'Titans' named favorite football flick

Published: Jan. 30, 2009 at 11:29 AM
2007 National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Awards gala in New York

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Participants in a Moviefone.com poll voted Denzel Washington's 2000 film "Remember the Titans" as the best American football flick of all time.

Seventeen percent of the 1,057,882 online ballots cast were for "Titans."

"Rudy" and "Brian's Song" each earned 14 percent of the vote, while the 1974 version of "The Longest Yard" caught 11 percent, "We Are Marshall" 7 percent, "Invincible" 6 percent, and "Friday Night Lights," "Any Given Sunday" and "North Dallas Forty," each earned 5 percent.

The football-themed movies that earned 4 percent or less of the vote in descending order are "Jerry Maguire," "Knute Rockne All American," "Heaven Can Wait," "The Express," "The Program," "All the Right Moves" and "Everybody's All American," Moviefone.com said.

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