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  • Welcome to watch Mojo.

  • And today we're counting town our picks for the top 10 sports movies where the team loses, Feel the river, feel the rise.

  • It's about that time.

  • There's not about that scoreboard out there.

  • It's not about winning.

  • For this list will be looking at the endings of sports movies, wherein the protagonists do not ultimately emerged 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?

  • Lament in the comments.

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  • A league of their own.

  • Are you crying?

  • Are you crying?

  • Let's go crying.

  • There's no crying in baseball as well.

  • See, with many entries on this list, the final game of a league of their own is about as close as it could be.

  • This fictionalized retelling of the inaugural season of the all American girls.

  • Professional Baseball League follows The Rockford Peaches, led by Gina Davis, is superstar catcher Dottie Henson as they push the racing bells to a decisive Game seven.

  • In it, Daddy gets the go ahead.

  • R B I 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 fastball.

  • Can't hit him.

  • Can't lay off Theo.

  • Throw.

  • Beats her to the plate, but the collision knocks the ball out of Daddy's glove, sealing the championship for the bells.

  • Oh, number nine Mystery Alaska.

  • Something else will 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.

  • Play hockey, and I fornicate because is 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.

  • Yeah, yeah, 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 Whippet number to wear number two.

  • 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 with it, though, Bliss would rather competed the roller derby championship pressure from Bliss is domineering.

  • Mother forces the teenager to do the other.

  • Compassion wins the day.

  • However, as Bliss is, Father convinces his wife that their child's happiness is the most important thing.

  • I can't take losing the money.

  • I cannot take losing the chance for you 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 were again inspired by their positive postgame attitude.

  • You wait.

  • Number seven Friday Night Lights to me being perfect.

  • There's 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 Beer is quite a good deal from the rial 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.

  • Uninspiring 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.

  • Now, come on.

  • When the dust settles, it's revealed they came just inches short, absolutely devastating.

  • Number six kingpin.

  • We move over to single sports now with this comedy Cold Classic years after losing his right hand bowling Phanom Roy Munson looks to reclaim his shot at glory by coaching Amish prospect Ishmael to a $1 million jackpot at a tournament in Reno.

  • Okay, you want a bowl for some big money?

  • Hey, but 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 Really monthly.

  • Oh, with Ishmael in his corner, it's instead Roy, who enters the tournament using his rubber prosthetic hands to get the job done.

  • We don't quite know how that works, but Roy manages to bull his way into the final against the man responsible for his injury.

  • Roy has the lead in the final frame, but McCracken Bulls three strikes in a row, toe win by a single pin.

  • Okay, Number five, bring it on.

  • Even in competition, there are more important things than winning, such as the respect for one's self and one's opponent in Bring It on the Rancho Carne.

  • A Toros Cheer squad must rediscover that respect upon learning their previous routines were lifted from those of the East Compton Clovers Squad Game is that we're down here, so get that out of here trying to set up a bit.

  • But you look like shit were the ones who are down with it.

  • Newly appointed captain Torrance Shipman looks to rectify her predecessors cheating ways.

  • But there are some serious speed bumps along the way.

  • You want to make it right thing when you go to nationals, bring it.

  • Don't slack off because you feel sorry for us that way when we beat you.

  • Well, no, it's because we're better at nationals.

  • The new look Toro's ultimately see their titles to the Clovers.

  • However, now that the Toros have an identity of their own, the two squads were 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?

  • Yeah.

  • Number four Tin Cup.

  • You know the ball.

  • Take a drop, Roy.

  • Roy, Just give me another ball.

  • Winning a title certainly put 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 U.

  • S.

  • Open in 1996 is 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 forgoes his lead and goes forward again on Lee for it to land squarely in the water once more.

  • Rather than press on and accept the tie, Roi goes forward 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 loves what they're going to remember your 12, My God number three cool runnings.

  • Feel the rhythm, feel the right, get on up.

  • It's about that time.

  • Cool Runnings 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 on 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 looked poised to finish in record time, but tragedy strikes when their sled crashes unscathed than undeterred.

  • The bobsledders carry their sled across the finish line on foot, their determination more than earning a slow clap.

  • Number two.

  • The Bad News Bears.

  • When it comes to sports movies, there's no zeroes to heroes 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 four bit way.

  • Forfeit the game you forfeit.

  • That's it.

  • That's a game.

  • Yet somehow with a roster of misfits in 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, Boilermaker, you're not my father, and I ain't interested in playing baseball for you anymore.

  • So why do 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 isn't 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 way.

  • Unveil our topic.

  • Here are a few honorable mentions.

  • North Dallas 40.

  • Dallas fumbles.

  • What would have been a game tying p A T snap.

  • The ball gets away from hard, but it's on the ground.

  • Chicago recovers.

  • The game is over.

  • Chicago marauders have held off North Dallas.

  • Rally toe win 14 to 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?

  • Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

  • Ready?

  • Yeah.

  • Thinking about mhm, Moneyball.

  • The A's won 20 in a row but still lost three out of five in the playoffs with the Minnesota Twins.

  • Exposed is the fact that the Oakland A's or fundamentally, not a sound baseball team.

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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 protagonist lose at the end of one.

  • The ultimate underdog.

  • Rocky Balboa on 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 Seymour and his tenacity ensures he Onley loses, decreed via a split decision, though he really couldn't care less.

  • What's your?

  • It's such a memorable outcome that the franchise replicated it in later installments.

  • Rocky Balboa and Creed.

  • Actually, opportunity.

  • Good name E O.

  • Was the greatest thing that ever since.

  • Do you agree with our picks?

  • Let us know in the comments.

  • And, hey, if you're a fan of the song playing right now, be sure to check out the music video for it right here.

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