So much so that it lends itself beautifully to some great movie moments that involve the world of sports.
Here are the Top Ten Chicago Sports Movie Moments.
10. Major League II
[Rick Vaughn is pitching to Jack Parkman during practice]
Jack Parkman: What do you call that garbage?
Rick Vaughn: It's my eliminator. I've got another pitch. You get a piece of it, I'll let you name it.
[Vaughn pitches and Parman hits the ball out of the park]
Jack Parkman: I'd, uh, call it the masturbator.
Good old Jack Parkman. Started the season with the Indians and eventually landed with the White Sox after Roger Doran decided to trade him.
There's a reason this guy ended up on the South Side. He'd fit right in with the current crew and I believe his character was loosely based on A.J. Pierzynski.
9. Blue Chips
When Pete Bell heads to the South Side of Chicago to scout Butch McRae (Penny Hardaway), he finds himself surrounded by college coaches from across the country trying to get a piece of the high school phenom.
I have to imagine this is what it was like when Derrick Rose was playing at Simeon.
8. Eight Men Out
Eight Men Out
The middle half hour of this movie shows how it all went down. How the players on the 1919 'Black Sox' team were suckered into throwing the World Series despite being the best team in baseball.
Some say the team was cursed after they disgraced the game of baseball. Luckily it was broken in 2005 when the Sox won the World Series. (Did I need to say that? No, but it just always feels so nice to say)
7. The Natural
The only reason why this scene is not higher up on this list is because it wasn't actually filmed in Chicago.
However, it's supposed to be Wrigley Field and to have it featured in one of the greatest scenes in one of the greatest baseball movies of all time is definitely worthy of making an appearance on this list.
6. Wayne's World
Game on!
Game off!
This never gets old. I still try to reference this scene whenever the situation calls for it.
5. Space Jam
Yeah, Space Jam. TTCS contributor Ricky O'Donnell's favorite movie of all time and that's not even a joke. That's the truth.
Look, anything to do with M. Jeff is solid gold in Chicago and Space Jam and it's ridiculously good soundtrack (Seal, R. Kelly, Quad City DJs??!!) definitely qualify.
4. Rookie of the Year
"Just float it Henry."The only time the floater pitch has been used in sports history to such perfection occurred in Wrigley Field. Although I'm pretty sure that's what Brad Lidge's pitch looked like to Albert Pujols back in 2004 during game 5 of the NLCS.
3. Brian's Song
One of the only movies about sports that allows a man to tear up.
Billy Dee Williams is the truth, that's all that you need to know.
2. Hoop Dreams
This movie showed the world what hoopin in Chicago was all about.
1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Skipping school.
Heading to Wrigley Field.
Hot Summer day.
Sitting in the bleachers.
Welcome to Chicago.
(BTW....this might be funnier because it's in German)
8 comments:
F.Y.I. Mr. Olsen, good hearing from you today by the way, Ferris, Cameron ans Sloan did not sit in the bleachers, they sat beyond the third base bag, down by the spot where Bartman fucked us a couple two-tree years back. Good post friend, good post.
When two of your top ten Chicago movies have about 2 minutes combined of actual sports (Ferris Bueller and Waynes World), and another is Major League II which is fucking awful you know your town needs better sports movies.
(Eight Men Out should have been #1)
This coming from a guy whose city is featured in....
Fever Pitch and Celtic Pride?!
And they're sports moments, not movies.
As in that one moment that typically only last for about two minutes.
Try again chief.
BLOG WAR!!!
The Germany clip is simply awesome.
Cameron sounds like he's saying "Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy"
I tastefully retract everything I posted and blame it on a lack of coffee. Also I wrote this at 745 in the AM. Lesson learned: Wake up before getting snippy on someone elses blog
I woulda had in the "There's no crying in baseball" scene in there somewhere.
That scene in Blue Chips was filmed at Mt. Carmel's gym. We played there once when I was in high school in the early 90's (about a year before Blue Chips would have filmed).
That was the most ridiculously small, old and creaky high school gym I ever played in. And for those reasons, it was also probably the coolest gym I ever played in.
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