American Football Films (Film Guide): Jerry Maguire, Knute Rockne, All American, Heaven Can Wait, List of Films Based on Sports Books

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 69. Chapters: Jerry Maguire, Knute Rockne, All American, Heaven Can Wait, List of films based on sports books, The Express, MASH, Semi-Tough, The Blind Side, Any Given Sunday, The Longest Yard, The Replacements, Horse Feathers, Leatherheads, We Are Marshall, Playmakers, Rudy, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, Friday Night Lights, Lucas, Two-Minute Warning, Necessary Roughness, The Waterboy, The Game Plan, Facing the Giants, Little Giants, Varsity Blues, The Comebacks, The Program, North Dallas Forty, The Freshman, A Saintly Switch, Gridiron Gang, Invincible, The Longshots, Big Fan, Everybody's All-American, Brian's Song, The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon, The Galloping Ghost, Air Bud: Golden Receiver, Marshall University: Ashes to Glory, Father was a Fullback, Two for the Money, Radio, Black Sunday, The Slaughter Rule, Pigskin Parade, Wildcats, Gus, Trouble Along the Way, Maker of Men, Brown of Harvard, The Drop Kick, The Forward Pass, Freddy the Freshman, The Bear, Quarterback Princess, Salute, Crazylegs, Code Breakers, Damn Good Dog, Monday Night Mayhem, Go Tigers!, Pigskin Champions. Excerpt: On occasion, sports books have been used as source material for film adaptations. Popular sports in the United States such as baseball and American football have been adapted to film. Books about sports such as boxing, bullfighting, cockfighting, football, hockey, hunting have also been adapted. (Popular and legal in Mexico) Professional, college, high school (Terrorism became a regular part of news reports in the early 1970s, and this theme was extended to popular fiction.) Professional and university (Lacrosse is the official national (summer) sport of Canada) (Yachting) (Court tennis) Pages with the same format The Express (also known as The Express: The Ernie Davis Story) is a...