Underdog sport stories

[Pietro Paolo Virdis]

The coach comes to a school where he doesn't want to be or is not wanted

One of the kids, usually the best, doesn't want to be on the team

That kid is troubled becuse of some domestic shit. A bitter father or mother pulls him off the team in the beginning or midway through the story

The coach gets a good money offer from another school. The kids find out and get pissed off at him

The coach stays at the end

Something I forgot?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Underdog sport stories

The underdog always wins. Oh, except in Rocky. The first one, the one that won the Oscar (it really did, you know). He loses in that one.

[Southport Zeb]

Underdog sport stories

In an early match they'll be thrashed leading to a fight in the dressing room. Over the next few weeks they'll work things out and do extra practices. This will almost certainly be shown as part of some musical montage.

[ursus arctos]

Underdog sport stories

No one thinks the dog can play hoops



or gridiron



or baseball



but they come around in the second reel

[Hugh Fatbastard]

Underdog sport stories

Pietro Paolo Virdis wrote: The coach comes to a school where he doesn't want to be or is not wanted

One of the kids, usually the best, doesn't want to be on the team... yadda yadda yadda

Something I forgot?

the coach (a current or former pro player/coach) becomes romantically involved with troubled, star player's mother by the end of the film.