Best Sports Movie that doesn't end with a big game/fight/match whatever

Probably not, unless drowning is a sport.

 

Ooh, that's COLD! Made me LOL too. Yet another sign I am going to hell.

 

Pride of the Yankees.

 

In the late-60s Emile Griffith and Nino Benvenuti had three blood-and-guts title fights in less than a year, all great scraps, all went the distance, Benvenuti won two, Griffith one. Griffith - who I got really drunk with one night in Buffalo when he was working a Top Rank card with Riddick Bowe - was the godfather of one of Benvenuti's sons.

 

Draft Day

 

Was there a Director's Cut I missed on that movie? I could have sworn it pretty much ended with Cantrell getting HBP, driving in the winning run in the league championship game.

 

Breaking Away (???)

 

Sudden Death.
Technically not a sports movie, but the hockey game is integral to the plot. It's also over, or forgotten about, or something, long before the final fight scene.
Speaking of which, how would a league handle that type of situation? Game 7 of the finals, in overtime, and a terrorist attack disrupts the game before its conclusion? Not only that, but it's discovered after the fact that one of the goalies was replaced by an impostor for a key stretch of the game?
Would they replay it from scratch? Start wherever the game was disrupted? Declare no champion out of respect for the wounded and dead?

 

Depends on the bookies and the spread.

 

Doesn't Stud marry Dixie at the end? Still, the game is close enough to the end that I don't think it qualifies. Also, count me among those who would love to find a copy of Long Gone.

Even if you want to say the end of the perfect game isn't really the end of For Love of the Game, no fucking way that qualifies as a great movie, not with all of the idiotic changes from the book.

I think Bull Durham is the winner in this one.

 

Yeah, I remember Stud and Dixie getting married along with the rookie second baseman getting hitched to the girl he knocked up, but I looked at that as an epilogue more than anything.

 

Has anyone mentioned A League of Their Own?
There's a big game at the end, but then there's also a good bit of wrap-up after that including the final scene at the Hall of Fame.