Best Hollywood Alternative Sports Movies of the 80′s and 90′s
21 Sep 2009, written by ZootPatrol.com 1 CommentsAs I was putting this together it dawned on me there isn’t a single commendable hollywood snowboarding movie out there. There are definitely a few movies that could of been of added to the list, hate it or love it you know Point Break could of made of an appearance. Any movies with 80′s and early 90′s style and music are always great to watch but the best part of these classics is the language. Watch a few of these and you surely be dropping lines like “gnarly” “totally tubular” “radical!” and “totally awsome!”. Don’t expect any creative plot lines though every movie is about a hotshot chasing some bodacious babe revolving around a sport. If MMA is an alternative sport, then maybe karate kid should of been added.
Gleaming the Cube (1989) Christian Slater in his prime as a skateboarder trying to revenge his bros death. This movie sparked kids all over the country to try hanging on to a car riding their boards. If you look close you will see a 17 year old Tony Hawk and the entire Bones Brigade crew. After watching this who didn’t want a bedroom in an underground water tank in their backyard like Yabo!
Rad (1986) Hands down the best BMX movie ever made. Crew Jones is a hometown rider trying to make it with the big dogs while chasing the babelicious Lori Loughlin (Jesse’s babe from Full House). This movie has the best soundtrack of all the movies, “Send Me an Angel” and “Thunder in Your Heart” are songs you should definitely have on your ipod.
Rad Trailer plus ever see people Dance on bikes? Send Me an Angel Scene
North Shore (1987) The story of a kid who surfs wave pools in Arizona trying to become a pro on North Shore Oahu. His sidekick character “Turtle” is probably one the best sidekicks ever. He also plays a member of the Boda Zafa’s crew in Point Break.
Airborne (1993) One of Jack Blacks first mainstream appearances. Mitchell Goosen is a SoCal surfer living in Cincinatti for the winter. The locals don’t like his laid back attitude but when they realize he can rip it on a pair of roller blades the respect comes. If you’ve seen it you will agree it’s Seth Greens best comedic performance ever. Every kid wanted to strap on a pair of blades and take on the biggest hill in their town or “Devils Backbone” after watching this. CHILL BRA!
Side Out (1990) Babes in high thigh bikinis and VolleyBall in the SoCal sun! Enough said. Trailer is all bikini babes love it!
Aspen Extreme (1993) Couple of local mountain skiers move to Aspen to become ski instructors and mingle the parties of the rich and famous. One guy falls in love and the other ends up running naked in the streets with a coke problem only to be reunited and then our sidekick dies in an avalanche. Besides the coke and dying in an avalanche this movie sparked me and my best friends life plan for a few years.
Usain Bolt World Record Don’t Have Shit On This Girl!
13 Sep 2009, written by ZootPatrol.com 1 CommentsBack in August Usain Bolt crushed his own 100 meter dash record at the world track and field championships in Berlin, Germany. Running an amazing 9.58 beating his previous 9.69 record from the Beijing Olympics. Thats pretty impressive but he don’t have shit on this female Cheetah who broke the ground speed record for any mammal last week. Sarah the Cheetah from the Cincinatti Zoo ran the 100 meter’s in 6.13 seconds, check out the video.
Nike SB- Today Was A Good Day
10 Aug 2009, written by Riz 1 CommentsTo celebrate the release of Paul Rodriguez’s third shoe, Nike SB has produced a new commercial titled “Today Was a Good Day.” This is the newly released extended version which features Eric Koston, Kobe Bryant, Ice Cube, Lance Mountain and Theotis Beasley. It starts off the same way as Cubes original “Today Was a Good Day” video, and follows P-Rod and his friends though L.A. If Nike keeps putting in this kind of effort with each release of a new P-Rod skate shoe then I will be happy. Enjoy!
NCAA Tournament 2009…..The perfect sheet. A total pipe dream?
19 Mar 2009, written by ZootPatrol.com 0 CommentsI have this buddy that for years when we were kids, claimed to have picked a perfect grid for the NCAA tourney when he was like 10 years old, it was his claim to fame every year during tournament time. You may have a similar story or have heard one through the grapevine. So in case you are wondering, what are the odds on picking a perfect bracket? They are 1 in 18,446,744,073,709,551,616, yea thats quintillion! I didn’t even know that was a word!
In fact I did some research, pretty much just googled, but there is no known account of a perfect grid ever being picked. I mean what are the odds on something like that evading the biggest search engine on the planet.
So this year when you’re lured to ads like yahoo’s “win a million dollars for picking the perfect bracket!” don’t waste your time. Cause they know you aint winning and they are just collecting your info to sell to their advertisers. And don’t stress yourself out too much trying to fill out the brackets for the office pool either, but at least you have a chance to make some money.
But doesn’t it seem like every year some chick who just picks the higher seeds ends up winning anyway. Good luck you ball bags!
