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In this episode, I discuss 5 sports movies with conservative messages. I discuss why I think most sports movies have a conservative message and why I love watching team sports and the messages they send about fair play and playing by the rules.
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Hello, Classic Crew, and welcome to today's video where we're going to be talking about
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So today I wanted to talk about five sports movies that have conservative messages,
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but before I even started talking about those five specifically, I wanted to talk about
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why it seems like most sports movies are conservative. Because in my experience,
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most sports movies have a conservative message. Now, I absolutely love sports movies. I think
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they're usually really good family films. Not always, but very often. And they have such a good
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message that I think is very conservative, which is that it doesn't matter who wins or loses. It
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matters that there is fair play. That is a super conservative concept. The idea that not everyone
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is going to come out on top, but everybody is given an equal opportunity to succeed. And that
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we have to put in all of the hard work and effort to get to the top. It doesn't necessarily mean that
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we'll get there, but it does mean that we have a better chance and a better opportunity. And I think
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that it's a really wonderful thing about sports movies is that you can watch a great sports movie
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and the team that you're rooting for will still lose, but they put in the effort and they won just
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by coming and showing up and playing by the rules. And playing fairly is what gives these games
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meaning, right? If you're watching a basketball game and suddenly one player decides that it's okay
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for them to start traveling and no ref calls them out for it, well then, yeah, that team might win,
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but they didn't win under the rules. And playing fairly and trying your hardest, those are the things
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that make these films great, and that's a very conservative message. I also think that there's usually
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a very strong undertone about family. Again, not always, but it is very common in these movies.
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You also have the idea of brotherhood, the idea of the best part of masculinity, which is fighting
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with honor. Those are wonderful conservative messages, and I love seeing team sports. I get really
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emotional watching team sports and watching the team come together. I know I'm not a man,
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but I just absolutely love and admire that about men playing team sports. And so today,
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I'm really excited to share with you five sports movies with conservative messages. Now, I do want
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to say that the messages that I'm talking about, the conservative messages that I'm talking about,
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that's not to say that people who are liberal can't have these values, that they don't think you
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should work hard, none of that. But these are things that are built into the conservative kind of
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viewpoint. And so when I say that, that's what I mean. So let's get into it. So let's start off with
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one of my absolute favorite movies, and that is 61. It was directed by Billy Crystal, and it was a work
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of love for him because he loves baseball, he loves the Yankees, and this was a story he really wanted to
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tell. It was actually directed and made for HBO, but you can get it on Amazon Prime. Such a great movie.
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It tells the story of Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris as they are racing to beat Babe Ruth's home run
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record in one season. So Babe Ruth hit a record of 60 home runs in one season, and these two guys are
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now trying to surpass that. The two guys are actually friends, and it is a wonderful, wonderful movie,
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and it tells the story of these two men who are so entirely different. One who is a really wonderful
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family man who just is crumbling under the pressure of people criticizing him, of the newspapers,
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of all of the kind of attention that he's getting because that's just not who he is as a person.
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That's Roger Maris. And then you have Mickey Mantle, who's the playboy, who was not living a very
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conservative lifestyle, and it ended up making him very ill before he was able to actually complete
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the race. And I'm not spoiling anything because, you know, this is historical, but Roger Maris does end up
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passing Babe Ruth's record. He did it in eight more games, so initially the commissioner had made that a
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different record and put like an asterisk next to his 61 home runs. But there are a few things throughout
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the film that I think are very conservative. One is that in the movie, Roger Maris really struggles
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with being away from his family. He loves his family, he wants to be with them, but he also has this
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career that takes him away from them. And I just love how much of a family man he is, how much he loves
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his wife, how much support he gets from her. It's a really beautiful display of a marriage on screen,
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and I think that Billy Crystal really directed that very well. And throughout the film, I think
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one of the things that makes it so special is that Roger Maris really didn't want to make this whole
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thing about him surpassing the runs. He wanted to make it about the team and the Yankees making it
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to the World Series. And so when he does end up realizing, okay, I'm this close and I have to just
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push for it, that wasn't his initial goal. It wasn't that that was what he was aiming for. He was more
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worried about the team. And that is a really lovely concept and something that's a conservative idea,
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which is that he's thinking about the community before his individual needs, right? If he just
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wanted to focus on getting home runs, then he could ignore what was good for the team and just
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keep hitting home runs and even if it wasn't best for what the team needed. And in the movie, there are
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times that he chooses not to hit the home run and instead do what's better for the team. And I love
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that idea so much it's less about the individual and more about his team and the community of that
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team. But when he does win, he wins by following the rules. He doesn't have to cheat in order to
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surpass Babe Ruth's record. He just does it. And that is a super inspiring thing. Quick thing I
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wanted to mention, which I actually think is funny, is that in the film, this was before it had come out,
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that Maguire had used steroids to beat Babe Ruth's record and Roger Maris's record. And because of
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that, Maguire's record doesn't really count because he did cheat and he didn't do it fairly. And that
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makes him less of a hero than Roger Maris. Next up, let's talk about a classic movie and that is Rocky.
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I love Rocky. Who doesn't love Rocky? It's amazing. And Sylvester Stallone, the fact that he wrote it,
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acted in it. Incredible story. I mean, I think he wrote the whole script in one night. You should
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look this up because it's a really fascinating story. And honestly, the story of how the film
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got made is an amazing conservative message in and of itself. He just worked hard and it was just that
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good that it got produced and became this huge, huge hit. But in any case, the story of Rocky I
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absolutely love. I think we all do. It's the underdog story and he still loses. And I love that. I love
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that at the end of Rocky. He doesn't come out on the other side as a winner just because he worked
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hard. He played fairly. He played as best as he could. And he still didn't win. And there's something
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about that that's so inspiring. It's not just you win because we want you to. You win because you did
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work hard. It's you played fairly and this was the outcome. And that is an incredibly conservative
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message is that we work our hardest, but it doesn't mean that we're going to get rewarded. It's not
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about who wins or loses sometimes. It's just about putting in the best effort. And you don't always get
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to win just because you did that. And I love this movie. I really do. It's so good. And the rest of
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them are a little hokey, but the first one was very special. So I wanted to include that on the list
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because, hey, if that's not a conservative message that you can start from the bottom and work your
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way up and still hold your own with the guy who's at the top of his field just because you worked that
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hard, you trained that hard, that's a really cool and conservative message. Number three is one of my
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absolute favorites, and that is Miracle. Miracle is probably the most conservative movie on this list
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for me just because it's so patriotic. Any movie that is talking about the Olympics where they're
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representing the United States of America with a patriotism and a love for their country, that is
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always going to be a really conservative movie. And the thing I love about Miracle, there's a really
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special scene where all of these players, all these hockey players, are coming together from different
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parts of the country and they have to come together to make up the United States of America's
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hockey team. And they are all really not viewing each other as the American team. They're viewing
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one another as people from different places, and so they're much more kind of antagonistic towards
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each other. And they're not viewing each other as a team until the moment where they all realize,
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no, we're not fighting for our state or for our school. We're fighting for America. We are all Americans.
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That is a really inspiring moment in that movie, and I love it. I love how much there is a love for
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America in that film. How they all put in so much effort, so much work. They're not going to cheat. Even
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if another team cheats, they're not going to because they're going to play fairly. And with that, they win.
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Amazing. It's a miracle, as they say in that movie. And it is one of my absolute favorites. Totally
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family-friendly. You can show it to your kids, and it is one of those movies that is inspiring on so
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many levels and has a conservative message. Next up, let's talk about Cinderella Man. So that's another
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boxing movie, and it takes place in the 1930s. Now, it isn't entirely historically accurate. The villain
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in the movie is Max Baer, and Max Baer was not a bad man at all. And in the movie, they portray him
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that way for the drama of the story. But if we're taking that out of play and we're just kind of
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viewing the movie as the movie, it's such a wonderful portrayal of a man who wants to fight and wants to
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support his family and wants to play fairly and views it as a point of pride that he'll accept help
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when he needs it, but then he'll repay it when the time comes. So what I'm talking about is in the film,
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the main character actually wins a certain amount of money from a fight, and he has been accepting
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unemployment while he needed it because it's during the Great Depression, and he pays it off.
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He returns it to the government that helped him in his time of need. He says, okay, I needed that
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at the time. Now I don't, and I'm going to repay it. And I love that as a concept that he's not too proud
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to get help in the first place, but then when he can repay it, he does, and he doesn't see it as a gift,
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and something that he never has to return. And that's what actually gives him the name
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Cinderella Man is that people see what he did. And again, it's that wonderful thing of a man
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fighting honorably, being the best version of a man. Strong, going to do what he needs to do.
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He's going to fight, but he's going to fight for the right things and in the right way. And I love
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that about this movie. Another really great film with a conservative message.
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The last movie I want to talk about today is Rudy. I'm sure you've heard of Rudy. It is a
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favorite for so many people, and I think this is a wonderful movie as well. Rudy tells the story of
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a man who wants to play football and wants to go to Notre Dame, but suffers with dyslexia,
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and then eventually works hard enough to make it into Notre Dame after many, many years of trying and
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studying, makes it into Notre Dame, and attempts to make the team as a walk-on. But eventually,
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at the very end of the film, he's able to actually go on to play on the field, and he sacks the
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quarterback. And it is an incredibly moving story. It's the story of somebody who tries his best,
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and when he does, he's able to inspire people. Because he works so hard, and because of that,
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he's able to have this opportunity. And I think that's a really inspiring story, is that you have
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to work your hardest, you have to give it your all, to even get the chance to make it onto the
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field once. And I love that as a message. I think it's a conservative message that you have to put
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in the effort, and you can't just wait for things to come around. And that is a really moving story.
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It's something that I know a lot of you love, and I agree with you. It's a really incredible,
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incredible movie. So let me know in the comments which of these movies is your favorite. Do you have
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any other sports movies that you love because they have a conservative message? I'd love to hear your
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guys' thoughts. Sports movies are some of my favorites. Thank you guys so much for watching
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