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, Friday Night Lights, Cool Runnings and The Bad News Bears: they win by 1 point.
Tropes found primarily in Sports Stories. See also: Victory and Defeat.
Tropes
Also see:
- Sports Stories (list of works)
- Wrestling Tropes (pro wrestling)
- Academic Athlete
- Accidental Athlete
- Animal Athlete Loophole
- Artistic License – Sports
- Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity
- Baseball Episode
- Beastly Bloodsports
- The Benchwarmer
- Bested at Bowling
- Big Game
- The Big Race
- Bizarre and Improbable Golf Game
- Black Boxer Stereotype
- Bowling for Ratings
- The Boxing Episode
- Canadian = Hockey Fan
- Calling Your Shots
- Career-Ending Injury
- Casual Sports Jersey
- Casualty in the Ring
- Cheaters Never Prosper
- Creepy Gym Coach
- Crippling the Competition
- Crowd Chant
- Crowd Surfing
- Cuckoolander Commentator
- David vs. Goliath
- Deliberately Jumping the Gun
- Desperate Object Catch
- Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
- Disqualification-Induced Victory
- Doomed Autographed Item
- Down to the Last Play
- Drench Celebration
- Epic Race
- Every Year They Fizzle Out
- Extreme Sport Excuse Plot
- Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
- Fictional Sport
- Five-Aces Cheater
- Football Hooligans
- Game-Breaking Injury
- Game of Nerds
- Gaming Clan
- "Gender-Normative Parent" Plot
- Going Home Again
- Golden Snitch
- Gretzky Has the Ball
- Hard Work Fallacy
- Hockey Fight
- Hold Up Your Score
- Huddle Power
- Huddle Shot
- Imposed Handicap Training
- Improbable Sports Skills
- International Showdown by Proxy
- Jackie Robinson Story
- Jock Dad, Nerd Son
- Loser Team Mascot
- Make Games, Not War
- Mini-Golf Episode
- Miracle Rally
- Muggle Sports, Super Athletes
- Obstacle Ski Course
- One Season Athlete
- Opposing Sports Team
- Ordered to Cheat
- Own Goal
- 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!
- The Quarterback
- 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
- Sled Dogs Through the Snow
- Slow and Steady Wins the Race
- Slow Clap
- Spiritual Sports
- Sports Dad
- Sports Hero Backstory
- Sports Widow
- Sudden Death
- Super Coach
- Super Ringer
- Take Me Out At The Ballgame
- 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!
