# Signature films for professional sports franchises **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489 "2015-11-24T23:53:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489/43 "2015-11-29T15:55:54Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I have never heard of that movie, and I doubt anybody else has, either, but that commercial is so iconic, I won’t challenge your choice. I SAW the movie. The commercial was better. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489/44 "2015-11-29T17:06:45Z")
Houston Astros: “The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training.” ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489/45 "2015-11-29T17:07:08Z")
New Orleans Saints - [Number One](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064743/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489/46 "2015-11-29T17:08:22Z")
The movie for the Anaheim Angels should be “The Naked Gun.” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489/47 "2015-11-29T17:09:30Z")
How about “Black Sunday” for the Steelers or Cowboys? ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489/48 "2015-11-30T05:02:59Z")
The Cleveland Browns movie should be “Thr Fortune Cookie” a 1960s Jack Lemon Walter Mathau comedy about a photographer who gets run over on the sidelines by a Browns player and the lawsuit that followed. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489/49 "2015-11-30T21:30:01Z")
Atlanta Braves - _Slugger’s Wife_. As I remember it was a really weird concoction that had a rock star fall in love with a Brave’s pitcher and jinxes him by that falling in love. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489/50 "2015-11-30T21:52:46Z")
Tampa Bay Devil\* Rays - [The Rookie](http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0265662/#) ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489/51 "2015-11-30T22:04:54Z")
**A League of Their Own** for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489/52 "2015-11-30T22:24:43Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > **A League of Their Own** for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Mentioned in post #4, with respect to the Rockford Peaches. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489/53 "2015-11-30T22:35:39Z")
I had expected the Yankees, Dodgers or even the Cubs to have the most, but using my memory (granted, not fantastic) The Cards seem to have quite a few. \*Winning Team \*(about Grover Cleveland Alexander) starring Ronald Reagan featured mostly the St. Louis Cards but also had the Cubs in there. _The Monte Stratton Story_ starring James Stewart and June Allison also featured the Cards. _Strategic Air Command_ also starring James Stewart and June Allison (as I remember it) and the main character was a Card third baseman (when he wasn’t flying planes for SAC). _It Happens Every Spring_ A fun comedy about a physics professor who invents a substance which when applied to a baseball will cause it to avoid wood (i.e. baseball bats). It is a fun film starring Ray Milland as the inventor/pitcher and Paul Douglas as his catcher. I know the team featured is a St. Louis team, but I am not sure if it is the Cards or Browns. I lean toward the Cardinals because it is after the heyday of the Browns when it was made. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489/54 "2015-11-30T23:27:07Z")
\*Mr. Baseball \*starring Tom Selleck had two real baseball teams featured: The Detroit Tigers (I think), and the Chunchi Dragons of Nagoya Japan a very good professional team in Japan. For most iconic film about the Yankees, it could easily be either _The Babe Ruth Story_ (with William Bendix) or \* Safe at Home\* with Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris in key roles in the movie. If I remember correctly, Yogi was kind of key, too, but they didn’t let him say much. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489/55 "2015-12-01T23:33:00Z")
The Fabulous Freebirds - Highlander ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489/56 "2015-12-02T19:14:51Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Boston Red Sox - Fever Pitch Yeah, I’m pretty sure Red Sox nation generally says Thanks, but no thanks, to being represented by a poorly-done remake of a movie originally about Arsenal Football Club. Let Arsenal get the original movie, and for the Red Sox, just leave it blank, please, rather than this. > [@MovieMogul](#): > > San Francisco 49ers - **There’s Something About Mary** Was there something in this movie about the 49ers or even San Francisco, that I forgot? Set in Rhode Island and Miami, and with a small but key role played by a Green Bay Packer player, I’m not sure how it represents SF. If we include minor league, then college football and basketball have to come in, right? Notre Dame football has at least _Knute Rockne All American_, and _Rudy_, I think. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489/57 "2015-12-02T21:40:57Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > Was there something in this movie about the 49ers or even San Francisco, that I forgot? Set in Rhode Island and Miami, and with a small but key role played by a Green Bay Packer player, I’m not sure how it represents SF. Mary: “What did I tell you the first time we met? I’m a Niners fan!” > [@](#): > > If we include minor league, then college football and basketball have to come in, right? > > Notre Dame football has at least _Knute Rockne All American_, and _Rudy_, I think. And I guess **Forrest Gump** for Alabama. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-films-for-professional-sports-franchises/738489.md?page=2)