A kooky old man and a “boy” king. Merlin and Arthur…or Al Davis and Lane Kiffin? You be the judge.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 125: “Excalibur”
What’s the connection between legendary composer John Williams and an NFL quarterback whose alter-ego is a Civil War character? There’s only one way to find out!… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 124: “Jaws 2”
If Henry Fonda told you the Germans were going to invade Purdue University, would you believe him?… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 122: “Battle of the Bulge”
I know it’s the wrong movie, but stupid is as stupid does…… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 121: “Beavis and Butthead Do America”
Just in time for the Holidays, a tale of a commando raid in Africa which is as much of a Christmas movie as Die Hard or Stalag 17…which somehow ends up in the saga of Frank McCourt’s Los Angeles Dodgers.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 120: “The Wild Geese”
You’ll get a kick out of a football-playing mule leading to a tale of the revolution which ended up in the creation of a billion-viewer sporting event!… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 119: “Gus”
If you know the Monty Python “Summarize Proust” sketch, and you remember who won that contest, you know the two reasons for this analogy.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 118: “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”
Who was better at defusing bombs? Jack Palance in post-war Berlin or Bill O’Brien at post-Sandusky Penn State?… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 117: “Ten Seconds To Hell”
Glenn Ford’s “Ben Wade” is trying to stay out of prison. So, what does he have in common with a Cuban pitcher?… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 116: “3:10 to Yuma”
Yet another connection between Van Johnson and the National Football League.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 115: “Battleground”
You might be cool, but you’ll never be “Got an entire sport created because of your movie career” cool.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 114: “A Guy Named Joe”
Just in time for the Summer Games, a tale of the Olympics, screwing, and Olympic screwing.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 113: “Personal Best”
A tale of two separate 1970s summer events which forever link TV star Martin Milner and Olympic pole-vaulter Bob Seagren.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 112: “ADAM-12 – Camp”
The obscure dreams of legendary film maker Akira Kurosawa and a deranged sports blogger somehow involve an even more obscure Ron Gant reference.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 111: “Dreams”
From what unknown entity does MLB umpire Joe “Major Kong” West get take his marching orders?… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 110: “Dr. Strangelove”
The hysteria that gripped the West coast in 1941 happens nearly every year to football fans in places like Dallas and Minnesota.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 109: “1941”
Just imagine the owner of an NFL team as a drunken “Clark Griswold” in a tale with so many twists it somehow links Hollywood legend Don Ameche and Pro Wrestling Hall of Famer Fritz von Erich.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 108: “National Lampoon’s Vacation”
Dubsism is the only place which can show you the connection between Doris Day and the Soviet Union’s National Hockey Team. … Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 107: “The Man Who Knew Too Much”
Only Dubsism can show you the thread binding Victorian England to Sealy, Texas in the late 1970s.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 106: “Great Expectations”
Today’s analogy takes not one, but TWO Clint Eastwood flicks to bear it out.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 105: “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
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