1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Mount Rushmore of 70s Sports Movies: October 24th, 11:25pm

Episode Date: October 24, 2025

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Hey, thank you for hanging out with us for the hour. Adam character, boxed the black shirt, old school on a Friday. Again, we're going to be down at the rest of the loss. Greatly appreciate. Y'all hanging up with it.

Texture says, DPR, I find myself nodding when you compare these movies to modern day. I simultaneously, this wonder for our sentiments are colored by nostalgia for our formal reviews. Yeah. But I think these were great stories.

I mean, these were great stories. And some of the, here's the thing. There's some things about the movies that don't hold up over time because of technology, et cetera. But like the basketball in one-on-one is really good basketball. The drills, yeah, they're out there in Canvas tennis shoes because that's what they wore in the time, right? But I absolutely understood exactly what the message was in those movies.

Mark, love a DP way to go. Longest Yard was. good too. Yeah, but when we try to get to the, to the Mount Rushmore of them, you have to go through. Oh, Chubby Rhino. What a great pull. What a great pull. He says Mystery Alaska, which may have been the 80s. Bach, are you familiar with Mystery Alaska? I've heard of it. I've never seen it. Oh, so good. Russell Crow as a hockey player for a local Alaskan, like, semi-pro hockey. franchise. And some of the players get recruited, right?

It's kind of clubball, but it's an opportunity there. And then they get an opportunity to play a big time in a big time matchup. And they bring the full, like, you know, the Canada Sports Network, right? It's going to come and cover this thing. Fantastic. This is a, oh, my good, this is so good. best of times in the 70s with Robin Williams and Kurt Russell. Kurt Russell plays a star high school quarterback.

Robin Williams was his receiver, a high school receiver buddy, and their biggest game, their rivalry game, they had a chance to win the game. Kurt Russell throws the ball to Robin Williams, he drops it. And it haunts him.

It haunts him for 20 years until they decide. Robin Williams tried to convince him to bring the guys back together and replay the game. And it was so funny. I mean, Rob Moyes was so good in this movie, but it was the perfect description of Thanksgiving and then they're trying to get back together with their wives,

but the wives that said, you cannot watch football during Thanksgiving dinner. So they hide a TV, except for they can't stop watching, and it causes all the drama. A fantastic villain in the movie was a guy from opposing high school named Dr. Death. Dr. Death.

The Express 90s, yeah, Mystery Alaska is. is the 90s, but wonderful. Brian's song is absolutely in the Mount Rushmore of 70s sportsmen. 100%. 100%. Yeah, Slapshot, Aaron and Lincoln. Are you saying snapshot or slap shot?

I think it's slap shot. I think that's the one they were talking about. Mark and Hillard. Yeah, Mark and Holland. Yeah, it... If you're trying to get to the best, you have to go through the others. And the Kansas City bomber, to me, just landed, rollerball, iconic, because we hadn't seen anything like it. I think rocky, longest yard.

Now, you're going to, you're going to disrespect the bad news bears, but because that's almost a kids movie from that era. But everybody saw it. North Dallas 40 Heaven Can Wait got Oscar pub That's how good that movie was So I'm not sure There were several racing movies Lamont's was fantastic

Paradise Alley was Stallone before where he plays a boxer slash turn wrestler And it goes behind the scenes there That's really good there are some good ones. There's some ones that the champ, the champ is so good.

The end punched, it gut punched me. It gut punched me. I have to say, like, it just, it did. In the list of this is the greatest, which is kind of a documentary about Muhammad Ali, about Cassius Clay. And it goes through all of the, you know, the thrill in Manila, Zaire,

it goes through all of that. And it gathered a lot of the clips of the things that were going on. It captured him when he was banned from the sport, a meeting with him and Joe Frazier, where Joe Frazier had to loan him money just to survive. Right? And then them building up to this thing and then the friction between those two. Yeah.

that's really good. Robbie Vincent had a couple, the one-on-one, but the ice castles, where you had a former hockey player, you know, the thug hockey player at that. But as a part of his rebuilding and rebranding, they paired him to work with this skater, this figure skater.

And pretty good. Bingo Long and the Traveling All-Stars. Now, let me tell you, to talk about the needs, Negro leagues in the way that they did was was vital, but imagine Billy D. Williams, James old Jones, Richard Pryor all in the same movie talking about a traveling baseball team and all the things that they went through and all the shenanigans that went on over the course of this thing. And you can't you can't underscore how fun, like it was fun, but it was also informative,

fully informative. But I would say, Brian's song Rocky longest yard and then I would put North Dallas 40 in just from the 70s. You could put Rocky 2 in it but

now there was a movie that was made I'm not sure it was in the 70s the movie was called the Stratton story and it was a baseball movie. Yeah, this is

1949, 1950. And the story of it is a pitcher, and I'm offering this because I just really want, Jimmy Stewart plays the lead. And it's the story of Monty Stratt, who was a major league pitcher for the White Sox, 1934 to 1938. It was the first of three movies where Jimmy Stewart and June Allison played together.

Won the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture, 1949. Right? I mean, pretty good stuff when a sports movie reaches. Like Rocky, there's a few of those. Bach pull up the sports movies that won Academy Award. And that'll help me wrap it in the final segment. But Farm Boy does well. his wife was was exceptional in helping him work on his craft you know she you know when your wife

takes you takes you out back on the farm and catches for you um they get to try out with the white socks they take the california they give him a contract they fall in love there um as his career uh evolves i improve so much he's he's an all star in the american league and this is all true story uh all star in the american league and the all season 1938, he actually accidentally shoots himself in the right leg hunting in Texas. When his leg must be amputated, appears his pitching career is over. Stratton learns to walk with his baby because he had a baby boy. And he said, I do not want to be in a wheelchair around my baby boy as he grows up.

He works hard. And then one day with this new leg, wooden leg. And this is not 2025 replacement leg. We're talking 1930, Bach. We were kind of working from a limited budget, you know what I mean? But he, he begins pitching again. And he makes a successful minor league comeback. And to tell you, this is how, this is how, this is how, this is how, what struck me about it.

Because the guy could throw. And he figured out that he could get more propelled. more propulsion, propulsion with the wooden leg. Well, Bach, at some point, if somebody's getting you out and they have one leg, you're going to figure out something. Bach, what do you think that the opponents did? I don't know. They started bunting.

Ah, got him. They started bunting against him to make him field off the bad way. Brough. Is that what ended him? No, he just, you know, he just reached a point where, you know, he had recovered. They made a point to tell that, you know, there are some things, right? About winning when it won, but in his final, he entered a game in the sixth inning against the Detroit lines, Detroit Tigers, I'm sorry, Tigers had a 10-0 lead at the point, two runners on base when Stratton entered the game,

two outs in the sixth inning. He retired to the Tigers that inning without any further run scored. During the game's final three innings, he allowed two more runs, both earned on four hits as the Tigers, 112, nothing. It was Stratton's only major league appearance

of the 34th season. And then they talked about it. They filmed some of the movie at Kamiski Park, Gilmore Phil of the Hollywood All-Stars the Pacific Coast League and Wrigley Field. And they use several actual major league players of the time

to be a part of it. So again, they ran a special broadcast, one hour adoption of it. Pretty good. Pretty good stuff. So what's it say about how many movies, sports movies,

won Academy War for Best Film? Says for Best Picture, Rocky, Tarriots of Fire, and Million Dollar Baby. But others have won, like, you know, Best Supporting Actor. Right, yeah.

Blinds, side, Raging Bull, King Richard, the hustler, and Jerry McGuire. Yeah, Raging Bull. Like, if you're just going to do sports movies, Mount Rushmore, raging Bull, but then you do have to include

the one that won the award, right? Raging Bull, Rocky. Millionaire Baby, I mean, it's the boxing movie, the women's boxing movie. Who was it? That wasn't Jennifer Gardner. who was Hillary Swing.

Hillary Swing. Yeah. I would, okay, text line. We, Bach, we have something to give away. Yeah. Are there rules for how we give it away? Not necessarily. There's a question here, but we can do it differently.

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Vision Quest was 80. And wrestling movies, they're so good. Matthew Modine, Madonna. Who's the young lady with the amazing voice that plays the love interest in that movie? Linda, who is it by? Who is that? I don't look it up here.

Yeah. Linda Fiorantino Yeah Linda Oh bro Again there's certain points Like he's

The wrestlers going through his fears And otherwise There's there are three moments In this thing That are iconic That's how good the movie is One He's he's working at a hotel

And in the in room service And he's hanging out with one of his mentors Is this cook And the cook You know they're grinding They're struggling, but the cook finds out that he's on this vision quest to be the best wrestler in the state. Wrestling are a guy named shoot. And shoot is a monster.

Absolute beast. They set up the meat. He drops the weight. He makes the weight. He gets on the windstreek, and he's going to take on shoot. The chef takes the night off from work. And he goes, bro, you need the money. Like they said you're not working tonight.

what's going on? He goes, you know what's happening tonight? You're wrestling shoot. This is a big deal. And it's one of the famous, he goes, it was, he goes, it's only, you know, six minutes. And the guy goes, it's what happens in that six minutes. That's why. And he tells the story of watching Pele. And he goes, that somebody from the same human breed that I, the same breed that I come from, can elevate a whole stadium filled with people. but then he the iconic warm up of him to lunatic fringe playing in an off auxiliary gym he kicks

but as he's about to walk out linda fjornino who he's he's had the off on thing with and she sneaks into the locker room and she goes hey loud you know they're explaining why it can't work between them and but as she leaves and she goes hey loud kick his And at that moment, you're going, yep, we all need a Linda for you and Tina. We all, we all do. We'll close out and get ready for Adam Carrier coming up.