Top Football Movies to Watch With Watch Movies, Get Drunk

If you have got a cold drink in one hand, snacks in the other, and a TV screen ready to serve up some pigskin drama, then buddy you are already halfway into a great night. Whether you are a diehard fan or someone who only shows up for the nachos, football movies are a perfect match for Watch Movies, Get Drunk.

Below are our top picks for gridiron greatness on the silver screen. These are not just football movies they are boozy bonding experiences waiting to happen. We are talking about heart, hustle, hilarious overacting, and enough inspirational speeches to get your dog to run wind sprints in the backyard.

1. Varsity Blues (1999)

Genre: Teen Drama with a Side of Beer Foam

This one’s got everything Texas football, overbearing dads, high school egos, whipped cream bikinis, and more late 90s angst than a Limp Bizkit album. Varsity Blues is pure chaos wrapped in a sweaty football jersey.

Why it works? Because every single character looks like they have either just drank a beer or are about to. Coach Bud Kilmer is a villain for the ages, and if you do not quote “I do not want your life” halfway through, are you even watching it right?

Add in some of the best football scenes of its era, a rebellious quarterback, and the kind of teen drama that makes you question whether anyone in that town actually went to class. Varsity Blues takes every sports movie cliché, adds beer, and turns it into a cult classic.

Perfect for drinking with friends who remember VHS tapes and think every football coach should have a whiskey voice and visible rage issues.

2. The Replacements (2000)

Genre: Underdog Comedy with Cleat Marks

Keanu Reeves as a quarterback. Gene Hackman as a coach. A team of misfits and criminals turned pro ballers. The Replacements is the Mighty Ducks for adults with more beer, brawls, and one of the best jailhouse dance scenes in movie history.

This movie is dumb in all the right ways and delivers on everything you want in a feel good, beer soaked sports comedy. Plus, it has got a kicker who chain smokes. If that is not a drinking buddy, what is?

There is also a sumo wrestler playing offensive line, a deaf tight end, and Jon Favreau as a literal psychotic linebacker. It has every kind of ridiculous character you could want and enough laughs to keep you going through multiple rounds.

3. Any Given Sunday (1999)

Genre: Gritty Football Opera

Al Pacino’s motivational speech alone should be enough to get this movie on the list. Any Given Sunday is basically a football fever dream. It is overacted, over edited, and full of so many testosterone drenched monologues that your couch might grow chest hair.

There is also Cameron Diaz as a ruthless team owner and Jamie Foxx in full “I am about to blow up as a movie star” mode. This is not a beer and giggle movie it is more like drink three beers and yell at your TV like you are a coach who just spilled chili on the playbook.

The film digs deep into the politics and drama behind professional sports and mixes in gritty realism with some of the wildest editing choices ever put to screen. It is long, it is loud, and it will leave you emotionally exhausted and slightly tipsy.

4. Little Giants (1994)

Genre: Kids Movie for Drunk Adults

Is it a kids movie? Yes. Is it secretly one of the most rewatchable football movies ever made? Also yes. Little Giants has heart, slapstick humor, and enough nostalgia to make a grown adult weep into their solo cup.

You have got Rick Moranis as a lovable underdog coach, Ed O’Neill as his macho older brother, and a team full of weirdos and outcasts you will absolutely root for.

It is family friendly, sure but it is also a blast when you are three drinks deep and yelling “THE ANNEXATION OF PUERTO RICO” like it is a real NFL play.

Let us not forget the foam wrapped kids running into trash cans, the one who cannot stop sneezing, and Icebox the most badass young linebacker ever filmed. This movie is fun for everyone and it is the perfect way to relive your childhood while sipping something far more adult.

5. Draft Day (2014)

Genre: Spreadsheet Thriller for Football Nerds

Draft Day is what happens when someone tries to make a front office drama feel like a Fast and Furious movie. Kevin Costner plays a general manager with a cell phone addiction and enough unresolved trauma to draft himself.

There is barely any football, but there is so much wheeling and dealing it feels like Wall Street in shoulder pads. Also, it weirdly gets more fun the more you drink especially when the logic of the draft trades starts to unravel like a cold beer after overtime.

You might find yourself yelling at the screen when a trade goes through that makes zero sense but somehow gets applauded. By the end, you will be cheering for spreadsheets and fax machines. It is football, but make it corporate drama.

Conclusion: Gridiron and Good Times

These movies are not just about football they are about ridiculous sports movie tropes, big emotions, improbable wins, and perfect drinking game moments. Whether you are quoting Kilmer, weeping at a Pacino monologue, or laughing at a kid with a foam helmet, there is something here for everyone.

So pop open a cold one, hit play, and let Watch Movies, Get Drunk do the heavy lifting. Football never looked so fun.

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