Draft Day (2014)
If you haven’t seen “Draft Day” drop everything you are doing and start watching it now. It’s absolutely ridiculous. If you know anything about the draft, trades, and the NFL in general, the plot can be laugh-out-loud funny sometimes. If Kevin Costner was the general manager of the Browns, they would have won at least five Super Bowls by now. He’s that good of a drafter man.
Varsity Blues (1999)
A classic movie for any older millennial, James Van Der Beek does not want your life — you said that in an accent didn’t you. The story about a high school football team essentially going against its hard-line coach — played by Jon Voigt — is quintessential nineties early-two-thousands.
Friday Night Lights (2004)
Directed by Peter Berg and based on Buzz Bissinger’s amazing non-fiction book about the 1998 Permian High School football team, this movie was many folks first introduction to high school football in Texas — outside of Varsity Blues of course.