Top 10 Sports Movies Where the Team Loses

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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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