As a matter of fact, basing a movie on the last-second victory ... part of Hollywood lore. After WWII, football took a respite during the '50s and '60s. Still, the hero had a role, but as an ...

Football movies don’t get much more “feel good ... roommates in the entire NFL (don’t forget, we’re talking the ‘60s here) only adds to the importance of this classic tearjerker.

Movies about football can be hard to rank, if only because it depends on which flavor of football film you want. After all, ...

Titans is definitely a football movie - dare I say, even a good football movie - but ... students outside a school building are extremely reminiscent of photos from the '60s of the civil rights ...

At their very best, however, football flicks transcend the sport and highlight the greatest features of the human condition: courage, perseverance, integrity, teamwork. Movies are as subjective as ...

The baseball-movie canon is ample and largely agreed-upon, but the best football movies have less consensus behind them. That’s not to say there aren’t some well-acknowledged sports-movie ...

A lot can change in 60 years. One thing that hasn’t is the magnitude of Alabama’s biggest sporting event of the year: the Iron Bowl. Exactly 60 years ago, the world was introduced to the ...

So once the Super Bowl is over, throw on these all-time great football movies and kick off an undefeated marathon.

On this Super Bowl weekend, we're asking the question, what makes a great football movie? And here to help answer that question are Brittany Luse, the host of fellow NPR show It's Been A Minute.

The football team at Maryland School for the Deaf is riding high in many ways. They’re on a hot streak with more wins on the horizon, but throughout it all, senior player Amaree McKenstry-Hall ...