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 (main topic)
- This Index Knows Kung-Fu (martial arts)
- Wrestling Tropes (professional wrestling)
- Academic Athlete
- Accidental Athlete
- Animal Athlete Loophole
- Artistic License – Sports
- Athletically Challenged
- Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity
- Bad Guys Play Pool
- Baseball Episode
- Beastly Bloodsports
- The Benchwarmer
- Bested at Bowling
- Big Game
- The Big Race
- Bizarre and Improbable Golf Game
- Black Boxer Stereotype
- Blood Sport
- Bowled Over
- Bowling for Ratings
- The Boxing Episode
- Canadian Equals Hockey Fan
- Calling Your Shots
- Career-Ending Injury
- Casual Sports Jersey
- Casualty in the Ring
- Cheaters Never Prosper
- Chariot Race
- Creepy Gym Coach
- Crippling the Competition
- Crowd Chant
- Crowd Surfing
- Cuckoolander Commentator
- Cue the Billiard Shot
- David Versus Goliath
- Defeating the Cheating Opponent
- Deliberately Jumping the Gun
- Desperate Object Catch
- Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
- Disqualification-Induced Victory
- Doomed Autographed Item
- Down to the Last Play
- Drafting Mechanic
- Drench Celebration
- Dumb Jock
- Epic Race
- Every Year They Fizzle Out
- Extreme Sports Plot
- Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
- Fictional Sport
- Fitness Nut
- Five-Aces Cheater
- Football Fight Song
- Football Hooligans
- Game-Breaking Injury
- Game of Nerds
- Gaming Clan
- "Gender-Normative Parent" Plot
- Going Home Again: Making it to the big leagues, flunking, and returning home in shame or to clear the mind.
- Golden Snitch
- Gretzky Has the Ball
- Hard Work Fallacy
- Hockey Fight
- Hold Up Your Score
- Home Stage
- Huddle Power
- Huddle Shot
- Imposed Handicap Training
- Improbable Sports Skills
- International Showdown by Proxy
- Jackie Robinson Story
- Jerk Jock
- Jock Dad, Nerd Son
- Jump Rope Blunders
- Loser Team Mascot
- Lovable Jock
- Make Games, Not War
- Mini-Golf Episode
- Miracle Rally
- Muggle Sports, Super Athletes
- "No Rules" Racing
- Obstacle Ski Course
- Obsessive Sports Fan
- One Season Athlete
- Opposing Sports Team
- Ordered to Cheat
- Outclassed at the Gym
- 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: A character sees as meaningless anything other than placing first in a competition.
- Second Prize: A character was expecting a different outcome in a competition.
- Severed Head Sports
- Sled Dogs Through the Snow
- Slow and Steady Wins the Race
- Slow Clap
- Snooty Sports
- Sports Dad
- Sports Hero Backstory
- Sports Widow
- Super Ringer
- Take Me Out at the Ball Game
- Team Spirit
- There Are No Rules
- Throwing the Fight
- Tiebreaker Round
- Training Montage
- Underdogs Never Lose
- Unnecessary Roughness
- Wacky Racing
- Who Needs Overtime?
- The Wildcats
- Win One for the Gipper
- You Go, Girl!
