GAMEDAY MADNESS! OUR FAVORITE CINEMA SPORTING EVENTS.....

            One thing you won't find in the BQ's "About Me" blurbs - any mention of sports.  That's easy to explain.....our only contact with sports comes with the ones depicted in movies. We find sports in movies way easier to watch than the real thing.....movies usually try to juice up sporting events with melodramatic, comedic or downright catastrophic happenings. No droning play-by-play, no 500 breaks for commercials, no post-game wrap-ups by ex-athletes stuffed into network blazers.  Here's a few of our favorites.....feel free to chime in with some of your own....

The Absent Minded Professor (1961) and Son Of Flubber (1963)  In which Fred MacMurray's anti-gravity goo Flubber turns college basketball and football games into something closer to Harry Potter's Quidditch, with players hurling themselves as skyward as the gameballs involved. If Flubber was ever really invented, by now Tom Brady and the Patriots would have already steam-pressed it on to their cleats.....

Black Sunday (1977)  You can keep Beyonce, Lady GaGa and Bruce Springsteen.....when it comes to showstopping Super Bowl entertainment, nothing beats Bruce Dern in a blimp floating into the stadium with a bomb primed to spray everyone with steel spikes. Thank our lucky goalposts we have Robert Shaw, who's managed to crawl out of the Jaws' shark's mouth and put an end to Bruce before he babbles out any more angry Dern-isms....

Ronin (1998) We can't quite explain how two hours of adrenalin-pumping, tire screeching car chases somehow ends up at an ice skating show......where champion skater Katarina Witt takes a sniper bullet in the gut, thereby putting a crimp in her figure 8's. Maybe she pissed off Tonya Harding.....

Experiment In Terror (1962)  We normally find baseball as interesting to watch as the Traffic Cam channel's multiple views of I-95.....but this superb thriller enlivens a night game at San Francisco's Candlestick Park, by having its wheezing, asthmatic, psycho villain (Ross Martin) shoot it out with the FBI on the pitcher's mound......giving new meaning to ...'Yerrrrrr Out!"

Death Race 2000 (1975)  We can't live with the guilt of watching an actual NASCAR race....it's only a matter of time before you realize you're watching the cars go 'round n' 'round' 'n 'round, cause you're waiting for them for twirl in the air as they smash into each other. We much prefer this fictional, ultra-low budget trash where the drivers intentionally run over pedestrians to score the highest points......and major kudos to Sylvester Stallone, the first to rack up big points of the board by simply putting his car in reverse and squishing his entire pit crew. Sports at its finest.

             Have to stop now to pick up the chips 'n dip for the Super Bowl Sunday night.....we can only hope that pesky annoying game, doesn't often interrupt the flow of those funny commercials.....