5 Underappreciated Football Movies

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Making a good sports movie requires the ability to walk a thin line. These kinds of movies tend to need to pull out emotion in people in order to really resonate. Oftentimes, there also needs to be a way for people to feel as though they could be in the same situation in order to care about the characters. That often means that people need to feel as though someone like Mark Wahlberg is really just an average joe that somehow made it good.

Trying that hard to pull emotion out of people that are there to watch a football movie can sometimes lead to the producers of the directors of the sports movie to go a bit overboard and end up making something quite cheesy. Think of a film like Angels in the Outfield as one that tries to hit its mark but definitely overshoots into the land of the absurd. On the other hand, in the football genre, Sean Astin's Rudy is well known for making grown men cry. While those flicks are on the opposite end of the spectrum, there are plenty of underappreciated football movies out there that are worth seeing that manage to walk the line between sappy and sweet, compelling and over the top. For some reason, these five underappreciated football movies have been largely forgotten over the years.

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Long before Mark Wahlberg was cast to play Sully in the Uncharted movie, he took on a movie based on an entirely different game. Rather than playing a video game character, he took on the role of real life football player Vince Papale in Invincible. The movie definitely dramatizes it up a bit but it is based on the true story of Papale, who managed to make the Philadelphia Eagles after the team held an open try out under head coach Dick Vermeil.

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