Yeah, but it made 84 and a half million at the box office.
[36:10] Yep.
[36:11] It was about the Black Sox scandal where the White Sox were accused of losing the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.
[36:19] And a lot of them were pushed out of the game.
[36:21] Yep.
[36:21] Yep.
[36:22] So obviously when he's talking about if you build it, he will come, Ray, Kevin Costner, doesn't realise at this point he being his father.
[36:32] Yes.
[36:33] So it's those amazing scenes.
[36:35] And the best –
[36:36] For me, I'm getting goosebumps now thinking about it.
[36:38] The best scene is right at the end when they – Do you want to play catch?
[36:42] Do you want to play catch?
[36:43] The other best part is because he's calling him Ray and he goes, Hey, Dad, do you want to catch?
[36:49] Do you want to play catch?
[36:49] And they both recognise.
[36:51] I've got goosebumps.
[36:52] Yeah.
[36:52] So I had Liam Hendricks on the podcast four years ago.
[36:55] So he's a finisher out of Perth, right?
[36:57] And he went through the 8, 7, 6, 5, ended up playing Major League and getting like 20 mil a year.
[37:03] And he was involved in the inaugural Major League Baseball game at that field because the field is still there.
[37:11] Yeah.
[37:11] In Iowa.
[37:12] In Iowa.
[37:13] So it's still there now.
[37:15] So in 2021, they played Major League Baseball there.
[37:17] But anyone can go there.
[37:18] It's open as a tourist attraction.
[37:19] You can go and have a catch with your dad.
[37:21] But so before the MLB game, it was all lit up.
[37:24] They had stands.
[37:25] And the players walked out through the corn.
[37:28] Oh, they did not.
[37:30] From the cornfield.
[37:31] As Kevin Costner did the voiceover around the stadium without notes cheap.
[37:36] That's cool, isn't it?
[37:37] 30 years ago.
[37:37] 30.
[37:41] On the other side of that corn, we filmed a movie that stood the test of time.
[37:47] Tonight, thanks to that enduring impact that that little movie had, it's allowed us to come here again.
[37:57] But now we're on a field that Major League Baseball made.
[38:03] So, Field of Dreams, 9 and 89.
[38:05] 9 and 89.
[38:06] They will come, Ray.
[38:07] I love when you just see all the headlights.
[38:09] Yes.
[38:09] As dusk falls.
[38:10] Forever.
[38:11] They're going forever.
[38:12] They'll come for reasons they can't even explain.
[38:13] They'll give you $20 just to look around.
[38:15] That's it, Chief.
[38:16] To save the property.
[38:17] Brilliant.
[38:17] Right.
[38:18] Now, before we get to number one, Chief, the Howie Games.
[38:21] Oh, I better write that.
[38:22] Come on.
[38:22] Don't.
[38:23] Sorry.
[38:23] Don't disrespect the board, Howie.
[38:25] For those watching on YouTube.
[38:27] A lot of people will have that right up the top.
[38:29] Field of dreams.
[38:31] Very good.
[38:32] Build it and he will come.
[38:34] Not they will come.
[38:35] He will come.
[38:35] Okay.
[38:36] Field of Dreams goes at number two.
[38:37] Now, for 10 years, Chief, the Howie Games has been about positivity, about motivation, about doing well.
[38:44] Right.
[38:45] However, for the first time in the history of the show...
[38:48] We are going to go opposite of that.
[38:50] Before we get to our number one, we are naming our worst sports movie of all time.
[38:56] Yes.
[38:57] Now, this is purely subjective, and if you're listening to this and you made this film, Chief apologises.
[39:03] I do.
[39:04] But there's some shit ones out there, Chief.
[39:05] I can't even give you a line from it because, A, I don't think you'll know the movie, and B, there were no good lines in it.
[39:10] Okay.
[39:11] It's a 2000 movie about the sport.
[39:15] Of golf.
[39:16] Golf.
[39:17] Can't be tin cups.
[39:17] It's not tin cups.
[39:18] That's a quality film with Kevin Costner.
[39:20] Very funny.
[39:21] But again, a rom-com with a little twist.
[39:24] We need to do, at some stage, a big five Kevin Costner movies.
[39:27] That would be tough.
[39:29] That would be tough.
[39:29] Okay.
[39:30] So golf.
[39:30] In 2000, a movie by the name of...
[39:33] The legend of Bag of Vance.
[39:35] Oh, shit, Phil.
[39:37] Crap.
[39:37] Even the clothes they're wearing.
[39:39] Two of the biggest actors.
[39:40] Yes, I've seen this.
[39:41] Matt Damon and Will Smith.
[39:42] This is a good call by you.
[39:43] Will Smith plays this mysterious caddy Bag of Vance who gives wisdom.
[39:48] Crap, Phil.
[39:48] So Bobby Jones is the gun golfer of the time, and there's one other bloke whose name I forget.
[39:52] And Ranulf Jr., Ranulf Juna, who is Matt Damon, who is the local, and they have this big three-person playoff.
[40:00] Matt Damon's got the worst golf swing I've ever seen to play a professional golfer.
[40:04] You can't swing it like that and tell me he's hitting good shots.
[40:08] It is crap.
[40:09] Yeah, I've seen that.
[40:09] And I love both the actors.
[40:12] It had the potential to be a good show, but you can't with swings like that.
[40:17] You can't.
[40:17] You can't do it.
[40:18] It's an interesting one because there's two sport films I didn't put in, but I love both of them for their realism, and I think that's a key to a sports film.
[40:27] When you see you can't swing the golf club, you lose it.
[40:30] And here's the thing.
[40:31] $80 million budget, you know what it took?
[40:33] What?
[40:34] $35 million.
[40:35] Right, so it cost a lot.
[40:36] Big Raspberry.
[40:38] So two I didn't get in.
[40:40] Now I think about it, that for me it executed brilliantly because I love Formula One.
[40:44] Rush with Hemsworth in it, recreating what's happening between James Hunt and Nicky Lauder is an extraordinary film.
[40:53] I think it's even better than the current film,
[40:57] F1 would have had Brad Pitt in it, which is an outstanding film, and they filmed during Formula One events.
[41:03] Yep.
[41:03] So it's that realistic, but I couldn't squeeze the air of those in.
[41:06] Okay.
[41:07] Now, this...
[41:08] I want a real...
[41:09] So you knew immediately my crap movie.
[41:11] This better be bad.
[41:11] This is bad, right?
[41:13] And this has got, like Matt Damon, this has got an elite actor.
[41:17] In fact...
[41:18] This film has got an actor that starred in one of my 543 tours, and I got a line from it, and this summarises this film, Chief.
[41:28] Are you ready?
[41:30] Okay.
[41:31] What I do is I just try to take my hat and turn it around, and it's like a switch that goes on.
[41:38] And when that switch goes on, I feel like another person.
[41:41] I feel like a truck, like a machine.
[41:46] Oh, that rings a bell, but I can't get it.
[41:47] I turn my head around.
[41:48] Yeah, I know that.
[41:50] Chief.
[41:51] Oh, not over the top.
[41:52] Over the top with Sly.
[41:54] Arm wrestling.
[41:56] And he's in his big ring and he's got a set up where he can do weights on the pythons in his truck.
[42:01] Yeah.
[42:02] And, of course, Sly's like five foot nine.
[42:05] Yes.
[42:05] And he's giant and he's just going over the top, fusting it.
[42:08] Shocking film.
[42:09] He turns the cap backwards when he has the arm wrestle.
[42:12] He plays the character Lincoln Hawk.
[42:15] That's it.
[42:15] Now, I say this with great possible respect, but before bagging the film, Stallone got paid $12 million in the film and later said the film, I quote, wasn't executed properly.
[42:29] That's like saying, I did a lemon.
[42:31] Correct.
[42:32] All right, we come to it, Chief.
[42:34] Your number one.
[42:38] A bit of blondie.
[42:39] Yeah.
[42:40] Chief's number one.
[42:40] So you get your own little stinger on this one.
[42:42] This is your number one sports movie of all time.
[42:45] Yep.
[42:46] So we've spoken about different genres.
[42:47] I had one baseball movie in there.
[42:49] Yep.
[42:50] There's a boxing movie.
[42:51] There's a basketball movie.
[42:52] There's an athletics movie.
[42:53] Good switch.
[42:54] There had to be a football movie.
[42:56] Right.
[42:57] But which one?
[42:59] Because there are so many great footballers.
[43:01] You mentioned a couple of the time.
[43:02] Any given Sunday.
[43:03] Yes.
[43:04] Absolutely brilliant.
[43:05] Do it by inches.
[43:05] Mate, The Blind Side.
[43:08] One hell of a movie.
[43:10] My 16-year-old daughter, like Erica, said you've got to put the ice hockey film in, Youngblood.
[43:16] Skiesy said if you don't put The Blind Side in, you're not my dad anymore.
[43:21] And Dale never underestimated a movie called We Are Marshall, which was absolutely brilliant.
[43:24] I thought that's where you were going.
[43:25] No, no.
[43:26] I'm going.
[43:28] I'll give you the line.
[43:30] Left side.
[43:31] Strong side.
[43:35] Remember the Titans?
[43:37] Remember the Titans.
[43:38] How could you not?
[43:39] Left side!
[43:44] Strong side!
[43:46] Left side!
[43:47] Strong side!
[43:48] Number one, Chief, for Remember the Titans.
[43:51] Why?
[43:51] Extraordinary.
[43:52] The whole gamut of emotions in this, the racial tensions involved.
[43:56] So we're at a... Denzel Washington.
[43:58] Who's a brilliant actor, one of my favourite actors of all time.
[44:01] So we're at T.C.
[44:02] Williams High School, which is in Alexandra, Virginia.
[44:06] All the other schools, all the other high schools are whites only.
[44:09] This is an integration school.
[44:10] Based on a real story.
[44:11] Correct.
[44:12] We're sure about that, not like Jarrett Siffy.
[44:15] Very much so.
[44:16] And the two main characters are Gary Bertia, one of the captains who's white, and Julius Campbell, who's African-American, and one of the other team captains.
[44:26] And their relationship, they become best friends throughout all of this.
[44:29] But there's so much going on with the racism, with, again,
[44:34] The townspeople get involved in who's playing in what position and what's going on with the team and all these sorts of things.
[44:40] I thought it was absolutely brilliant.
[44:41] They make it through to some of the endearing pieces of it when he gets them up at 3am to run through the forest when they're on camp and he takes them to this cemetery about the... Battle of Gettysburg.
[44:54] Battle of Gettysburg, correct.
[44:55] History of America.
[44:56] Absolutely brilliant.
[44:58] And then they make it through to the semi-final of the state championships.
[45:02] Wow.
[45:03] And because he takes over, so Herman Boone, Denzel Washington, comes in and takes over from Yost.
[45:09] Coach Boone.
[45:11] And Coach Yost, who is...
[45:12] He's a white dude.
[45:13] White dude, correct.
[45:15] The powers that be tell him, don't worry, you're going to lose the semifinal.
[45:19] Boone's out, you'll be in and into the Hall of Fame.
[45:23] And that doesn't sit well with him because the refs are in on it and they're calling bad calls.
[45:27] So he pulls up the game and he goes out to one of the refs and says, call it straight.
[45:31] Classic scene.
[45:31] Or I'll expose you.
[45:32] I don't care if I go down as well.
[45:33] I'll expose you.
[45:34] Classic scene.
[45:34] So he's well and truly on Denzel's side.
[45:36] Correct.
[45:37] Because he's seen what he's done bringing everyone together.
[45:39] Ding!
[45:39] Didn't the star get injured?
[45:41] Didn't he get hit by a car or something?
[45:42] After the semifinal.
[45:43] Right, after the semifinal, before the final.
[45:45] Gets hit by a drunk driver.
[45:46] Out on the source.
[45:47] And then he's paralysed.
[45:48] Yeah, that's their full emotion.
[45:50] Really sad.
[45:51] Put it up.
[45:51] Who does go on to win a gold medal at the Paralympics in the shock putt.
[45:57] The bloke that got hit by the car.
[45:58] Yes, Gary Bateer.
[46:00] True story.
[46:00] True story.
[46:01] Do we need the tally room to adjudicate on that one?
[46:04] I don't think so.
[46:05] So you have gone Remember the Titans.
[46:08] And they go on to win the state title.
[46:11] I reckon Ryan Gosling, a young Ryan Gosling, was in that film.
[46:14] He's brilliant, isn't he?
[46:15] Yeah.
[46:15] Just some of the worst dancing you've ever seen.
[46:17] He's hilarious.
[46:17] He does.
[46:18] He's great.
[46:18] Right.
[46:19] Remember the Titans, number one for you.
[46:21] Put it up there, Chiefie.
[46:22] I will.
[46:23] Number...
[46:25] One.
[46:25] One.
[46:26] One.
[46:27] We're number one.
[46:28] Howie's number one.
[46:29] Okay.
[46:31] I spent a lot of time thinking about this, and I was the same.
[46:33] I had to put aside the same sports.
[46:38] So you went boxing, basketball.
[46:41] Baseball.
[46:42] Baseball, running, football.
[46:44] I've gone football.
[46:45] Football.
[46:47] Football, really, Jerry Maguire's a football film.
[46:50] Surfing.
[46:50] Boxing, football, surfing, baseball.
[46:52] With Point Break.
[46:52] Baseball with Field of Dreams.
[46:55] I, too, have gone with a football film.
[46:57] So I will have two football films in there.
[47:01] Okay.
[47:02] Here is the quote from this film.
[47:05] You blitz all night.
[47:07] If they cross the line of scrimmage, I'm going to take every last one of you out.
[47:11] You make sure they remember forever the night they played the Titans.
[47:17] It's the same movie.
[47:19] Say for me, Chiefie.
[47:19] There we go.
[47:20] Remember the Titans is my number one as well.
[47:23] All righty.
[47:25] Now, I don't want them to gain another yard.
[47:29] You blitz all night!
[47:31] If they cross the line of scrimmage, I'm going to take every last one of you out.
[47:35] You make sure they remember forever the night they played the Titans.
[47:45] I think a lot of people will have that up very high.
[47:48] Well, to the point, Chief, I did it and I wasn't convinced by it and I went back and watched it.
[47:54] No, I'm happy.
[47:55] I'm happy.
[47:55] And when Dendil took them through the Battle of Gettysburg scene and started pumping them up, that got me, Chief.
[48:03] Right.
[48:04] So that is what we think.
[48:06] So you've gone, list yours from five to one.
[48:08] Okay.
[48:08] Cinderella Man.
[48:09] Yep.
[48:10] Who's Hears.
[48:10] Yep.
[48:11] For Love of the Game.
[48:12] That's the one I'll get blowback on.
[48:14] Chariots of Fire and Remember the Titans.
[48:17] And again, we remember these are personal preferences.
[48:19] That's right.
[48:20] I've gone Rocky IV, Jerry Maguire, Point Break, which you didn't think was a sports film.
[48:25] Crime movie.
[48:27] Field of Dreams and Remember the Titans.
[48:30] So...
[48:31] Can we have a chat about your handwriting?
[48:33] Yeah, no, it's not good.
[48:34] It's not good.
[48:35] I've definitely been helped.
[48:37] It's not progressively worse if you've gone from five to one.
[48:40] I know.
[48:40] That's just pigeon scrawl, number one.
[48:42] I know.
[48:42] So good.
[48:42] No one will be able to remember.
[48:43] And what was your crap one?
[48:46] The Legend of Bagger Vance.
[48:47] And I went... Over the top.
[48:48] Over the top.
[48:50] Now, Cass needs to come in here.
[48:52] So what we did, we put out a survey.
[48:54] So there is a link on the show notes here.
[48:57] Oh, my God.
[48:58] Chief's just seen it and I think he's forgotten.
[49:00] We're way off base.
[49:01] So bring it in, Cass.
[49:02] We mentioned a few.
[49:03] Here we've got.
[49:03] You hold her up there, Chief.
[49:05] So the audience, we had over 3,000 votes.
[49:09] Yeah.
[49:09] At number five...
[49:11] The Blind So.
[49:11] I mentioned that.
[49:12] We mentioned that.
[49:12] We did mention that.
[49:13] Great movie, great movie.
[49:14] At number four.
[49:15] Cool Runnings.
[49:16] Cool Runnings.
[49:17] John Candy.
[49:18] The Jamaican bobsled team.
[49:20] Look after the egg.
[49:21] I would have never, ever even considered Cool Runnings.
[49:24] No, no, wouldn't have had it.
[49:26] I knew that would be there.
[49:27] Rocky comes in at number three.
[49:28] Yeah, I'm surprised you went Rocky four.
[49:29] Rocky was always going to be.
[49:30] No, no.
[49:31] It was always considered a classic.
[49:32] We mentioned Moneyball, great movie.
[49:33] Great movie.
[49:34] Great movie.
[49:35] Billy Bean, played by Brad Pitt.
[49:37] Yep, we did.
[49:38] And Jonah Hill, who was great in that.
[49:40] So I got some stats.
[49:41] So 14.3% of the audience, over 3,000 votes, went the blind side.
[49:46] Yep.
[49:46] I've got no problem with the blind side.
[49:47] Love it.
[49:48] 14.3%.
[49:51] I think.
[49:52] I can't put that in the classic.
[49:53] Well, 14.3% cool ratings.
[49:55] I think a lot of my mates.
[49:57] Down the coast might have sparked one up, Chief, and thought we're going to put cool runnings in.
[50:05] 19% went Rocky, the original Rocky, which is a great film.
[50:08] Great show.
[50:08] Just not as good as Rocky IV.
[50:10] Yeah, it's better.
[50:11] 21.4% went Moneyball.
[50:14] That's a clever movie.
[50:15] He reinvented the game.
[50:17] He changed the way people would recruit for the game.
[50:20] All right, Chief.
[50:22] At number one.
[50:24] 33.3% of you out there as your number one sports film.
[50:27] Are you going to put it on there?
[50:28] At all time, yep.
[50:29] Hold it over.
[50:29] Hand it over, Chief.
[50:30] 33.3% of you went...
[50:37] Remember the Titans.
[50:38] We've all got the same number one.
[50:39] How good's that?
[50:40] We're all the same.
[50:41] That is brilliant.
[50:42] We are all the same.
[50:43] So the people out there voted for Remember the Titans alongside Chief and I.
[50:49] The three quotes we've got from Remember the Titans.
[50:52] Cam Taylor from Botanic Ridge said, classic movie that not only has a great message about tolerance and acceptance, it also demonstrates the power of leadership.
[51:00] Yep.
[51:02] I can't believe we've all come up with the same thing.
[51:04] I can't believe there's no stand for the people's top five and it's getting hidden down there.
[51:08] Put it up on the table there for everyone watching on the tube.
[51:11] Alex from Thornbury.
[51:13] The deeper-rooted story that it told, the sport welcomes everyone and breaks down all barriers, which is good.
[51:19] Yep.
[51:19] And Jenny McLaughlin from Brisbane, I like this one the most as it was loosely based on such a pivotal moment in history, how the young people show those older and set in their ways that there is a better way to do things, based on the 1971 T.C.
[51:32] Williams high school football team and trying to integrate them.
[51:35] And I just love the endearing friendship between those two main characters in the team, Gary and Julius, brilliant.
[51:42] So to finish the Big Five initial edition sports movie, we go to the tally room.
[51:49] So MJ, our producer out there, now has the casting vote chief on whether he likes my selection more or whether he likes your selection more.
[52:00] See, MJ's too young.
[52:02] Now, all I'll say, are you there, MJ?
[52:04] Yeah, I'm here.
[52:04] Yep.
[52:05] All I'll say, MJ has produced this podcast from day one, the very first episode.
[52:12] So, Chief, if he doesn't favour mine, I'll be disappointed.
[52:17] So we go to the tally room for the final adjudication on who's his best sports movies.
[52:22] MJ, what are you going with?
[52:23] Well, I've had to go back into the numbers of what people put in.
[52:26] Some of the shows or movies that you haven't mentioned yet that featured heavily in the polling, Mighty Ducks, Space Jam, Invictus,
[52:32] Mighty Supreme, which is a newer one.
[52:34] Invictus I considered.
[52:36] The others were crap.
[52:36] Mighty Ducks, MJ.
[52:37] Don't bring that crap to the table.
[52:40] Space Jam.
[52:40] Space Jam.
[52:42] A cartoon.
[52:43] And I think a new category might have emerged, which is comedy sports movies.
[52:47] Happy Gilmore Caddyshack.
[52:48] Yes.
[52:48] Cracker Jack.
[52:49] So I deliberately left those out.
[52:51] In fact, we had a discussion about this before we did it.
[52:53] Because we feel it's a whole other category.
[52:55] Correct.
[52:56] Whole other category.
[52:57] Okay.
[52:58] And now to determine the winner, I was initially thinking...
[53:02] The fact that Chief had no Rocky movie in there whatsoever, my favourite's Rocky 3.
[53:06] To not feature a Rocky movie... Rocky 3?
[53:09] To not have any Rocky in the top five was a miss.
[53:13] but I've checked the polling and not one person in our thousands of thousands of votes had Point Break, which I think is officially a crime movie, so we've got to give the win to the Chief.
[53:26] Well done, Chiefie.
[53:27] I'm standing by you.
[53:29] If you want to get yourself involved, just look at the link in the show notes.
[53:32] There's the full voting system.
[53:34] Next week on The Big Five, we are doing Mail.com.
[53:39] sporting goats of all time.
[53:42] Yeah.
[53:42] Again, the amount of time I've already put into that and the field is ridiculous.
[53:49] Female sporting goats is coming, but up next it is male sporting goats.
[53:53] Hope you've enjoyed this version of the Big Five.
[53:55] Tell your friends, spread the word, and Chief, give your mother a hug.
[54:01] Now, we always finish the Howie Games with the same expression, and I need you to say it for me.
[54:05] What is it?
[54:06] I'm going to write it down, but I want to see you say this.
[54:08] So the Howie Games always finishes, which I'm not sure is you, but I want to hear you say it, and I want to see it on the tube.
[54:15] Hope you can read my writing.
[54:17] That is the end of the show.
[54:18] It's a very short break.
[54:22] Come on, Chief, you can do it.
[54:24] What's the sign for the first one?
[54:26] What is it?
[54:27] Peace and love.

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