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welcome to watch mojo and today
we're counting down our picks for the
top 10 sports movies where the team
loses
get on up it's fun time
it's not about that scoreboard out there
it's not about winning
for this list we'll be looking at the
endings of sports movies wherein the
protagonists do not ultimately emerge
victorious
and even though it's in the title films
don't have to center on team sports to
merit inclusion so
single sports like boxing are fair game
naturally the list is going to be one
giant spoiler so you have been warned
what sports movie loss was the most
devastating for you
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number 10 a league of their own are you
crying
are you crying there's no crying
there's no crying in baseball as we'll
see with many entries on this list
the final game of a league of their own
is about as close as it can be
this fictionalized retelling of the
inaugural season of the all-american
girls professional baseball league
follows the rockford peaches
led by gina davis's superstar catcher
dottie hinson
as they push the racine bells to a
decisive game seven
in it dotty gets the go-ahead rbi in the
top of the ninth against her sister kit
kit forever in the shadow of her sister
gets the chance to redeem herself by
miraculously hustling for an inside the
park home run
high fastballs can't hit him can't lay
off
the throw beats her to the plate but the
collision knocks the ball out of
dottie's glove
sealing the championship for the bells
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number nine mystery alaska something
else we'll be seeing on this list are
small
upstart squads that come out of nowhere
to challenge the big dogs and it doesn't
get any more nowhere than the fictional
town of mystery alaska where the
propensity for quality amateur hockey
draws the interest of major league
talent
i play hockey and i fornicate because
it's the two most fun things in cold
weather
mystery manages to get the new york
rangers of the nhl to fly in for an
exhibition game
though they at one point surrender five
straight goals the mystery boys storm
back in the final minutes
they line up the game tying shot but the
puck ultimately bangs off the crossbar
as time expires
though defeated mystery proves they
belong on the same ice
and two of their stars even get inducted
into new york's farm system
number eight whip it
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we've all had to navigate schedule
conflicts but usually the conflicting
things aren't a beauty pageant and a
roller derby
roller derby however that's exactly the
position the teenaged bliss is faced
with at the end of whip it
though bliss would rather compete at the
roller derby championship
pressure from bliss's domineering mother
forces the teenager to do the other
compassion wins the day however as
bliss's father convinces his wife
that their child's happiness is the most
important thing
i cannot take losing the chance for our
kid to be happy
again donning the moniker babe ruthless
bliss and the rest of the hurl scouts
come close to victory
but more importantly come together as a
team just like the beginning of the film
we are again inspired by their positive
post-game attitude
number seven friday night lights to me
being perfect is not about that
scoreboard out there
it's not about winning there's the old
adage that says football is a game of
inches
and never is that more evident than at
the end of friday night lights
though the film veers quite a good deal
from the real events upon which it is
based
what transpires on screen makes for
truly exciting drama
playing in front of 55 000 for the state
championship the permian panthers are
initially severely outmatched against
the much larger
dallas carter cowboys in proper sports
movie fashion
an inspiring halftime speech gives
permian the drive they need to claw back
in the game
i want you to put each other in your
hearts forever
because forever is about to happen here
in just a few minutes it all comes down
to the last play
as permian scrambles to find the end
zone
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when the dust settles it's revealed they
came just inches
short absolutely devastating
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number six kingpin we move over to
single sports now with this comedy cult
classic
years after losing his right hand
bowling phenom roy munson looks to
reclaim his shot at glory
by coaching amish prospect ishmael to a
one million dollar jackpot at a
tournament in reno okay you want a bowl
for some big money hey
but uh i'll lose my entire bonus check
cause i'm so bombed
as fate would have it however ishmael
breaks his hand in a freak wall punching
accident
a real munson
with ishmael in his corner it's instead
roy who enters the tournament
using his rubber prosthetic hand to get
the job done we don't quite know how
that works but roy manages to bowl his
way into the final against the man
responsible for his injury roy has the
lead in the final frame but mccracken
bowls three strikes in a row to win by a
single pin
number five bring it on even in
competition there are more important
things than winning such as the respect
for oneself and one's opponent
in bring it on the rancho carne toros
cheer squad must rediscover that respect
upon learning their previous routines
were lifted from those of the east
compton clover squad
our game is bad we're without fear so
get that weak man
out of here don't you look like [ __ ] but
we're the ones who are down with it
newly appointed captain torrence shipman
looks to rectify her predecessor's
cheating ways
but there are some serious speed bumps
along the way you want to make it right
then when you go to nationals bring it
don't slack off because you feel sorry
for us that way when we beat you
we'll know it's because we're better at
nationals the new look toros ultimately
seed their titles to the clovers
however now that the toros have an
identity of their own the two squads are
able to overcome their strife and come
together in the spirit of friendly
competition i respected you guys get out
there
you guys were good thanks you were
better
we were huh
number four tin cup give me another ball
take a drop roy roy just give me another
ball
winning a title certainly puts you in
the record books but it's the individual
moments that people remember
case in point no one thought roy mcavoy
would be in contention for the us open
in 1996's tin cup but it wasn't his
final score that shocked them
when faced with the same shot on the
18th hole he missed the last three days
roy foregoes his lead and goes for it
again only for it to land squarely in
the water once more
rather than press on and accept the tie
roy goes for it continuously
miraculously managing to get it in the
hole on his last ball
despite roy losing handily his love
interest molly puts it best in
describing what he's achieved
no one's going to remember the open five
years from now who won who lost but
they're going to remember
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is another biographical sports film that
fudges the truth for the sake of
suspense
but we're not gonna let that keep us
from cheering fact or fiction
an olympic bobsled team from jamaica is
a cinderella story just by getting to
the big dance
let alone actually contending however
the dramatization in this disney classic
certainly made us believe
maybe not on their first day but
definitely on their second
on the last run the jamaicans look
poised to finish in record time
but tragedy strikes when their sled
crashes unscathed and undeterred
the bobsledders carry their sled across
the finish line on foot
their determination more than earning a
slow clap
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number two the bad news bears when it
comes to sports movies
there's no zeros to hero story quite
like the bad news bears
the peewee bears are the definition of a
hopeless team forfeiting their first
game before they even get the chance to
bat
it's a forfeit we fall for the game you
forfeit yeah
that's it that's a game yet somehow with
a roster of misfits and a drunken coach
they're able to turn their season around
in a hurry okay
okay with the help of a couple of
ringers which are staples in the sports
movie genre look bullet maker you're not
my father and i ain't interested in
playing baseball for you anymore
so why don't you get back into that
sardine can of yours and go go vacuum
the bottom of the pacific ocean i've got
business take care
though the bears have a title victory in
their sights coach buttermaker rightly
realizes winning is in everything
and subs his bench warmers in so
everyone can have fun
the bears of course lose but they
certainly celebrate like they won
with beer showers
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
north dallas 40. dallas fumbles what
would have been a game-tying p-a-t
the ball gets away from harvard it's on
the ground chicago recovers
the game is over the chicago marauders
have held off
the north dallas rally to win 14-13
and what a finish eddie the eagle his
landing isn't pretty but at least he
recovers
coach carter they lost in the playoffs
but one in school
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moneyball the a's won 20 in a row but
still lost 3 out of 5 in the playoffs
with the minnesota twins exposed
is the fact that the oakland a's were
fundamentally
not a sound baseball team before we
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number one rocky the best picture winner
from 1976 will likely go down as the
definitive sports movie
and what people think of when
protagonists lose at the end of one
the ultimate underdog rocky balboa an
ostensible nobody from the streets of
philadelphia
is granted a match against heavyweight
boxing champion apollo creed
pure and simple nobody expects rocky to
contend but he sees it as an opportunity
to make something out of himself
he trains and trains and trains some
more and his tenacity ensures he only
loses to creed
via a split decision though he really
couldn't care less
it's such a memorable outcome that the
franchise replicated it in later
installments rocky balboa
and creed you're a great champion
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