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Posted October 24, 2008 on Mark's Blog:
Famous Athletes in Movies
In this quiz, we list 26 well-known movies, each of which starred a famous athlete (sometimes in a cameo role). How many can you name?

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Ace Ventura Dan Marino
Airplane! Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Blazing Saddles Alex Karras
Dodgeball Lance Armstrong
Dumb and Dumber Cam Neely
Ernest Goes to Camp Lyle Alzado
Firestorm Howie Long
From Dusk till Dawn Fred Williamson
He Got Game Ray Allen
Kazaam Shaquille O'Neal
Major League Bob Uecker
My Giant Gheorghe Muresan
Philadelphia Julius Erving
Police Academy Bubba Smith
Pride of the Yankees Babe Ruth
Rocky Carl Weathers
Scrooged Mary Lou Retton
Singles Xavier McDaniel
Smokey & the Bandit Joe Klecko
Stone Cold Brian Bosworth
The Dirty Dozen Jim Brown
The Goonies John Matuszak
The Longest Yard Ray Nitschke
The Princess Bride Andre the Giant
The Towering Inferno O.J. Simpson
Something About Mary Brett Favre

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  • Dewey
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    Dewey said October 24, 2008

    You forgot Naked Gun!

    Great quiz, though.
  • Mark
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    Mark said October 24, 2008

    I thought about it, but I left it out cause it would have been ambiguous -- would the answer be O.J, or Reggie, or Jim Palmer, or Jay Johnstone?

  • tocon11 said October 24, 2008

    what about necessary roughness????

  • DaMiz511 said October 25, 2008

    no Space Jam?!?!
  • ArrowheadAdam
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    ArrowheadAdam said October 26, 2008

    Great list. I tanked it. Kingpin would have been a good add.

  • djags45 said October 26, 2008

    Random note: Roger Clemens was also in dumb and dumber. He's one of the guys that wants to beat Jim Carrey up in the diner.
  • gobirdsPHILLY
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    gobirdsPHILLY said October 27, 2008

    mighty ducks as well
  • ovwdurant

    ovwdurant said October 27, 2008

    What sport did Carl Weathers play? I tried Roberto Duran who was a sparring partner for Rocky (maybe in Rocky 2), and tried Joe Frazier who played himself. Also Steve Yeager was the hitting coach in Major League and was the extra who was the catcher who was ran over in the Indians winning montage
  • mcbrink26

    mcbrink26 said October 27, 2008

    Roger Clemens is actually in Kingpin.

    Carl Weathers was a Raiders LB.
  • malinen23

    malinen23 said October 27, 2008

    I managed the get 14, this was another great quiz.

  • tebow4prez said October 28, 2008

    Ray Nitschke in the Longest Yard? What about Michael Irvin and Bert Reynolds (FSU player)

  • buck_i79 said October 30, 2008

    the original Longest Yard, not the Adam Sandler re-do.
    • ovwdurant

      ovwdurant replied October 31, 2008

      Burt Reynolds was in the original Longest Yard

  • SeattleAce said April 21, 2009

    Pete Vukovich was also in Major League
  • rk88bulldog

    rk88bulldog said April 23, 2009

    Terry Bradshaw was also in Smoky and the Bandit

  • phillysbc said May 28, 2009

    11, that was not easy
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