Not a football competition again! We've got weeks of this! "I wanna manage it!" "What're we gonna call it?" "He's no good! He can't be in it!" "Someone's dropped out! You'll have to step in at the last minute!" "Cor! I never knew you was good at football!" PLEASE!!!
Let us tell you the ending to every sports movie ever made except Rocky, Cool Runnings and The Bad News Bears: they win by 1 point.
Tropes found primarily in Sports Stories. See also: Victory and Defeat.
Tropes
- Academic Athlete
- Accidental Athlete
- Animal Athlete Loophole
- Artistic License – Sports
- Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity
- Baseball Episode
- Beastly Bloodsports
- Bested At Bowling
- Big Game
- The Big Race
- Billy Elliot Plot
- Bizarre and Improbable Golf Game
- Bowling for Ratings
- The Boxing Episode
- Canadian Equals Hockey Fan
- Calling Your Shots
- Career-Ending Injury
- Casualty in the Ring
- Cheaters Never Prosper
- Crippling the Competition
- Crowd Chant
- Crowd Surfing
- David Versus Goliath
- Desperate Object Catch
- Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
- Disqualification-Induced Victory
- Down to the Last Play
- Every Year They Fizzle Out
- Extreme Sport Excuse Plot
- Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
- Fictional Sport
- Game-Breaking Injury
- Game of Nerds
- Gaming Clan
- Going Home Again
- Golden Snitch
- Gretzky Has the Ball
- Hard Work Fallacy
- Hockey Fight
- Hold Up Your Score
- Huddle Power
- Huddle Shot
- Improbable Sports Skills
- International Showdown by Proxy
- Jackie Robinson Story
- Miracle Rally
- Obstacle Ski Course
- Opposing Sports Team
- Ordered to Cheat
- Paintball Episode
- Paralysis by Analysis
- Passionate Sports Girl
- Picked Last
- Post Game Retaliation
- Pro Wrestling Episode
- Pro Wrestling Is Real
- Pseudolympics
- Put Me In, Coach!
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
- Raw Eggs Make You Stronger
- Redemption Quest
- Ring Out
- Rugby Is Slaughter
- Save Our Team
- Second Place Is for Losers
- Severed Head Sports
- Slow Clap
- Spiritual Sports
- Sports Hero Backstory
- Sudden Death
- Super Coach
- Super Ringer
- Team Spirit
- There Are No Rules
- Throwing the Fight
- Training Montage
- Underdogs Never Lose
- Unnecessary Roughness
- Wacky Racing
- Who Needs Overtime
- The Wildcats
- Win One For The Gipper
- You Go, Girl!
