Top ten American football movies

He’s known for being smooth, suave and sophisticated, but Hollywood heart-throb George Clooney gets thoroughly muddy as American football player, Dodge Connolly in sports comedy, Leatherheads. As the captain of the Duluth Bulldogs, a professional team struggling for results during the 1920s, it’s up to Connolly to resuscitate his squad’s season. It’s a tale loosely based on real-life and as per many sports movies, boosts an underdog spirit, desire for greatness and pulse-racing action. But how does it compare to previous American football classics? That’s what we wanted to know here at Boxwish and we were determined to find out…