Best sports movie

[Worf101]

...no, no, no...that one listed in your poll...that's not the movie I was referring to...a...my choice was a little-known, vastly underated production from the Edison Studios just prior to the advent of talkies...

It's a biopic recounting the life of 19th century Scotsman Angus K. Walker, heir to the oat and shortbread fortune and pioneer in the fledgling sport of yachting...When not piloting one in a series of intrepid craft, all named the Lorna Doone, to victory after stunning victory, he spent most of his adult life perfecting a viable, stranded-mariner-friendly variant of the army's hardtack or, as he named his product, the "Sea Biscuit".

The last scenes are probably some of the most thrilling in all of moviedom...special effects, at least for the time, were first rate...in them, we see his boat dashed upon hidden shoals just off the Shetlands...in a typhoon...in the notoriously shark-infested waters of the North Sea. Certain of his demise and losing all hope, he fortuitously finds himself bobbing among some bales of his rations which include his recently-perfected product. He manages to at once subsist and remain buoyant by means of his life-saving cargo until a passing prison ship rescues him...

His product is still available in most markets and shops under it's current name Walker's Highland Oat-Cakes...and even after all this time, they are still made with the same all-natural ingredients and attention to quality as the original product...with a taste and texture reminiscent of a personal flotation device.

Yeah, that's the ticket!

jimHJJ(...a pox upon me for being an unobservant dolt...)

Unnnh R.L. I love you man... but please, for the love of all that's holy, put the crack pipe DOWN!!! And another thing, stop drinkin' your lunch before noon.

Da "really worried about R.L." Worfster

[GMichael]

I voted for CaddyShack. Love funny stuff. But I would have voted for the Bad News Bears if I could have.

RL will be OK. He just marches to the beat of a different drum. Not a thing wrong with that.