A few weeks ago, my friend and confidant Tradd sent me a link to this article on SI's Extra Mustard listing the "25 Greatest Sports Movie Villains." Check it out. It's pretty fantastic, and includes video clips for most of them. Highlights for me are Cancer from Brian's Song (#2), Judge Smails from Caddyshack (#5), Johnny from Karate Kid (#7), Chong Li from Bloodsport (#19), and Jesus from Big Lebowski (#24). I would have also included:
-Roy Stalin from Better Off Dead, if that can be considered a sports movie (which I think it can, if you can put Big Lebowski on the list). First of all, his name is Stalin. Second, he's a giant dick. He's got that '80s prep inflection to his voice, where everything he says sounds condescending (and usually was). Stalin's imitation of a pig when Lane falls out of the kitchen at Pig Burgers makes you want to punch him through the TV screen. It's also the noise I use instead of "oink oink" to explain to my kids what a pig sounds like. I couldn't find a video clip of the pig sound, but here's our introduction to Stalin:
-Rod from Breaking Away. He was varsity swimmer and a member of Sigma Tau Omega's Little 500 team, drives a Mercedes convertible, has an explicit policy of not dating "dormies" that he didn't even adhere to, and after he and his frat brothers got into a rumble with the townies in the Union, he complained to IU president John Ryan that he just didn't think a team of non-students were good enough to compete in the Little 500. I couldn't find many scenes from Breaking Away online, so here is the trailer. Rod is the dick who calls Mooch "Shorty," thus instigating the aforementioned fight.
-ALS from Pride of the Yankees. You know, because it killed Lou Gehrig. Start at 3:54 of the clip below.
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