Avery Flynn | Top Five Sexy Football Movie Heroes

I’m a sucker for a sports movie. So it was a real hardship *insert eye roll* to watch some of my favorite football movies when it came to prepping for writing HOT DARE, my latest novella centering around a sexy football player stuck on a three-day Miami Thunder fan cruise with his one-time fling. Here are my top five favorites.

1. Game Plan - Cocky, selfish and self-centered, Joe Kingman is about as far away from a hero as you can get. But once his secret daughter brazens her way into his life (and bedazzles his dog and championship football), well things begin to change. Sure it’s a kids’ movie, but Game Plan is one of my all time favorite football movies based on Dwayne Johnson’s muscles and charm alone. Add in that he sings and I’m all in.

2. Jerry McGuire - Okay, okay. I know. Tom Cruise. But forget the couch jumping and think about Jerry McGuire - super agent, man lost and finally found. His transformation gets me every time. And while I love “you complete me,” the go-to romantic movie in this movie for me is the kiss at the door, the first one. It gives me the fizzy happy butterflies every time.

3. Best of Times - An ‘80s movie that has held up remarkably well. The Fab Mr. Flynn and I watched it again for the first time in years a few weeks ago and I laughed so hard. Also, I was reminded of just how incredibly hot Kurt Russell is as former high school football great Reno Hightower. Robin Williams may be the comedian, but Kurt gets some of the funniest lines—especially when he’s trying to win back his wife.

4. The Replacements - I can’t help it I’m a Keanu Reeves fan for life. I just love him. The Replacements is not a good movie. Do not be fooled by it making this list, but if there’s a football movie and Keanu is in it, then it’s making my top five.

5. Wildcats - A Goldie Hawn classic - and no that is NOT an oxymoron. The story of a woman raised on football who finally gets her chance to coach high school football. I loved this movie as a kid and while it hasn’t held up as well as I’d hoped, I still love Goldie’s character Molly McGrath. And as far as sexy football heroes … Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes may be playing high school students but I promise they are not and are at prime hottie.

How about you? What are your favorite football movies and who are your favorite sports romance football heroes?

Looking for a little sports romance fix? Check out HOT DARE. It’s a part of Carly Phillips’ Dare to Love world and is set in Miami with cameos from some of her beloved characters. Do you dare?

About HOT DARE

He shows some of his best moves off the field.

Hell is a Miami Thunder fan cruise to the Bahamas—at least, that’s how Colt “45” Butler sees it. But with his job as the team’s starting linebacker in question, he’s willing to do whatever it takes to prove he’s a team player. Plus, the prospect of having his one-night Vegas fling, Angie Diaz, as his VIP liaison for the cruise just might make the whole ordeal tolerable. All he needs it to get her back in his bed for some Vegas-rules fun on the high seas.

Cheap wine and expensive ice cream, that’s how anyone fool enough to get involved with a Thunder football player always drowns their sorrows after getting dumped. Angie Diaz isn’t about to become one of the many—no matter how close she got to the look-but-don’t-touch line with the hot linebacker. Mixing business and pleasure with Colt is one dare her heart can’t afford to take…but being with him day and night is making is a dare she can’t resist.

"HOT DARE is a well-crafted, fast-paced story that flows seamlessly..." Fresh Fiction Reviewer Monique Daoust. Read our full review here.

About Avery Flynn

Avery Flynn has three slightly-wild children, loves a hockey-addicted husband and is desperately hoping someone invents the coffee IV drip.

She fell in love with romance while reading Johanna Lindsey's Mallory books. It wasn't long before Avery had read through all the romance offerings at her local library. Needing a romance fix, she turned to Harlequin's four books a month home delivery service to ease the withdrawal symptoms. That worked for a short time, but it wasn't long before the local book stores' staffs knew her by name.

Avery was a reader before she was a writer and hopes to always be both. She loves to write about smartass alpha heroes who are as good with a quip as they are with their *ahem* other God-given talents. Her heroines are feisty, fierce and fantastic. Brainy and brave, these ladies know how to stand on their own two feet and knock the bad guys off theirs.