🎬 Best sports movie that actually got the sport itself right

Most sports movies get the actual sport wrong in some obvious way once you have played it yourself even casually, dramatic slow motion goals that would never realistically happen, commentary dialogue nobody would genuinely say on air, physically impossible specific plays inserted purely for cinematic effect regardless of how the actual sport actually works. A friend who played competitively at a fairly serious level cannot even sit through most of them without loudly pointing out every single inaccuracy the entire way through. Rewatched one last weekend that genuinely nailed the small, unglamorous details instead, the specific way a coach actually talks during a timeout, the exact boring repetitive drudgery of real practice sessions, the small procedural rules casual viewers rarely even notice mattering that much in real competitive play. Even the locker room scenes felt properly lived in rather than staged purely for the camera. What made it work was clearly a production team that consulted actual current or former players rather than purely dramatizing everything for effect without regard for how the sport genuinely operates. Small specific details, like exactly how injuries are actually handled mid game, or how genuinely awkward a post match interview actually sounds compared to the polished version usually written for film, gave it a level of real credibility most similar films simply do not bother chasing. By contrast, a much more famous, bigger budget film in the exact same general genre gets almost every single actual rule wrong, to the point where I have genuinely seen people online debate whether the writers ever watched a real match of it themselves even once before writing the script. Which sports movie actually got the sport itself right for you, and which one made you wince the hardest at some completely unrealistic dramatic moment inserted purely for effect?

A sports movie about a local underdog team once got the small procedural details so right that former players from that exact same era apparently cried openly during the premiere screening, according to someone I personally know who was actually there that particular night watching it unfold with them right beside him in the third row near the back exit door.