Top 18 Sports Scenes from Non-Sports Movies/Televisions Shows (Video)

We all know the top all-time scenes from sports movies.

Robert Redford's massive home run at the end of The Natural. Kevin Costner playing catch with his dad in Field of Dreams. The boys from Perriman coming up just one yard short in Friday Night Lights.

Scenes that will live on forever.

An idea came to me. If those are the top sports scenes from sports movies, what are the top sports scenes from non-sports movies? There has to be hundreds of those, right? And some pretty darn good ones too.

The first one that came to mind was the numerous softball scenes from A Few Good Men. They really do a great job of breaking up the monotony of all of the courtroom scenes and lawyer lingo. They're also damn funny.

So that was the scene that began my quest to find the top sports-related scenes in non-sports movies or television shows. 

I hope you enjoy what I've selected as the best of the best.

Daniel Kaffee's Baseball Practice in "A Few Good Men"

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A Few Good Men has to be one of the most underrated movies of all time. 

Not only does it offer up some of the top movie quotes ever ("you can't handle the truth"), it also had a few that inspired some of the top SportsCenter quotes of all time, including, "you wan't me on that wall, you need me on that wall."

More than a few of the movie's best scenes occur on the baseball field, where Tom Cruise's character, Lt. Daniel Kaffee, is preoccupied with getting his Naval squad team ready for the upcoming game against Bethesda Medical.

Tom Brady Golfing Cameo on "Entourage"

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One of the most hyped cameos in Entourage history involved Tom Brady joining the boys for a round of charity golf.

Can you imagine a grouping of Tom Brady, Mark Wahlberg, Johnny Drame, Vincent Chase and Turtle?

Hard to top that.

The setup for the scene is this: Turtle, who is dating Jamie-Lynn Sigler, is a rabid Giants fan and looking to shove the team's Super Bowl victory down Brady's throat. The rest of the crew doesn't think he has the cajones to stand up to, or tell off, Brady.

He eventually gathers the confidence to, only to be caught off-guard by Brady's offer to join him and his wife supermodel Gisele Bundchen for dinner.

Wladimir Klitschko/Lennox Lewis Fight in "Ocean's Eleven"

With a big-name cast that included Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Andy Garcia, Bernie Mac, Matt Damon, Elliot Gould, Don Cheadle, Casey Affleck and Scott Caan, it's no surprise that Steven Soderbergh, the film's director, was able to get a few big-name athletes involved as well.

Those athletes being Wladimir Klitschko and Lennox Lewis, two boxers who never actually fought in real life, but who agreed to take part in the film. Interestingly enough, Lewis' final fight of his career came against Wladimir's brother Vitali.

For those of you who haven't seen the flick, first off, you should be shot. Second, the fight is the backdrop for Ocean's crew to steal $163 million from the bank-vault of casino owner Terry Benedict, played superbly by Andy Garcia.

The Entire Basketball Episode from "The Office"

This episode marked the beginning of an astronomical climb for The Office, and was, without a doubt, the best episode from a rather mediocre first season.

Michael Scott, played by Steve Carell, organizes a staff basketball game down in the warehouse that eventually turns into a competition between Roy and Jim, the latter of whom is silently fighting for Pam's affection, while she is in fact engaged to the former.

The episode is hilarious for so many reasons—first and foremost Michael's idiotic assumption that because he is an African-American, the overweight Stanley will be an exceptional basketball player.

The Henley Sequence from "The Social Network"

One of the best scenes from one of the best movies of 2010, the so-called "Henley Sequence" from The Social Network was not only an awesome feat of filmmaking, but also of editing, which, oh, by the way, it won an Oscar for.

The flow of the music with the scenes taking place on screen worked great together, making it one of the movie's top scenes.

Single Ladies Touchdown Play on "Glee"

No matter what you think of Glee—love it or hate it—you have to give big props to creator Ryan Murphy and his writing team for consistently coming up with fresh ideas like this one.

The football team is in a major funk and hasn't won a game in years.

The coach finally caves and takes the advice of the glee club director and its star member, putting the squad through dance routines in order to get them to loosen up.

This pivotal scene takes place near the end of the episode, and plays off of Beyonce's "Single Ladies" song and video.

Crabcakes and Football from "The Wedding Crashers"

So many things stand out about this scene.

For starters, there's the numerous quotable lines, such as:

"Big tree fall hard, huh?"

"Hot route, hot route!"

"That's what we call a sacked lunch, num num num num num!"

Then there's the ridiculous intensity that Bradley Cooper's character brings to the screen.

There's also the force with which Vince Vaughn hits the ground.

Toss in the ridiculous cuteness of Rachel McAdams, and it's one of the top scenes from a hilariously epic movie.

Mulder Teaches Scully How to Hit a Baseball on "The X-Files"

The show that practically shaped my childhood, the X-Files contained numerous sports references throughout the years.

For starters, one of the main characters, Scully, was named after legendary game-announcer Vin Scully of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

One of the best episodes in the entire series was "The Unnatural," a baseball-themed episode directed by David Duchovny himself. The episode revolves around an African-American baseball player from the 1950s who is actually an alien, and the police officer assigned to protect him from death threats as well as an alien bounty-hunter.

Sounds plausible, right?

This scene ends the episode, as Mulder teaches Scully one of the most important things a person can learn...how to hit a baseball. 

Dumbest, Fastest SoB Alive in "Forrest Gump"

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Say what you will about the quality of this video, but very few sports fans can forget this scene from the classic 1994 movie Forrest Gump.

In this particular scene, Gump returns a kick-off for a touchdown in front of a character who is presumably Bear Bryant and at least 80,000 Alabama faithful.

Almost as classic is the one that precedes it in the movie, where Gump breaks onto the high school football field while running away from some bullying goons. He outruns both the offense and the defense, with Bryant watching.

The Wrap-Up Baseball Scene from "Band of Brothers"

A fitting tribute to one of the most impressive military units in history, Band of Brothers redefined how military movies and television were done.

This scene served as an epilogue of sorts for the series, narrated by Damian Lewis who played Major Richard Winters.

Enough said.

Baltimore (and the Super Bowl) Get Nuked in "The Sum of All Fears"

While The Sum of All Fears wasn't exactly all it was cracked up to be with Ben Affleck trying, and failing, to fill the shoes of Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan, one lasting memory from the flick is the destruction of a stadium in Baltimore which is playing host to a fictional Super Bowl.

In the book, the game takes place between Minnesota and Miami. It also takes place in Denver.

You Shot Derek Jeter, from "The Other Guys"

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Granted, this isn't much of a "sports scene," but, in my humble opinion, it was one of the better scenes from a movie that wasn't nearly as good as I expected it to be.

I'm sure legions of Will Ferrell fans disagree. 

The idea that Mark Wahlberg's character suffered a demotion for shooting one of the greatest Yankees ever in the midst of a pennant race was genius, and kudos to Jeter for playing along, even if his dialogue was less than impressive.

Let the man stick to razor commercials.

Boston Red Sox Win the World Series on "Lost"

After three years of wondering whether or not the famous castaways from Oceanic Flight 815 were actually dead or whether a world outside of their island even existed, we were given proof from the leader of The Others, Ben, that not only did the world still exist, but life was going on just as it was in the real world.

And what better way to reveal this fact to Jack than by showing him the final out of the Boston's first World Series victory since 1918.

Enthusiasms Speech from "The Untouchables"

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Also a bit of a stretch as a "sports scene," but certainly more of one than Derek Jeter's cameo in The Other Guys.

One of my favorite movies of all time, The Untouchables is a classic.

It has a great cast, including Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, a very young Andy Garcia and Robert De Niro as the infamous Al Capone.

In one of the movie's best scenes, De Niro pulls out a baseball bat and gives a speech to his top cronies about the parallels between his favorite "enthusiasm," baseball, and all of his illegal activities.

It's a very light-hearted scene.

Until he bashes one of his guy's head in with said baseball bat.

Gas Mask Football in "Jarhead"

Easily one of the best scenes in another underrated flick, the "gas mask football" scene in Jarhead is a great example of how to make the best use of your life-saving equipment while training for a war in the desert.

Almost as good as the scene in which the Marines play tackle football in 100-plus degree heat in full chemical warfare gear is the following one in which they all strip down for the television cameras in order to embarrass their unit commander, Jamie Foxx.

Sadly, no clips of either scene could be found on the web, so feel free to check out the movie on DVD.

Robbing Fenway Park in "The Town"

It only seems fitting that director/actor/writer Ben Affleck's second full-feature film made its U.S. debut at Fenway Park, considering the fact that the film's final major scene takes place in, under, and around the famous stadium in Boston.

The plot has Affleck's crew, which includes Jeremy Renner, pretending to be cops in order to break into Fenway's control room where they keep all the cash that comes in during baseball games. Everything goes wrong of course, when Jon Hamm shows up to spoil the party.

The heist may not have worked out, but kudos to Affleck for even attempting such a daunting, yet amazingly creative, task.

Ain't No Boxing Like Air Force Boxing from "Broken Arrow"

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John Woo knows how to film action sequences, and he hit the nail right on the head with the opening scene from his 1996 cult classic, Broken Arrow.

The scene intertwines the credits with a boxing match between main characters John Travolta and Christian Slater.

The fight, and the 20 dollars that the winner receives, gets more than a few mentions throughout the remainder of the film.

If only a better video of the scene existed on the internet.

Embarrassing Colin in "Made of Honor"

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Even I have to admit, Made of Honor is one of the more tolerable chick-flicks out there.

It has plenty of manly scenes, none more so than the one where Patrick Dempsey's character takes advantage of his best friend's fiance on the basketball court.

Until Colin learns how to dunk, that is.

"Why don't you guys all do it?" Colin asks.