The 10 Most Unrealistic Sports Scenes In Movie History

I mentioned Teen Wolf in the opening. This list is for scenes that are supposed to be realistic, but turn out terribly unrealistic.

Was Rocky IV too unrealistic to make the cut? I loved the movie but Stallone and Lundgren traded about 500 punches that would have individually ended any real boxing match.

Watch Lyotto Machida vs Randy Couture and tell the crane kick isn’t real.

Sudden Death, Jean-Claude Van Damme pretends to be the Penguins goalie to escape the bad guy and ends up on the ice to make a save.

With regards to Tin Cup: A club I play golf at rather frequently (my dad's a member) actually has a plaque on the 10th hole where someone made a double-eagle from about 225 yd. (I can't remember the actual distance, but it's on the plaque.) Just goes to show that, while improbable, sinking shots from that distance is possible.

In the end scene, where he’s not a werewolf

Did you read thr first part?

Here the real crane kick, UFC style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsgorLszGkw&am…

Whoa, Side Out! Great call! This is why I said for people to leave omissions in the comments.

I feel like an idiot for not including this one, at least as an honorable mention. Well done.

There's no making out between rival drivers as they cross the finish line either.

Quack Quack Quack. The entire series of Mighty Ducks movies.

Actually the hole-out from 235 is the least unrealistic thing about that scene from Tin Cup! The most ridiculous thing was his first shot that landed on the green and then spun back into the water as if he hit a wedge and not the 3 wood that he did hit and would've have never backed up like that. The hole-out was possible, the string-pull with a 3 wood – not so much.

Dennehy's backhand reminds me of this Stone Cold stunner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LFu8ijfo-k

Any sports movie where the big dramatic play is shown in slow motion, but the in-movie commentators are commenting at regular speed. A 6-second play somehow has 45 seconds of commentary over it.

Those are amazing. I'd love watch sorts scenes in movies. I love damage's scenes though it's not supposed to be a sports movie.

on foot

As previously noted, not just once but twice the Crane kick has been used to finish an opponent in MMA (UFC). Machida KO'd Randy Couture and Anderson Silva KO'd Vitor Belfort. Both fights are very recent. Crazy thing is for both fights, both fighters credit STEVEN SEGAL, for the move.

What about the final hole from Happy Gilmore?

You can add the new Karate Kid movie in there with that little Smith kid doing a complete backflip while kicking his opponant in the face and then landing on the same leg. Ridiculous. Even more then the orginal Karate Kid.

What about the kid from Rookie of the Year breaking his arm on the field to correct his ligaments healing wrong and then striking out a MLB batter with a softball-esque floater?

Goldie Hawn as a high school football coach in Wildcats? Or that fat guy jumping high enough to block a field goal?

How about the scene in "Legend of Bagger Vance" when Walter Hagan walks out to what appears to be an estuary and hits the golf ball back onto the green? Wouldn't that have been out of bounds?

In "The Greatest Game Ever Played", I'm pretty sure it'd have been impossible for Ted Ray to hit a golf ball through a dictionary-sized book. In a bar, while drunk, off a shot glass, no less.

I know Forrest Gump isn't a sports movie, but the scene when the Alabama fans show the word "Stop" when Forrect is returning kickoffs for the Crimson Tide to stop him from running through and over the marching band. Like Forrest would look behind him to see them say stop.

Go back and watch Vision quest one of the best wrestling movies made. But the final scoring sequence is all wrong. Two points should have been given for the take down. the match would have been over.

Water hazards aren't out of bounds and you can always play them where they lie. That he went out there and hit it is plausible, they go down to the seaside at Pebble Beach. The part that is terrible in that movie is when the fictional Bobby Jones tells Junah to not call himself for hitting a moving ball. The problem with this is that Jones had this happen to him in the US Open and nobody saw it except him. How then do I know it happened if no one saw it? Because Bobby called it on himself. It was a one stroke penalty and he ended up in a playoff he lost. A writer complimented him on his action and Jones said, "you might as well praise me for not robbing banks." Incidentally his playing partner was Walter Hagen. That is the worse than the stupid Tin Cup shot.

wow no Rocky?? but yeah i mean rocky is way more beleivable then tin cup

This is the worst list ever made. Seriously. Think of more movie most people haven't seen and put them on this list.

Ummmm… They are MOVIES! They are all fictional stories meant to emit a certain emotion from the audience. If you want real or believable then go watch a documentary or see a real sporting event.

Invictus' portrayal of rugby was pretty atrocious.

For those of you that commented on Happy Gillmore/Mighty Ducks/Talladega Nights….. WHAT PART OF COMEDIES DON'T COUNT did you not understand?

You talked about Karate Kid part 1 but what about two and three where he fought a ninja in a death match and a hired assasin???????

"Airborne", had too many impossible plays for "Moon Doggie" to do.

The course they played was in Calf. and the beach is open to the hole not out of bounds. Same as pebble beach when Tom Waston hit his shot from the beach a few years back !

Karate Kid II was way more unrealistic. He has to fight a man to the death for the glory of love. Everyone knows, in the Far East, the glory of love usually costs less than $100. Hardly something to kill over.

I guess that POCONO is a road course as is INDY as is Martinsville and when did you drive?

I had it on my list mainly because Tom Cruise is like 5'6" and supposedly is able to spike a volleyball. I left it out because Slider was a surprisingly competent volleyball player.

Actually at Pocono some drivers choose to shift in turn three (not a road course).

Okay, I'm a little older than most here I suppose. But did anyone ever see "Fear Strikes Out?" Tony Perkins (Psycho) played troubled 50's Red Sox shortstop Jimmy Piersall. It was an interesting story, but there was one big problem: Perkins couldn't even throw a basebal. To say he "threw like a girl" would be an affront to women.
Every sports scene involving Perkins was totally unbelievable.

Ok, I'm a bit buzzed, so I apologize for stating that it's not called a crane kick, when it is, however that does not negate the point of comparing it to the "Karate Kid" scene…

seriously? UFC? UFC isn't any more realistic than the crap on this list. anyone who's ever been in a fight should be able to easily recognize that all but maybe 2 or 3 punches and kicks in each match are pulled. they do just enough every now and then to draw blood. compare the injuries professional boxers get to the injuries UFC "fighters" get and then think about the different gloves they use. if you cant figure out just from the glove size compared to the injuries that its largely fake, then you need some help.

rocky was the worst boxing movie ever, he gets his but kicked in every last one then some how he comes back to win. yeah right.

Speak for yourself man!

How about "Fear Strikes Out". Tony Perkins throws like a girl, runs like a girl and swings like a person who never saw a bat. The most unathletic actor ever. Jimmy Pearsall is rolling over in his grave.

Mighty Ducks and the infamous Flying V or Flying Wedge or whatever the heck it was called that they did.
Of course in the same movie, you cannot forget the knuckle puck either.
I understand its a kid movie but what a laugh.
The hardest part I have coaching kids in hockey is to absolutely forget EVERYTHING you ever saw in the Mighty Ducks movie.

Transporter 2 the car flip can anbody really predict that the car is gonna do a flip and knock a bomb off by hitting a freakin crane hook just right and land perfectly without any damage to the car whatsoever Bo and Luke Duke eat your heart out see what a European car can do with half the horsepower of the General Lee !!!!

Rocky has some of the most unrealistic boxing scenes ever. Stallone at times just takes punch after punch without putting his gloves up.

You got Served

Hey, all I can say is that's Hollywood. Many movies don't require the watcher to think too hard or have a critical eye. They are supposed to entertain you and hook into your dreams. They lack reality so the little wins, the not so physically gifted scores, the wallflower scores the stud or studette etc. When you go to a magic show do you allow yourself to be entertained or do you miss most of the show because you try and figure out the tricks. As for me, I lead a rich fantesy life. Everyday reality mostly bites.

we used to do the flying v with my tournament teams (from 12-u thru 17-u) when we were close to mercy-ing the other team. opposing teams hated us, but we had to do something to entertain ourselves when smashing other teams.

Conversely, the MOST realistic sports movie was "The Bad News Bears." (The superior 1976 original, not the crummy Billy Bob Thornton remake.)
The scenes with Vic Morrow were downright chilling. The way he used negative reinforcement to goad his team (KIDS, mind you!): "If you lose this game, you'll have to live with it the rest of your life!" In the big game scene, the bratty pitcher picks a fight with the fat catcher, then tries to bean him. Morrow rushed out and SLAPPED the pitcher (his own kid!) to the ground.
Yes, Little League parents often DO act like cold-blooded, overly-competitive JERKS. And the movie wisely portrayed the "Yankees" (Little League team) as arrogant, hateful and hated…just like the "real" Yankees.

What about any basketball scene from White Men Can't Jump? OK. don't count the scene where Sydney is tanking on purpose. Every other time it's like the Washington Generals are stunt doubling for the losing team.

Then there is Remember the TItans where "Sunshine" ducks under the middle linebacker's rush, and that, basically a fall from 4-5 ft in full protective gear, somehow knocks the kid out of the game.

Finally, Top Gun. Everyone knows Tom Cruise is too short to spike a volleyball if he were buck-a naked and jumping off a trampoline. In the sand wearing jeans … no chance. Then they all, at some point, dive into the sand to save the ball. Yet seconds later, oiled up as they are, not a grain of sand on them. But mainly it's just general principle. This scene is so disturbing it needs to be on any list of sports dishonor.

All right fine. If that's your attitude, "evoke" is the word you were looking for, not "emit." "Emit" is something you do. For example, the commenter emitted the usual comment-board, douchebag point of view. "Evoke" is something that is inspired in others.

And, ummmm … this is a blog post and comment section. It is meant to inspire a discussion and hold interest.

The worst thing about the ending to "The Natural" was the entire ending. It had absolutly nothing to do with how the novel on which it was based ended. In it, Hobbs took the dive. Disappointed all of the children of the world and was banned from baseball and all of his records stricken from the books. That is a lessen that kids need to be taught about cheating. Not that if you hit the ball into the lights setting off a fireworks display that all will be right with the world.

Are you high? Or some type of conspiracy theorist? Boxers get knocked down, have time to gather themselves, get back up, get pummeled on some more, go down, get up etc. Of course boxers generally show more damage, MMA fiights are stopped before their brains have a chance to get scrambled, the first time the fighter gets knocked out. Have you ever been choked out? Or received an arm bar? You can win a fight without ever even throwing a punch

Hey Joe B, I can't disagree with you on Anthony Perkins, but the last I saw, Jimmy Pearsall is alive and well and still sticking it to the Man!

Tom Cruise is to short to spike a volleyball? By that logic I guess Spud Webb shouldn't have been able to dunk a basketball, but some how he one at least one slam dunk competition.

Hit the nail on the head, Steve too.

Good call on The Replacements. I considered it but ultimately left it off the list. Definitely unrealistic, though.

how about jerry maguire and the cuba gooding catch and dance

number 9 i guess you never saw Randy Couture vs. Lyoto Machida

FU

Rocky has em all beat…..everyone loves a cinderella story…..

zingggggg of the day!!!!

if you are a fan of MMA you will know how ironic your karate kid comment is. The match between machida and coture, sadly randy’s last fight, silenced 30 years of laughing at the “crane kick” .With the brash young newcomer vs. The grizzled vet, It couldn’t have been a better situation of life imitates art.

The ending to Miracle was so typical a Hollywood ending. With some of the other flicks on this list, I am surprised you left it out…

If your talking about Miracle, the hockey movie, thats a true story. At least thats what i was lead to believe@!

How about the scene where Mookie Wilson hits a ground ball thru Buckner's legs and the Red Sox lose ??? Oh wait THAT REALLY DID HAPPEN!! The Red Sox suck

Gracias Mike… lo que dices es correcto.. Este amigo solo quiere que su nombre aparesca y su ego lo lleva a decir puras estupideces.. que no tendrán otra cosa que hacer…?

cool story bro..

agree with "killed the moment he removes his shirt"

ur a dumb ass racist

Because those are epic and classic.

That is a funny comment. When it happened it seemed to be so ridiculous that it didn't seem real

The Natural shouldn't have been listed on here, and I don't have a problem with Tin Cup either, I could see someone like John Daly pulling a stunt like that .However…movies you missed. Any Rocky Movie (i'm amazed none are listed) and Days of thunder immediately come to mind.

I was going to make the same comment….

Machida sure as shit did it, writer probably never even trained in any martial art and maybe has a schoolyard fight or two lol

you cared enough to post…. so your just as much of a dumbass

Hey your wrong when it comes to the movie Tin Cup…. Roy never finished the round; after sinking the shot he walks to the pin and retrives his ball then throws the ball in the water hazard. So technically he never qualified for anything.

hey why does everyone scream racist all the time its really getting old. now i wouldnt use that word or nig*** or cracker, either, but why do spanish or mexican people get bent over that? what does it mean? im asking a legit question and want an answer to understand it. my mexican friends, and i have 2 good ones, have no idea! but liberal america has told them to be pi ss ed off! so they are like sheep. i think its a derivitive of word hispanic. and everyone is out of freakin control! and john, just because he used a widdle word you dont understand, why would you call him dumb? thats not true. i mean i could think your a crybaby idiot but it would not be true because of it. liberal name calling is out of control and non productive. you people calling names are doing the exact same thing you cry about! does hypocrisy know no bounds? i mean dumb ass is as derogatory as racist ignorant uneducated schmuck and spic or nig ger or cracker. i just think you racers are just plain silly over this…. i mean sticks and stones people! jeez grow up babes plz!

Reseda has tough guys?

Miracle was a true story it acally happened in 1980 Winter Olympics You might want to to look it up. This list is all fictional movies.

the really funny thing is those azzholes really believed there was a curse…no curses the just sucked monkey kock all those years

How could you leave off Rocky? There is no way a fight would be allowed to continue as in the original with that much blood.

what about wesley snipes character knocking out the heavyweight chapion of the world, and anything leon kennedy isaac was in that he was a winner at.

Yeah…but what about those "amazing" losers mets? does 12 games ahead of philly with 20 games to go rings a bell? and the 2000 subway series? THE YANKEES TOOK MANHATTAN more easily than the MUPPETS did ahahahahaha (y)

Stealing home is not impossible.Jackie Robinson did just that when he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Or his he the wrong color to given this credit. There have been many unbelievable great plays made in all sports. By many different players. To bad you can only see what race they are.

Every scene of every movie is not necessarily supposed to be believable. The Natural was supposed to have a supernatural, fantastic element to it. The home run light show fit perfectly within that context. (By the way, just so you know, Field of Dreams was not supposed to be taken literally, either. I'd say a bunch of ghosts playing baseball was a lot less believable than any of the scenes you describe in this article).

Actually, the best pitching ever in a movie was Charlie Sheen. Even in slo mo he looked every bit a real pitcher. He actually threw the ball at 85mph, which in Hollywood seems like 110mph. Whatever you thought of the movie, His was the best actor pitching I've seen. Tom Selleck wins for most beilevable batter. Can't remember the movie name, but he played in Japan.

I agree with your analysis of the list as unrealistic but when I watch a film I have to suspend my disbelief. These films exagerate the effect for emotion and dramatic reasons. Watching some of the clips again, such as, The Nature or Tin Cup I was able to relive the emotion which is what film is all about. Films like Any Given Sunday try to place us into the action with editing, music and meladrama which is what films do. If I want realism I'll watch ESPN but for entertainment I watch a good ole' American film

Norton would NOT have been killed instantly, NAZIs run shit in jail!

one time greens keeper about to become the masters champion
"It's in the hole!"

I'm with Gator on this one…Yes this is a true story but the actual USA/USSR game wasn't the way they made it out to be.I have the actual footage of the match and it is too hollywood.eg Jack O'Callahan's character had his helmet off when he celebrated,in real life its on.When Jim Craig is looking for his dad with the girl after they win the gold he finds him and waves,in real life he didn't find him.Good movie though.

How could anyone leave out Million Dollar Baby from a list of turkeys? Clint Eastwood is great but that
movie sucked.

How bout the coyote in the Roadrunner cartoons. He has a 5,000 lb rock fall on him from about half a mile up, and the next scene he's fine and without a mark. Kill me.

LMAO Thor. Not a baseball fan but that post is hilarious

Have you seen "For Love of the Game"? I watched the special features on the DVD, and Kevin Costner did about 90% of the pitching in that movie. He really is a good pitcher, great baseball player, period.

a 12 year olds fastball…..people get beaned with 95 mph heaters every day…..Ive only ever seen one bean ball obituary….

that scene did not take place in jail, they were on a playground by the beach, go watch the movie

Sheen also admitted he did a roids cycle for that movie so he could get over 80 on the gun. The Selleck movie was Mr. Baseball and had some of the best one-liners as the Japanese players try to learn american baseball phrases and mess tem up.

What about Field Of Dreams??? Wanna talk unreallistic, Costner playing baseball with resurrected, iconic baseball players in their prime.. Still I love the movie, I always get choked up when Ray says “Hey Dad, wanna have a catch?”

These are movies, they contain guns that never run out of ammunition (one of my pet peeves), ugly/poor guys getting the beautiful women, cars that explode because they fall or roll over and sex scenes with people falling on the floor and continuing to ‘engage’ (well trained porn stars would have to call for a time out). Relax, enjoy movies for what they are, entertainment.

Right. Mr. James doesn't know golf. The hole out was on the 72nd hole of the tournament, so his final round and tournament was over. Tin Cup could do anything he wanted with his holed golf ball, including throwing it in the lake.

I would have to say the scout with Brendan Frasier throwing an 81 pitch perfect game with 27 K's, that has to be the most unrealistic!

Sheen and Costner both did admirable jobs pitching. I read that Costner also hit a legitimate home run in batting practice while filming the movie.

Definitely. A couple people have mentioned it in the comments below, and you're absolutely right. I missed that one big-time. The whole movie is awful and unrealistic, and Fraser's hair looks so awkward under a baseball hat.

How about "Vision Quest"? Only Hollywood could have that dork pinning the returning State champion. As an ex-wrestler, coach, and fan I liked the movie but there is no way that one trick pony beats the stud.

The Movie "Just Wright" Not possible… Common hit Latifah??? We know what team she plays on…

Now THAT was funny!! Thank you!

What about that movie *61 about Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris….like anyone who was not on HGH could have hit that many homers in a single season! Total fiction!!

Every sports scene from Forrest Gump has to be at the top of the list from running no-stop for several years, to ping pong, to his football prowess.

As soon as the player removes the ball from the cup, the hole is over…. and in the case in the movie, it meant the end of the tournament for McAvoy.

What did you think he had to do with the ball??

DIGGSTOWN!!!

Awesomely funny. I guess nobody appreciates sarcasam any more.

they didnt have hgh in 1961 u momo

How about a tag team match featuring Humpty Dumpty and Pinocchio vs. Wiley Coyote and Bugs Bunny?

get off your fucking high horse you self-important douche.

Really?! It DID?!?!

His comment was funny. You'll probably insist it wasn't, because you clearly didn't get it. But it was. You would think as a writer you would understand comedy.

I havent read all the way through so dunno if its been mentioned. BUT,. The most unrealistic movie and scenes are from the very classic Vision Quest. I was a wrestler back in the day,lol. And there is NO WAY that Mathew Modines character whom only was in his 2nd yr. of Wrestling in HS. could EVER beat a 2-3 time state champion Chute. Whats even more ridiculous is that the entire movie is about him LOSING weight to drop down to Chute's weight class. WHy is it stupid? Because Chute is already about twice the size of Modines small character,lol. Anyway all of us wrestlers love this movie, but the end is bullshit!!

Don’t forget the entire premise of Rookie of the Year: A 12 year old boy named Henry Rowengarner jacks up his shoulder and because of his injury he miraculously ends up with the ability to throw 100 mph gas. He somehow gets picked up by the Cubs and is immediately placed on the 25 man roster, where without missing a beat he becomes the team’s closer. He singlehandedly gets the Cubs to the playoffs and, after losing his powers by tripping over a stray baseball, he (taking the advice of his mother in the upper deck, whose lips he could somehow read perfectly) ends the movie by striking out a league leading slugger with a slow pitch softball throw.

Yeah, the net in that scene is somewhere around 6'8" or so. A WOMEN's volleyball net is ~7'4" and a men's net is ~8'… None of the volleyball in the scene is very good. Unfortunately for the volleyball community, there is little to no good volleyball in films (despite beach volleyball originating in California)

Not that happy gillmore was meant to be taken serious anyway but after he hits it in deep rough over water and trys to get out? he whacks the ball 4 or 5 times then proceeds to hit it into the water. when they show score being posted he only drops 1 stroke? what was it a par 9?

poop stinks

jimmy piersall played outfield

In the natural the fact that his wonderboy bat lasted 40 years of baseball (possibly 60years as old as roy hobbs looked) without breaking till the last at bat of his career. Of course the lightning infused wood may have made his bat like thor's hammer.

You're a liar

Don't forget the movie 'Side Out'. Painfully, one of the worst movies ever. How can 2 nobody with zero volleyball skills go and win the Jose Cuervo beach volleyball tournament. They even showed (in slow motion) a set that was a double. As strict as the umps are with calling sets, they should have been called for one and game over. Lame. If it wasn't for the beach setting and the ability to see some real pro beach volleyball players (e.g. Stoklos, Sinjin, etc.) it would have been a bigger diaster.

Watch the 30 in 30 film about Chuck Wepner. He did not take as many but Clay tried to knock the shit out of him. After Clay went down (it looked like a slip or trip to me), he was really pissed. Now to you point the champ did end up with the KO in 15 but it is interesting to see. The thinkg that bothered me about Rocky was that he didn't defend.

L O L

Best Boxing Movie….Cinderella Man. Baer was not correctly portrayed, but the boxing scenes were outstanding.

You shouldn't exist.

You forgot the fight scene at the end of Youngblood!

The crane kick did happen. At least without the arms in the air.
http://www.vidivodo.com/574804/knockout-kick-_-randy-couture-vs-lyoto-machida

Karate Kid doesnt belong on this list!! PERFECT MOVIE !!!!! SMH @ U

The end of Kung Fu Panda still pisses me off! How the hell did the Panda beat Tilon??

GET HIM A BODY BAG!

U R 100% CORRECT

I thought that the scene where Damon Wayans threw a football 80 yards into the air to stop a bullet at precisely the right moment was a little more far-fetched than the scene you mentioned.

you left out the scene in that movie where the other team would win the game by taking a knee, but instead decides to run the ball and accidently fumbles giving the titas a chance to win

THE most ridiculous boxing scene is from Rocky 3. Clubber Lang looks like he's giving himfelf whiplash out of time with the punches Rocky is throwing.

"White" tight end? What the hell does race have to do with the obsurdity of that scene? Owen Daniels, Brent Celek, Dallas Clark — all white, and all very good at running and catching.
Your crack about Reeves was spot on, though.

You're right. I loves me some Rocky movies but IV is a bit too much. The final fight was like 15 rounds of Hagler-Hearns.

You are funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!

…and how about that game winning penalty shot! The drama of waiting to see if a slow-motion, spinning puck that's already completely over the goal line (and thus a goal) will actually stop spinning and land fully over the goal line… as if that f'in matters at all! I'm a huge hockey fan and every f'in scene in Youngblood is so f'in unrealistic that I can't help but watch and laugh every time I run across it on cable.

Since the 15 car airborne wreck that cost a driver his live recently, some of the Driven crashes don't look so unrealistic anymore

hilarious!

At least that was funny!

Bullshit. That was a back leg power frontkick. A real Crane Kick used in Wushu is a kick executed by hopping off one leg, kicking with that leg, and landing on that same leg. In Karate Kid, this was supposed to protect his bad leg and still score. However, if you look close, he didn't pull it off as he lands on his bad leg.

Ever heard of the Miracle in the Meadowlands?

I agree with Paul who commented earlier that the Rocky movies have the most unrealistic boxing scenes with the surreal punishment that a person's body could withstand.

On another note, I know it would not be considered a qualifying sports scene since it came from a comedy, but what about the Triple Lindy dive (3 separate springboard jumps) performed by Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School, a 1980's flick. Improbable and highly dangerous, but it was funny with trick photography.

Exactly! I was waiting for someone to mention this!

Funny ass take on KarateKid 2, by the way, the "Crane kick" could work, especially in that moment of the scene but you can't score above the neck or below the waist in tournament karate

What about when Buckner let the ball go through his legs in '86??YAH, THAT could happen!!

Wait, what? THAT wasn't a movie???

HOw about the Oopty-Oop from Varsity Blues?! Solid play.

"Gus"—the kicking mule–mules can't kick field goals wqith their hind legs.

what about "vertical limit". all the movie is a bullshit, but the biggest shit is chriss o'donell jumping to a mountain cliff with this ice axes!!

Come on, this is the U.S.A., where people (yes, almost entirely women, but that's what we've become) buy tabloid newspapers, watch (and believe real) "Mixed Martial Arts" clown shows nonsense, and think Democrat-Republican politics is real. If you think today's "Major Leagues' and today's "music" are real, and that we really elected president an incompetent ideologue like Barak Obama, why do you find it unusual that Hollywood would foist this kind of crap on the viewer?

Ha ha ha Yeah then in the sequel where they won the 2 World Series after the Greatest Comeback in the History of Sports down 0-3 to the Yankees,. They sure sucked then A$$hole

all the boxing scenes from ''rocky'' movies, take all 10 positions. duh! just watch them again, this time with your eyes open. then watch an actual boxing match. double duh.

Are people really saying that the Karate Kid scene could have happened? The unrealistic part of that scene is that Danny Russo sets himself up in a stance from which the ONLY thing he can do is kick forward from his back foot. And then his opponent walks right into it rather than simply move sideways and force Danny to hop around ridiculously in order to face the right direction.

what about lou gosset jr. boxing 10 opponents in one day in diggstown?

highly improbable but still the best boxing movie………..never con a con

Does the A- hole writing this realize that these are movies, make to entertain. I hope he never finfs out that donald is not a real duck……………….

That was why I included it. It's not the kick, specifically, but the combination of the kick and the circumstances are what made it ridiculous. Thanks for visiting and commenting.

Lyoto's kick is sort of similar… but he wasn't set up standing in the middle of the ring with Randy charging into him… those Karate Kid fight scenes are too much!!

Enjoyed the list and comments with other funny sports movies moments/scenes/whatever

4A12: Relax, douchebag!

Thanks for the link to the Youtube footage of The Natural. It is great to see that again and be reminded of the story of redemption in that special movie. I thought the movie was not as dark at the Malamud novel–which was just fine with me. You are probably right about it being unrealistic, although in picking The Natural, didn’t you miss another unrealistic scene–the creation of Wonder Boy? And while I am all about realism in paintings, I don’t remember ever going to the movies seeking realism. I find more entertainment from movies like The Natural or Field of Dreams.

I take exception to Tin Cup being on the list. Have you ever been in one of those golf events where they have a closest to the cup or hole-in-one contest? Some let you buy extra chances because the more swings you get the more you get a read on the distance, roll, wind, etc. The more reps the closer you usually get. Costner took like 10 shots or something at clearing the water, so I could see that happening. Besides, he's got a pretty sweet swing for an actor, so that adds to the realism.

Youngblood. Worst hockey move EVER….if you can even call it a hockey movie. It was really more about the fight than the hockey….but either way…both the hockey AND the fighting were ridiculous, so maybe this wins on two counts? Anybody who's ever played hockey before can not watch this movie without rolling their eyes and laughing out loud. The only redeeming thing in this entire move is Cynthia Gibb's rear-end…which was worth the ticket price alone.

i disagree…gangs flash their colors all the time in front of each other.

How about the movie where the 2nd year rookie QB "leads" his team to the playoffs (on the foot of the kicker), makes a 4 yard pass which the receiver runs for a beautiful TD after breaking 3 or 4 tackles and the he's hailed as the saviour of football? Anyone see that one?

The crane kick pose was ridiculous and I never even saw or heard of it until the movie. (I have a black belt in Okinawan Karate, earned in the late 70's). But the truth is, the jumping front kick works, it's just that most MMA guys are so slow with their feet that they telegraph their kicks and their kicks are just feints anyway. But this year there have been two spetacular knock outs by fighters who have actually practiced their front kicks. Victor Belfort went down from a kick just like the Karate kid's, just without the theatrics.

I believe Chazz Michael Michaels & Jimmy MacElroy could land that one, I mean, they did nail the "Iron Lotus"

Sorry, but the new Karate Kid's ending was far more realistic than the Ralph Machio one. First, Dre Parker's leg was not "broken", which was the problem for his opponent. econdly, the writers did a good job of preempting your objection to Dre's lack of athletic ability. This kid was admittedly too fast for his opponents to catch him during the chase scene, and only got stopped because he went into the wrong back yard. Secondly, he showed that he was an exceptional athlete (as he had maintained at the outset of his training) by enduring the grueling workouts that Mr. Han had put him through. ou obviously know little about eastern methods of martial arts training. It IS possible for someone to gain an incredible amount of knowledge and ability in a very short period of time.

Once again the ignorance of the right wingers appears. This was one man's opinions about sports movies and you turn it into some right wing political agenda. Moronic!

I DON"T WANT YOUR LIFE

A 3wood backing up off a green from 235 is whats crazy

ACtually a couple of UFC fighters have been utilizing the "crane" style front kick, champ Anderson Silva, and former champ Lyoto Machida both knocked people out with that kick. Now it wasn't set up the same of course but the execution effect was the same.

Why in the Karate Kid clip with Jaden Smith, music from Karate Kid 3 is playing?

The one where they lined up in an illegal formation that wasn't called? Where they had only 6 men on the line of scrimmage?

First off, Keith MULLET? Really> We are supposed to take YOU serious???

And if you think the Crane Kick in Karate Kid was not realistic then you never watch MMA or UFC!

Just a few months ago in a PPV event, A fighter was kicked right in the face with a FRONT KICK and knocked out! So it happens and it is realistic.

You are an idiot!

The guy was crippled when he kicked the other guy thoguh

The gladiator bitch slap that sends Cuba flying over the top rope is easily the funniest and should rank as number 1.

I watch sports movies strictly for the entertainment, but I do laugh or get annoyed when something doesn't come off too kosher. In the movie "Bang the Drum Slowly" with Michael Moriarty and Robert DeNiro they kept showing the same game setting over and over throughout the whole movie! Jeez! Were the producers on that cheap of a budget that they couldn't do more and different game footage? And those of us that are Cleve Indians fans know that the "home" games in Major League were not filmed at the old Municipal Stadium (can you say "County Stadium in Milwaukee"?). But the funniest to me was the beginning of Karate Kid Two and they decide to show the ending of the first movie with the winning kick and at the start of the second movie the coach and the kid walk out of the gym, and the kid is clearly two feet taller! Instant puberty (wax on… wax off…)

Hasn't it always been that way? I remember an old Elvis movie where he was a race car driver. It might have been in Viva Las Vegas but he was 3 or 4 laps down in the 'big' race, then he drove past all other race cars, lapping them 3 or 4 times to win by a nose! Ridiculous!!! I don't care how good a race driver you are, your car can't be that much faster than all the others!

I always thought the skinny, unmuscular Matthew Modine beating that hulk in Vision Quest was a little ridiculous, too. And how did George Plimpton run that TD through an NFL defense, diving and grabbing at air against a sports writer? Oh, yeah. It was the Detroit Lions!

If you didn't post this, I would have. Watching a puny Rob Lowe stand toe-to-toe with what is probably an average size hockey goon (but who dwarfs Lowe in the movie) and then seeing Lowe somehow be able to pin the guy's arms and LIFT HIM COMPLETELY OFF THE ICE with repeated punches to the stomach is the stuff of movie producer acid trips, not reality.

You are forgetting "The Annexation of Puerto Rico" from "Little Giants". The greatest play ever conceived by John Madden and an 8-year-old!

Machida beat Randy Couture with a nearly identical kick, just without the dramatic stance. And he wasn't crippled aferward.

The karate Kid – The Crane Move – you just don't get it. That's the whole point of the movie in one scene. He won with the Crane Kick because he had learned discipline and honor and found a new way to overcome adversities while the other kid was being taught only how to be a bully and he had no idea what ancient customs and cultures can produce in life. That other kid had no idea what was happening…all he new was how to rush in….and he did exactly what he was taught to do…rush in without thinking

you forget comedies do not count

The Program was indeed an awesome movie, and it helps to know what it was about – which Mullet evidently does not. I was working full time in my field of addiction rehab when I tried out as an extra for the movie just for kicks and, to my amusement, got hired. I had the opportunity to chat with one of the principal actors about the movie's theme of addiction rehab, and learned that everyone involved with that movie was savvy to the issues of addiction & recovery – which really shows in the finished movie. Unfortunately the audience was not to savvy, and people like to strut by knocking the movie when all it proves is their ignorance. Great idea for an article, but Mullet's' comments about The Program are a bad QB call on 3rd down – Mullet is three and out.

How the hell did Sudden Death not get mentioned????!!!! The JCD scenes where he is the goalie is a crime against humanity!

Um, you maybe missed than the Carolina Panthers ran that play – and scored on it – in an NFL game this year. Dope.

Leslie Neilson in The Naked Gun as the umpire…. too funny

I refer you to the latest Tae Kwon feats on dance steps. BACKYARD, youi better take a look again there is definitely egg on your face,and how do you like your crow cooked?

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=korean+taekwo…

derpderp is the greatest! Mr. internet toughguy!! I would say more but I am scared of his hide behind the internet tough guy lifestyle.

the kick in the ufc fight was not a crane kick it was a front kick and the fighter did not just throw the kick he set it up first

diggstown

THE KARATE KID SEEMS IMPROBABLE BECAUSE ITS RALPH MACCHIO DOING IT. A TRUE MARTIAL ARTS MASTER COULD DO SO EASILY THOUGH, I DOUBT ONE WOULD. AS FOR ALL THE OTHERS…GIVE ME A BREAK! THESE ARE MOVIES! THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO STRETCH REALITY! YOU'RE BEING WAY TO PICKY ABOUT THIS! BACK TO THE KARATE KID. THE UNBELIEVEABLE PART ISN'T THE CRANE KICK, ITS THAT DUMB KID STANDING THERE AND LETTING DANIEL KICK HIM! DUH! ANYONE COULD SEE THAT COMING!

How can you say the finale of "The Natural" was unrealistic? Did you not see Kirk Gibson in 88' World Series? Real life can be even more improbable than a movie yet it sometimes happens. The Maz, Fisk, even Puckett had greater moments then Roy Hobbs.

The Crane kick was actually used at UFC 129 when Lyoto Machida knocked out randy Couture with it. See it here http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjmysp_machida-v…

Don't ever disrespect The Natural like that again.