While there have been numerous funny moments in sports movies, I would have to say the debut of the Hanson brothers in the classic Paul Newman hockey flick, Slapshot, is my all time favorite.
Out of all the outrageous fictitious characters on film, these guys stand out from the rest. For all you sports fans out there too young to have seen this movie, it is definitely worth the watch.
From the time we first see them as they are attacking a soda vending machine until the all-out brawl on the ice in the championship game, they are a non-stop riot. Everything about the Hanson brothers is enough to cause one to rush to the store for a case of adult sized diapers.
I’m talking lose control of your bodily functions funny.
Toys packed in suitcases for road trips. Knuckles wrapped in tin foil under their hockey gloves. Climbing into the stands to attack heckling fans and not caring if they are pummeling the right person. They cheap shot every opposing player that comes within range on the ice or on the bench.
Even the organ player in the arena was not safe from these goons.
Who among us can’t recall watching Slapshot and then using a hockey stick to bash a friend over the head? Or ordering a pizza with our one phone call from jail the first time we were arrested for assault with a deadly weapon?
Don’t we all remember the beautiful female fans and the wild parties in the hotels that went on all night after our road games?
I know I’ll never forget the time a player from the other team looked at me so I hit him in the face without any warning and started a bench clearing melee before the game began. These are just a few of the great memories Ihave from the third grade. Oh, good times. I owe them all to the Hansons.
This is not to diminish the other hilarious sports characters portrayed over the years. Bob Uecker as Harry Doyle (juuust a bit outside) in Major League. Adam Sandler as Bobby Boucher (look who’s on TV, Mama… it’s the devil) in The Waterboy.
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